Notre-Dame De Paris LIVE
Maurice Jarre

Roland Petit's first piece for the Opera de Paris' ballet in 1965, Notre-Dame de Paris brings together all the ingredients of a grand spectacle. The ballet was inspired by Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, with its colourful characters: the beautiful Esmerelda, the touching Quasimodo, the machiavellian Frollo and the cynical Pheobus.
With colourful and graphic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent and sets by the painter René Allio that recreate the splendour of the Parisian cathedral, the choreography, sustained by the ensemble of the company’s dancers, translates all the expressive power of characters plunged into a saga of love and death. To mark the tenth anniversary of the choreographer’s death, the Corps de Ballet revives this magnificent fresco in dance on the stage of Opera Bastille.
Datasheet
ConductorJean-François Verdier
ChoreographerRoland Petit
Number of actsBallet in two acts
Total running time1h50 including a 20-minute intermittion
Date of performance2021-04-27
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