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2024 / AROP evening / Ballet
05 Dec.

Paquita

Première

    Opéra Bastille

    20h

    Duration
    2h05

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    20h00
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h55
  • 2nd part
    21h15
  • End of the performance
    22h05
  • Supper
    22h20

“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…

Paquita

Paquita - Pierre Lacotte

  • Music

    Édouard Deldevez
    (1817-1897)

  • Music

    Ludwig Minkus
    (1826-1917)

  • Conductor
    Mikhail Agrest

  • Choreography

    Pierre Lacotte
    after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa

  • Libretto

    Paul Foucher

  • Libretto

    Joseph Mazilier

  • Set design and Costume design

    Luisa Spinatelli

  • Lighting design

    Nicolas Fischtel

Cast

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Valentine
Colasante

Paquita

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Guillaume
Diop

Lucien d'Hervilly

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Pablo
Legasa

Iñigo

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Inès
McIntosh

Pas de trois - female soloist

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Marine
Ganio

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Francesco
Mura

Pas de trois - male soloist

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Naïs
Duboscq

Dona Serafina

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Arthus
Raveau

Le Comte d'Hervilly

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Matthieu
Botto

Don Lopez de Mendoza

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Fanny
Gorse

La Comtesse

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

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  • With the generous support of