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Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Singer

Marie Cayeux

Soloists

Katharina Semmelbeck

Kamil Ben Hsain Lachiri

Eduard Ferenczi Gurban

Raphaël Jardin

Mathilde Le Petit

Albane Liger-Belair

Marie Lombard

Cécile Madelin

Julie Nemer

Axelle Saint-Cirel

Elisabeth Ternisien

Oleg Volkov

Choreographer

George Balanchine

Set designer

Jean Rosenthal

Lighting designer

Ronald Bates

Mark Stanley

Ballet Reasembling

Patricia Neary

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

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Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Conductor

David Molard Soriano

Chorus master

Stefano Visconti

Chœur d'enfants de l'Académie de musique Rainier III

Ballet

Jean-Christophe Maillot

Assistant choreographer

Bernice Coppieters

Costume designer

Jérôme Kaplan

Dominique Drillot

Video designer

Loic Van der Heyden

Academie Director

Sophie Koch

Balanchine & Maillot - La Valse & L’Enfant et les sortilèges - Académies lyriques

Monaco

Grimaldi Forum

Salle des Princes

Académie lyrique - L'Enfant et les sortilèges: L'Enfant et les sortilèges Ravel

Public

Valses nobles et sentimentales

La valse

The Child and the Spells

Cristina Pardo Ramírez

Approved

THE WALTZ & THE CHILD AND THE Spells
Balanchine & Maillot

The first academy will be dedicated to the French repertoire (in particular Ravel, Poulenc and Debussy) and to a special collaboration with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. The selected participants will appear alongside the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Ballet artists in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s new production of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, which will be staged next December 2023.

Created by Ravel in 1925 in Monte-Carlo to a libretto by Colette (whose 150th anniversary is being celebrated this year), L'Enfant et les Sortilèges was one of the favorite works of HSH Prince Rainier III. Jean-Christophe Maillot's new creation brings together 240 artists on stage to give substance to a large-format show that Ravel had already imagined in his time as a musical comedy before its time. Before unveiling this extraordinary creation, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will perform La Valse by George Balanchine: a return to the roots for this ballet given 20 years ago and of which Prince Rainier III was also fond.

240 ARTISTS ON STAGE!
50 dancers, 90 musicians, 100 singers

With the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra (dir. David Molard Soriano), The Monte-Carlo Opera Choir (dir. Stefano Visconti), The Lyric Academies of the Monte-Carlo Opera (with the support of the Cecilia Bartoli – Music Foundation), The Children's Choir of the Rainier III Academy of Music and Theater.

December 20
7:30 p.m.
December 21
7:30 p.m.
December 22
7:30 p.m.
December 23
7:30 p.m.
PLACE
Monaco - Grimaldi Forum - Salle des Princes

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