www.telmondis.fr NEWSLETTER > 2014/15 Opera Dance Documentary Concert Circus Cabaret & magic Theater EDITO In 1964, Jacques Demy’s film,“Les Parapluies de Cherbourg”, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival. This new semi-staged symphonic version premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris plunges us back into Michel Legrand’s timeless score, this time in the company SUMMARY of Natalie Dessay and Laurent Naouri. From the other side of Europe, Saint Petersburg’s OPERA 2 DANCE 22 Mariinsky Theatre, broadcasting on major > THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE PARIS-CHÂTELET > MARIINSKY THEATRE international cinema networks since this summer, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg ........ 2 La Bayadère ................................ 22 offers us its historic version of “La Bayadère” Anna Karenine ............................. 22 > MARIINSKY THEATRE and a new production of “War and Peace” War and Peace ............................... 3 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS from Graham Vick. Spectacular viewing! Ballet Evening at Paris Opera ..... 24 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS Daphnis et Chloé ......................... 25 The Paris Opera continues its collaboration with La Traviata ..................................... 4 Le Palais de Cristal...................... 26 Dances at a Gathering ................. 26 film director Benoît Jacquot and his production > OPÉRA DE LYON Psyché ......................................... 28 of “La Traviata” and above all proposes a Le Comte Ory ................................. 5 choreographic firework display devised by Paris > TATAR STATE ACADEMIC OPERA - KAZAN > ARENA DI VERONA The Golden Horde ....................... 28 Opera Director of Dance Brigitte Lefèvre, who is Carmen .......................................... 6 succeeded this year by Benjamin Millepied. > DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN > TEATRO LA FENICE VENISE The Nutcracker ............................ 30 The programme includes “Le Palais de Cristal” L’Africaine ......................................7 > BOLSHOI THEATRE by George Balanchine, “Dances at a Gathering” > TEATRO REAL MADRID Marco Spada ................................31 by Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky’s Brokeback Mountain ..................... 8 “Psyché”, Harald Lander’s “Etudes” and a Les Contes d’Hoffmann ................. 8 DOCUMENTARY 32 world première from the Palais Garnier: “The > OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE A Rose for Antonio Soler ............. 32 défilé of the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet” along Attila ............................................10 Carnivals around the World ......... 32 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail ....10 with the “little rats” from the Ballet School. Guillaume Tell ..............................12 L’Italiana in Algeri ........................13 CONCERT 33 Telmondis Distribution continues its travels Ludwig Van Beethoven Cycle, around the globe with “Brokeback Mountain” > FESTIVAL D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE The Nine Symphonies ..................33 and “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” from the Teatro Il Turco in Italia ............................14 Ariodante .....................................14 Real in Madrid, “Attila” staged by Ruggero WORK IN PROGRESS 34 Raimondi at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the > OPÉRA DE MONTE-CARLO Ernani ...........................................16 > DANCE new productions from the Festival d’Aix-en- Il Mondo della Luna .....................16 Sleeping Beauty ......................... 34 Provence and “Carmen” from the Verona Arena… Atvakhabar Rhapsodies ............. 34 > OPÉRA DE ROUEN HAUTE-NORMANDIE Tatjana ........................................ 34 Do not hesitate to visit our Internet site at Dido and Aeneas ..........................18 > CIRCUS La Damnation de Faust .................19 www.telmondis.fr and come and join us at 39th International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo ............... 34 the major international markets, MIP TV, > OPÉRA NATIONAL DU RHIN MIPCOM in Cannes, the IMZ Avant-Première Doctor Atomic .............................. 