AROP evening — Ballet

Paquita

05 Dec. 2024

  • 2h05 with 1 intermission
  • Première
  • Opéra Bastille
  • Cocktail attire

Paquita

Paquita - Pierre Lacotte

  • Conductor

    Mikhail Agrest

  • Choreography

    Pierre Lacotte
    after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa

  • Music

    Édouard Deldevez
    (1817-1897)

  • Music

    Ludwig Minkus
    (1826-1917)

  • Libretto

    Paul Foucher

  • Libretto

    Joseph Mazilier

  • Set design and Costume design

    Luisa Spinatelli

  • Lighting design

    Nicolas Fischtel

“When I recreate a ballet, I search for the fragrance of the period”, said dancer and choreographer Pierre Lacotte, who died in 2023. In Paquita, that perfume is the heady scent of Spain, mixed with elegant French fragrances.

In the Valley of the Bulls, near Saragossa occupied by Napoleon’s armies, Paquita, a young gypsy girl, refuses the advances of an aristocrat, Lucien d’Hervilly, because of her modest condition. But when she saves him from a plot hatched by the Spanish governor, she discovers that her origins are far nobler than she thought…

Pierre Lacotte, a lover of the Romantic repertoire, reconstructed Joseph Mazilier’s ballet in 2001. The work had enchanted Théophile Gautier when it premiered at the Paris Opera in 1846 but gradually fell into oblivion despite Marius Petipa’s new version in 1882. With its sumptuous sets and costumes, his Paquita portrays a picturesque Spain combining mime and characterful dances with dazzingly vivacious virtuoso technique.

With the Paris Opera Étoiles, Premières Danseuses, Premiers Danseurs and Corps de Ballet
With the participation of students from the Paris Opera Ballet School
The Paris Opera Orchestra

Paquita

Paquita - Pierre Lacotte

  • Paquita

    Valentine Colasante

  • Lucien d'Hervilly

    Guillaume Diop

  • Iñigo

    Pablo Legasa

  • 20:00

    First part

  • 20:55

    Intermission cocktail

  • 21:15

    Second part

  • 22:05

    End of the performance

  • 22:20

    Supper

Paquita (season 14/15)

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