(c) Opéra National de Paris Nocturnal Correspondences: Paris Opera Ballet
Paris, Palais Garnier
About the Event
Literature, music, women and love triangles: all these themes feature in the work of Cathy Marston, who has already explored such figures as Clara Schumann and Jacqueline Dupré. For her Paris Opera debut, the British choreographer brings together her favourite themes in a new creation dedicated to George Sand.
To music composed by Philip Feeney, she explores the passion between the writer and Frédéric Chopin, the mother‐daughter relationship and the artistic creative process.
In a subtle interplay of correspondences, her creation echoes Thierry Malandain’s Nocturnes (2014), a piece for 22 dancers making its debut in the Paris Opera’s repertoire.
Thierry Malandain combines the moods and fragility characteristic of Romanticism with the Danses macabres of the Middle Ages to evoke, in this ballet of poignant melancholy, the passage of time and our finitude.
Nocturnes
Entry to the répertoire
Creative team
Thierry Malandain
Choreography
Frédéric Chopin
Music (1810‐1849)
Jorge Gallardo
Costume design
Jean‐Claude Asquié
Lighting design
Creation
Creative team
Cathy Marston
Choreography dramaturgy and libretto
Frédéric Chopin
Music (1810‐1849)
Philip Feeney
Music (1954)
Edward Kemp
Dramaturgy, libretto
Patrick Kinmonth
Set design and costume design
Martin Gebhardt
Lighting design
With the Paris Opera Étoiles, First Soloists and Corps de Ballet
Address
Palais Garnier, 8, rue du Scribe, Paris, France — Google Maps