20 > OPERA The Queen of Spades ...................35 in Berlin, the Biarritz and Tokyo rendez-vous > SPECIAL EVENT Eugene Onegin .............................35 and also the Golden Prague Festival. Le Concert de Paris ......................21 La Cenerentola .............................35 Antoine Perset, CIO > Opera 2/3 THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE PARIS-CHÂTELET / MARIINSKY THEATRE Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Telmondis 2014 Théâtre musical de Paris-Châtelet World Premiere – Symphonic Version Years later, the now conspicuously wealthy Golden Palm in Cannes in 1964, Les Geneviève, travelling with her daughter, Parapluies de Cherbourg is a new genre Guy's child, accidentally runs into Guy at his in the French film world: the musical. A service station. While the two have only a cinematographic revolution, carried by brief conversation about the state of their the timeless music of Michel Legrand. respective lives, the conversation is clearly fraught with unspoken fondness and regret. Geneviève lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. Musical direction: Michel Legrand She and Guy, an auto mechanic, are secretly Book: Jacques Demy | in love and want to marry. Shortly after Music: Michel Legrand | this, Guy is drafted to serve the Algerian Stage director: Vincent Vittoz | War. Before leaving, Guy and Geneviève Set design: Vincent Vittoz and Jean-Jacques consummate their love for each other, Sempé | Costumes: Vanessa Seward | which results in her becoming pregnant. While Guy is away at war they drift apart. Starring Geneviève, strongly encouraged by her Geneviève: Marie Oppert | Guy: Vincent mother, accepts a marriage proposal from Niclo | Madame Emery: Natalie Dessay | Roland Cassard, a jewler, who has fallen Roland Cassard: Laurent Naouri | Madeleine: in love and has promised to bring up her Louise Leterme | Aunt Elise: Jasmine Roy child as his own. Guy is wounded and is | M. Dubourg & Aubin: Franck Vincent | discharged before his two-year term is up, Orchestre National d'Île-de-France | but when he returns to Cherbourg Geneviève has already married and moved away. He Production struggles with depression and anger, but A Coproduction by Telmondis, Théâtre Muscial eventually is healed by falling in love with de Paris-Châtelet with the partcipation and marrying Madeleine, a young woman of France Télévisions and the support of who had been caring for his dying aunt. Using the CNC | Directed by Denis Caïozzi | an inheritance from his aunt, Guy fulfills Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière | his ambition of opening a service station. Running time: 1x90’ | ©Photo: Marie-Noëlle Robert War and Peace Telmondis 2014 Mariinsky Theatre Opera in two acts by Sergei Prokofiev. Starring Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Andrei Bondarenko: Prince Andrei Bolkonsky Mendelssohn-Prokofieva after the | Aida Garifullina: Natasha Rostova | Yulia novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. Matochkina: Sonya | Larisa Diadkova: New production directed by Graham Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova | Sergei Vick. Conducted by Valery Gergiev. Aleksashkin: Count Ilya Rostov | Yevgeny Akimov: Pierre Bezukhov | Maria Maksakova: Based on the 19th century novel by Hélène Bezukhova | Ilya Selivanov: Anatol Tolstoy, the opera of War and Peace tells Kuragin | Edward Tsanga: Dolokhov | the story of young Natasha who falls for Yekaterina Sergeyeva: Princess Marya | dashing widower Prince Andrei. But his Gennady Bezzubenkov: Field-Marshal father disapproves of their proposed Mikhail Kutuzov | Vasily Gerello: Napoleon | union causing the match to be postponed. The Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus | Meanwhile Natasha’s head is turned by the charming Anatole Kuragin who neglects to Production mention that he is already married. This A Coproduction by Telmondis, the individual and personal story is overtaken Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo with the by political events as Napoleon’s army participation of France Télévisions, closes in on Russia, making war inevitable. M_MEDIA and the support of the CNC | Directed by Don Kent | Stage Director: Graham Vick Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière | Musical Director and Conductor: Running time: 1x190’ | Valery Gergiev | Production Designer: Paul Brown | Lighting Designer: Giuseppe Di Iorio | Choreographer: Maxim Petrov | ©Photo: N. Razina > Opera 4/5 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS / OPÉRA DE LYON La Traviata Idéale Audience 2014 Opéra national de Paris Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Musical direction: Francesco Ivan Ciampa Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Stage direction: Benoît Jacquot | based on the novel “La Dame aux Sets: Sylvain Chauvelot | Camélias” by Alexandre Dumas fils. Costumes: Christian Gasc | Lighting: André Diot | Poor Mariette Duplessis is dead... the Chorus master: Alessandro di Stefano | first woman I ever loved, and now she’s in goodness knows which cemetery, abandoned Starring to the maggots of the sepulchre! It’s as she Diana Damrau: Violetta Valéry | said to me fifteen months ago: “I won’t live: Anna Pennisi: Flora Bervoix | I’m a strange girl and I won’t be able to keep Cornelia Oncioiu: Annina | living a life I don’t know how to lead and that Francesco Demuro: Alfredo Germont | I don’t know how to bear either. Take me, lead Ludovic Tézier: Giorgio Germont | me wherever you want; I won’t bother you, Gabriele Mangione: Gastone | I sleep all day. In the evening, you’ll let me Fabio Previati: Il Barone Douphol | go to the theatre and at night you’ll do with Igor Gnidii: Il Marchese d’Obigny | me as you wish!” I’ve never told you of the Nicolas Testé: Dottore Grenvil | singular attachment I felt for