José Martinez: "At the Paris Opera, the spirit of the troupe exists, but it must be awakened"

He is returning from Tallinn in Estonia, where he re-edited his version of Le

and takes up his duties as director of dance at the Paris Opera on Monday 5 December.

Since his appointment on October 28, José Martinez has attended the ballet promotion competition;

the fixed price of three stars out of the four distributed in

and the departure from the Paris Opera of the "star" François Alu.

LE FIGARO.

- Were you expecting the defections of the stars on

Jose MARTINEZ.

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The moment is difficult.

is a very hard ballet, especially for boys who have dizzying lifts.

They gave of themselves without measuring their efforts, because it was a new production and they were passionate about it.

In the end, they found themselves physically saturated.

Some also said that the role of Rodolphe - infidelities, drugs, suicide - had emptied them morally, that they were not ready to throw themselves into...

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