The Lady of The Camellias by John Neumeier, Opéra national de Paris ballet

La Dame aux Camélias – The Lady of the Camellias
Ballet and Prologue in three acts after the novel by Alexandre Dumas Fils
Choreography by John Neumeier
Music by Frédéric Chopin

Emmanuel Strosser (piano); Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter (piano)
Paris Opera Orchestra/Michael Schmidstdorff

Set and Costume Design: Jürgen Rose
Lighting Design: Rolf Warter

The stars, ballet of the Opéra National de Paris
Marguerite Gautier, Agnès Letestu
Armand Duval, Stéphane Bullion
Monsieur Duval, le père, Michaël Denard
Prudence Duvernoy, Dorothée Gilbert
Manon Lescaut, Delphine Moussin
Des Grieux, José Martinez
Olympia, Eve Grinsztajn
Gaston Rieux, Karl Paquette
Le Duc, Laurent Novis
Nanine, Béatrice Martel

On the music of Frédéric Chopin, John Neumeier presents his vision of the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, written in 1848. Premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet on 4 November 1978, with Marcia Haydée in the title role, the work entered the repertoire of the Hamburg Ballet on 31 January 1981. The choreographer, who often seeks inspiration in literature, had long been fascinated by ‘The Lady of the Camellias’, an account of Dumas fils’s own unhappy affair with Rose-Alphonsine Duplessis, a Parisian courtesan, who died of consumption at the age of 22.

TV director, Thomas Grimm – 2008 (135 mns)
Recordes in July 2008, at the Opéra National de Paris, Palais Garnier
Genre : Danse
Length : 02:11:22
Director : Thomas Grimm