"Etudes". Choreography : Harald Lander. Music : Carl Czerny. Arrangement and orchestration : Knudage Riisager. Conductor : Paul Connelly. Paris, Opéra Garnier, September 21, 2004.
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"The Rite of Spring". Choreography : Maurice Béjart. Music : Igor Stravinsky. Lights : Clément Cayrol. Costumes : Henri Davilad. Béjart Ballet Lausanne dance company : Kateryna Shalkina and Octavio de la Roza. Paris, Palais des Sports, on January 31, 2008.
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The Rite of Spring. Composer: Igor Stravinsky. Choreography and direction: Pina Bausch. Scenography, stage design and costumes: Rolf Borzik. Tanztheater Wuppertal dance company. Centenary of the ballet. Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on June 3rd, 2013.
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"Notre Faust". Choreography by and with Maurice Béjart. Paris, Théâtre National de Chaillot, January 1976.
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Apollo (Apollon Musagète), ballet by George Balanchine, on a music by Igor Stravinsky. Rudolf Nureyev, Noëlla Pontois, Wilfride Piollet and Nanon Thibon. Opéra de Paris, December 1972.
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"Swan Lake". Choreography after Vladimir Bourmeister and Marius Petipa. Music : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Rudolf Nureyev. Paris, Cour carrée du Louvre, on July 8, 1973.
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"Swan Lake" (acts I and II). Music : Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky. Choreography and direction : Rudolf Nureyev. Stage design : Ezio Frigerio. Lights : Vinicio Cheli. Costumes : Franca Squarciapino. Colonne orchestra conducted by Simon Hewett. Dancers : swans, José Martinez and Agnès Letestu. Paris, Opéra Bastille, on November 27, 2010.
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"The Window Washer". Choreography : Pina Bausch, performed by the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Paris, Théâtre de la Ville, April 1998.
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"Leda". Choreography : Maurice Béjart. Maya Plisetskaya and Jorge Donn.
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"White Darkness", ballet by Nacho Duato. Music : Karl Jenkins. Marie-Agnès Gillot. Paris, Opéra Garnier, 9th of November 2006.
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"Casta Diva" à l'IRCAM. Choreography : Maurice Béjart. Maurice Béjart and Yann Le Gac. Paris, March 1980.
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Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), Russian dancer and choreographer in "Le Dieu bleu". Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1912.
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Roland Petit (1924-2011), French dancer and choreographer, on the roof of the Opéra Garnier. Paris, 1965-1966. Photograph from the collections of the French newspaper "France-Soir". Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris.
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"Viktor". Creation and choreography by Pina Bausch. Created in 1986, this ballet was inspired by the city of Rome. Lyon Opera (France), on March 29, 1994.
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Young dancers in the wings of the Paris Opera, late 1930s.
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"David triomphant". Serge Lifar. Paris, Théâtre Cité Universitaire, December 1936.
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Janine Micheau (1914-1976), French opera singer. Paris, March 1937.
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Ivan Ivanocitch Petrov (1920-2003 ?) dans le rôle de "Boris Godounov". Opéra Garnier. Paris (IXème arr.), mars 1954.
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French dancer Zizi Jeanmaire at the Olympia in Paris in 1959.
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"The Rite of Spring", choreography by Pina Bausch, music by Igor Stravinsky. Ballets of the Paris national Opera. Paris, Opéra Garnier, on December 8, 2010.
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Gaston, Paris (1903-1964). Opéra. négatif sur support souple en nitrate de cellulose. [s. d.]. Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris.
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Dome of the Opéra Garnier painted in 1964 by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Russian-born French painter. Paris, 1983.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006), German-born English opera singer. Photograph by Jean Marquis (1926-2019). Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris.
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Paris Opera ballet school, April 1960.
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Apollo (Apollon Musagète), ballet by George Balanchine, on a music by Igor Stravinsky. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Serge Lifar. 1928.
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Maria Callas (1923-1977), Greek opera singer and Alexander "Sandy" Bertrand at the official reception of Ribes at Maxim's in Paris.
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Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999), Swiss composer and manager of the Opéra de Paris. Paris, Palais Garnier, on June 7, 1974.
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Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), Russian ballet dancer. Paris, Opéra Garnier, on June 11, 1974.
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"Défilé du ballet de l'Opéra". Choreographer : George Balanchine. Composer : Hector Berlioz. Dancers : ballet dancers, corps de ballet and ballet school. Paris Opera Orchestra. Aurélie Dupont. Paris, Opéra Garnier, on September 19, 2014.
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Jewels / Diamonds, ballet choreographed by George Balanchine. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Stage design and costumes : Christian Lacroix. Lights : Jennifer Tipton. Paris Opera Orchestra conducted by Kevin Rhodes. Agnès Letestu and José Martinez. Paris, Opéra Garnier, on October 19, 2009.
