Organization

Admin

Opéra National de Paris

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Paris Opera

Ballet

Paris Opera Ballet

Conductor

Vello Pähn

Stage director

Choreographer (+2)

Rudolf Nurejew

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Ezio Frigerio

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Franca Squarciapino

Lighting designer

Vinicio Cheli

Opéra Bastille

Choreographer

Dancer

Bleuenn Battistoni

Princess Aurora

Guillaume Diop

Prince Desire

Sae Eun Park

Paul Marque

Dorothée Gilbert

Dancer (+1)

Léonore Baulac

Marc Moreau

Valentine Colasante

Hannah O'Neill

Germain Louvet

Amandine Albisson

When Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris in 1961 on tour with the Kirov, shortly before he applied for political asylum, he captived audiences at the Palais Garnier in the role of the Prince in The Sleeping Beauty. Thirty years later, he proposed a new choreography of what he considered to be “the ballet of ballets” for the Paris Opera Ballet.

While retaining the spectacular enchantment of the ballet and the sparkling charm of Tchaikovsky’s music, he brought a new balance to Marius Petipa’s original choreography by giving more prominence to the male roles, particularly that of the Prince.

Absent from the Paris Opera stage for ten years, there is no doubt that Aurora and Désiré, the Lilac Fairy and the Blue Bird, not forgetting the terrible Carabosse, will fascinate new generations.

Fotod