Tribute to Jerome Robbins
About the Event
Jerome Robbins considered the Paris Opera Ballet as his second home after the New York City Ballet. This production in his honour brings together works displaying the infinite diversity of his sources of inspiration and his genius on stage.
Be it in the energy of the large‐scale Glass Pieces or the intimate sweetness of Afternoon of a Faun and A Suite of Dances, there emerges that rare capacity to make bodies follow the flow in a living comprehension of music. As the celebrated ballet Fancy Free, a veritable theatrical portrait of an era, enters the repertoire, Robbins reveals another facet of his talent.
Cast / Production
Afternoon of a Faun
Music Claude Debussy
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Set design Jean Rosenthal
Costume design Irene Sharaff
Lighting design Jean Rosenthal
A Suite of Dances
Music Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Set design Jean Rosenthal
Costume design Irene Sharaff
Lighting design Jean Rosenthal
Cello Sonia Wieder‐Atherton
Fancy Free
Music Leonard Bernstein
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Set design Oliver Smith
Costume design Kermit Love
Lighting design Ronald Bates
Glass Pieces
Music Philip Glass
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Set design Jerome Robbins, Ronald Bates
Costume design Ben Benson
Lighting design Jennifer Tipton
Choreography Jerome Robbins
Conductor Valery Ovsyanikov
Les Étoiles, les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet
Paris Opera Orchestra
* Spectacle précédé du Défilé du Ballet