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After enriching the Paris Opera Ballets’s repertoire with thirteen creations and nine other works, Roland Petit returns to the Palais Garnier to once again, hand down his art to the rising generation. The choreographer, with his special talent for creating pictorial and literary atmospheres, here offers us the best of mid-twentieth century artistic Paris; a mythical trilogy where he excels in the art of storytelling, portraying, compelling characters and incomparable poetic worlds through contemporary language. Le Rendez-vous, first performed in 1945 and based on a poem by Jacques Prévert, depicts the bohemian Paris of the post-war period. Like les Forains, Le Rendez-vous, was the chance for Roland Petit to bring together the most inventive talents of the day, pursuing the ideal of the Ballets Russes. Besides Pablo Picasso, former companions of the Diaghilev adventures, the choreo- grapher welcomed the friends of Jacques Prévert, the photographer Brassaï, as well as the composer Joseph Kosma and the costume designer Mayo who had both wor- ked with the poet in the same cinema studios. Amazingly performed by the Etoiles Dancers Nicolas Le Riche and Isabelle Ciaravola and the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet
Le Rendez-vous is based on a poem by Jacques Prévert. It is a fascinating work which tells the story of a young man outside a dance-hall who reads his horoscope predicting his imminent death. Accosted in a sombre alley by a hunchback who threatens him with an open razor, the youth eludes his aggressor by telling him he has a rendez-vous with the most beautiful girl in the world. But in escaping from one, he falls under the spell of the other, and Destiny is fulfilled when she slits his throat.
Nicolas Le Riche, Isabelle Ciaravola .
Choreographer: Roland Petit, Music: Joseph Kosma, Front curtain: Pablo Picasso, Sets design: Brassaï, Colonne Orchestra
French
English, French
Production compagny : Telmondis
Coproduction compagny : Opéra national de Paris, Euromedia France, Mezzo in association with France 2
Running Time : 1x27’
Production Year : 2011
Distribution compagny : Telmondis distribution
Video Format : HD CAM, Digibeta 16/9, 4/3 Letterbox