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Ballet National De Chine theatre tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
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Les Defants Du Paradis theatre tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
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Hommage A Jerome Robbins theatre tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
The Palais Garnier is celebrating his life achievements this September with evenings of four ballets with the Corps de Ballet and the Orchestra de l'Opéra National de Paris.
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La Fiancee Vendue theatre tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
This light-hearted and brilliant work is conducted by the Czech Jiri Belohlavek.
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New York City Ballet theatre tickets, L’Opéra de la Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
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Raymonda theatre tickets, Opera Garnier, Paris
Music By: Alexandre Glazounov
Choreography By: Rudolf Noureev daprs Marius Petipa (Opra national de Paris, 1983)
Costumes By: Lumires Serge Peyrat
Musical Director: Kevin Rhodes
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Premire December 1st at 7.30pm
Performances on December 3,5,6,7,9,10,12,15,16,17,19,20,22, 23,,24,26,27,29,30,31 at 7.30pm
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La Petite Renarde Rusee opera tickets, L’Opéra de la Bastille (Bastille Opera), Paris
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Orfeo Ed Euridice opera tickets, Státní opery Praha (Prague State Opera), Prague
• Choreography: J. Ďurovčík
Part of the Prague Spring Interntional Music Festival 2009
In the Gluck opera, Eurydice dies two times, but thanks to the supreme art of her husband, the Thracian musician Orpheus, and not least also due to the intervention of gods (unlike in the story’s tragic ending in the classical Greek mythology), she is salvaged. Between 1741 and 1779, Christoph Willibald Gluck composed a total of 45 operas (not counting reworked French versions of Orfeo/Orphée and Alceste, and the later, Viennese version of the opera Ezio), among which Orfeo ed Euridice occupies a pride of place: indeed, it marked the historic beginning of opera’s modern-age development. For Gluck, the crucial turning point came in the form of his meeting the Italian man of letters, Ranieri de’ Calzabigi and the latter’s revolutionary premise that the character of music should be governed by the content of the plot. Orfeo came to embody the three main premises of this reform: namely, simplicity, veracity, and naturalness, which translated into clear-cut, folk-inspired melodies rather than elaborate coloraturas, psychological individuation of characters, more room assigned to the choir, and a new concept of the orchestra.
The premiere, in Vienna’s Hoftheater, on October 5, 1762, with the composer conducting, got only a fairly moderate reception, but from the opera’s production at Parma in 1769 onwards, it embarked on a triumphant international trajectory. Orfeo ed Euridice’s last Prague production so far was mounted by the National Theatre, on whose stage it ran from 1959–1961 featuring the libretto’s Czech translation by Vítězslav Nezval. This outstanding work by the great German composer who spent his youth in Bohemia and who conducted in Prague among others the world premieres of his operas Ezio (1750) and Issipile (1751), will be staged at the Prague State Opera by the renowned Slovak choreographer and director, Ján Ďurovčík.
Performed in Italian with Czech and English captions.
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Swan Lake theatre tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
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Salome opera tickets, Magyar Állami Operaház (Hungarian State Opera House), Budapest
A banquet is held in the palace. Salome, daughter of Herod’s second wife Herodias from her first marriage, flees the celebrations. When she hears the prophet’s voice, she longs to see him. She wheedles the captain Narraboth into disobeying the tetrarch’s orders and fetching the prisoner out of the cistern in which he is imprisoned. She is fascinated by Jokanaan’s stance, which seems like the antithesis of the mode of life of her own surroundings. But she knows only one way to identify with the new: that of taking sexual possession. Jokanaan refuses her advances.
Searching for Salome, Herod arrives in the courtyard with Herodias and his entourage. He asks Salome to dance for him, swearing to give her whatever she wants. After the dance, Salome demands the head of Jokanaan. The tetrarch, aghast at the prospect of execution, offers her jewels and other treasures, but finally has to fulfill his oath and her desire. The executioner brings Salome Jokanaan’s head. Salome’s bloody revenge is followed by her realization that, with Jokanaan’s death, she has destroyed herself. Herod gives the order to kill Salome.
The State Opera was built to coincide with Friedrich II idealistic view that the arts, science and politics should be symbolised through great architecture. He commissioned his friend and architect, Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff with the job and it was built by 1744. On August 18, 1843 the Opera house was destroyed by fire. A new opera building, with Carl Friedrich Langhans as architect, was inaugurated the following Autumn. In the 1920's the Opera house underwent a major reconstruction and reopened in April 1928. Many famous people have graced the stage such as Felix von Weingartner, Karl Muck, Richard Strauss, and Leo Blech.
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