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Apollo (Apollon Musagète), ballet by George Balanchine, on a music by Igor Stravinsky. Serge Lifar, Lubov Tchernicheva and Felia Doubrovska. Paris, 1928.
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"Le Bal" (The Ball). Choreography by George Balanchine. Music by Vittorio Rieti. Stage design and costumes : Giorgio De Chirico. Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Anton Dolin, Felia Doubrovska and Serge Lifar. Paris, 1929.
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"Le chanteur de Mexico", light opera by Francis Lopez. Luis Mariano. Paris, théâtre du Châtelet, December 1951.
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Opera Garnier : the corps de ballet in a staircase. Paris, circa 1937-1938.
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"La Belle Héléne" of Jacques Offenbach. Paris, Bouffes-Parisiens, September 1976.
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Dance lesson by Paulette Dynalix, French dancer. Paris Opera ballet school, April 1960.
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"The Knight of the Rose", opera by Richard Strauss. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Paris Opera, January 1962.
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"La Belle Hélène" (The Beautiful Helen). Composer : Jacques Offenbach. Direction : Giorgio Barberio Corsetti and Pierrick Sorin. Conductor : Lorenzo Viotti. Librettist : Meilhac and Halevy. Orchestra and chorus : Promethee. Choreography : Raphaëlle Boitel. Costumes : Cristian Raraborrelli. Lights : Gianluca Cappelletti. Performers : Jesus Léon and Gilles Ragon. Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, on May 30, 2015.
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Maria Callas (1923-1977), Greek opera singer, signing her photograph. Paris, on January 16, 1958.
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"Liris". Choreography : Philippe Decoufle. Paris, Théâtre national de Chaillot, on November 23, 2004.
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Moses und Aron (Moses and Aaron), opera composed by Arnold Schönberg. Direction : Herbert Wernicke. Conductor : Christoph von Dohnanyi. Aage Haugland and Philip Langridge. Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, May 1995.
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"The Barber of Seville" (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), opera by Gioacchino Rossini. Conductor : Carlo Montanaro. Libretto : Cesare Sterbini, from a comedy by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Direction : Damiano Michieletto. Stage design : Paolo Fantin. Costumes : Silvia Aymonino. Lights : Fabio Barettin. Choir conductor : José Luis Basso. Singers : René Barbera (The Count of Almaviva), Carlo Lepore (Bartolo), Karine Deshayes (Rosina), Dalibor Jenis (Figaro), Orlin Anastassov (Basilio) and Cornelia Oncioiu (Berta). Paris, Opéra Bastille, on September 16, 2014.
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"Les Indes galantes", opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Conductor : William Christie. Libretto : Louis Fuzelier. Direction : Andrei Serban. Les Arts Florissants chorus and orchestra. Choreography : Blanca Li. Stage design and costumes : Marina Draghici. Lights : Robert Wierzel. Singers : Danielle de Niese and Valerie Gabai. Paris, Opéra Garnier, on September 11, 2003.
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Contact, dance show choreographed by Philippe Decouflé. Music : Nosfell and Pierre Le Bourgeois. Author : Philippe Decouflé. Video conception : Olivier Silola and Laurent Radanovic. Lights : Patrice Besombes. Stage design : : Jean Rabasse. Costumes : Laurence Chalou. DCA Philippe Decouflé dance company. Christophe Salengro. Paris, Théâtre National de Chaillot, on January 8, 2015.
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"Liris". Choreography : Philippe Decoufle. Paris, Théâtre national de Chaillot, on November 23, 2004.
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Cecilia Bartoli (born in 1966), Italian opera singer. Paris, Opéra Garnier, September 1987.
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Tristan und Isolde, opera by Richard Wagner. Conductor : Daniele Gatti. Direction : Pierre Audi. French National Orchestra. Radio France chorus. Stage design and costumes : Christof Hetzer. Dramaturgy : Willem Bruls. Lights : Jean Kalman. Performers : Torsten Kerl, Rachel Nicholls and Brett Polegato. Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on May 6, 2016.
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"Don Juan (Don Giovanni)". Composer : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto : Lorenzo da Ponte. Conductor : Jean-Claude Casadesus, Direction : Louis Erlo. Dramaturgy : Ginette Herry. Stage design : Jacques Rapp. Costumes : Daniel Ogier. Stage design and costumes from the Lyon Opera. Gabriel Bacquier (Leporello) and Felicity Lott (Donna Elvira). Paris, Opéra Garnier. May 1981.
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Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), opera by Giuseppe Verdi. Denise Scharley. December 1961.
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