Cultural event — Rehearsal
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DRESS REHEARSAL: The Rake's Progress
28 Nov. 2024
- Palais Garnier
Enter the heart of the creation and discover the artists at work!
The Paris National Opera offers Arop members the privilege of observing the work of the artists and the genesis of a production at different times: work sessions, pre-dress rehearsals and dress rehearsals.
The Rake's Progress
What if we were the true architects of our own failures ? Tom Rakewell could have lived happily ever after had he been content with his mutual love for Ann Trulove. But poverty and ambition lead him down the wrong path: from brothel to gambling house, from absurd marriage to disgrace, ruin and madness, our hero, manipulated by the evil Nick Shadow, travels all the roads of vice and degradation.
Inspired by a series of moralist engravings by the painter William Hogarth, Igor Stravinsky created his first opera in English at La Fenice in Venice in 1951. With its neo-classical style, borrowing from 18th-century codes, the composer disappointed some of his contemporaries in search of the avant-garde.
Yet it was a bold work, particularly in terms of rhythm, that the composer of The Rite of Spring created. Olivier Py's flamboyant staging sheds a bleak light on this Faustian opera haunted by temptation and blindness.
Conditions of access to dress rehearsal:
- The presentation of your Arop card is mandatory to collect your ticket at the Arop control on the same evening.
- At the Palais Garnier and the Opéra Bastille, we have "Protocol" seats.
- Seats are assigned by membership level: Founding Patron members (Mécène Fondateurs) have priority over Patron members (Mécènes).
- Seats are assigned by order of booking arrival (first booking, first served) and cannot be guaranteed in case of late registration.
- Seating is free in the reserved areas: we advise you to arrive one hour before the start of the rehearsal.
Download the details of the reservation conditions and the access conditions.
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