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The iconic photos of Avedon, A Midsummer Night's Dream revisited, the Hors Pistes festival... Our 5 cultural must-sees

2024-01-31T16:09:14.410Z

Highlights: The iconic photos of Avedon, A Midsummer Night's Dream revisited, the Hors Pistes festival... Our 5 cultural must-sees. Every two weeks, Madame Figaro delivers her cultural selection. This week, we look at the Gagosian gallery's exhibition of 150 iconic photos. We also look at a new production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and the first performance of the Nutcracker by the Mogador Theater troupe. And we conclude with a film screening of Sommerspiele by Nicolas Salamon.


Exhibitions, theater, dance... Every two weeks, Madame Figaro delivers her cultural selection.


The icons of Richard Avedon at the Gagosian gallery

Richard Avedon would have been 100 years old on May 15, 2023. For the centenary of the photographer's birth, the Gagosian gallery has brought together a collection of 150 iconic photos.

It was at

Vogue

, where he began a collaboration with Diana Vreeland in 1966, that he showed the full extent of his talent.

Alongside his illustrious fashion photos, he creates expressive images of cowboys, political figures like Ronald Reagan or the world of the arts, from Marilyn Monroe to Francis Bacon, from the Beatles to Janis Joplin... The exhibition highlights his murals, unpublished prints or the famous series of fashion photos

Dovima with elephants

... Artists and celebrities, such as Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola, Elton John, Kate Moss or Miuccia Prada participated in the event, commenting on his work and his influence on contemporary visual culture.

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“Iconic Avedon”, until March 2, 2024, Galerie Gagosian

Cosi fan tutte

, a new production at the Chatelet

Cosi Fan Tutte Monika Rittershaus

The third opera by Mozart and Da Ponte after

The Marriage of Figaro

and

Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte

synthesizes all styles in a work that is as protean as it is joyful.

Created at the Aix en Provence festival this summer for its 75th edition, the work is revived at the Châtelet, in a contemporary staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov, with Christophe Rousset as musical director and a partly renewed cast, with Patricia Petitbon in the role of Despina.

The icing on the cake: 20 pairs of connected glasses will be available to spectators to take a closer look at this fool's game between lovers.

Cosi fan tutte

, Mozart from February 2 to 22, 2024, Palais Garnier

A Midsummer Night's Dream

,

Shakespeare's comedy at the Théâtre de la Ville

A Midsummer Night's Dream Jean-Louis Fernandez

Here, everything is fantasy and arabesque, to use Victor Hugo's words.

The story, which takes place in Athens, brings together and separates two couples of young lovers.

Hermia wants to marry Lysander but her father, Aegeus, destines her to Demetrius with whom Helena is in love.

The action takes place in a magical forest, during a night that feels like a dream.

Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota's direction summons all the artifices of the theater, from the trapdoors from which the fairies emerge to the flight of their queen Titania who crosses the main stage of the Sarah Bernhardt room.

The new translation by François Regnault dusts off this masterpiece written between 1594 and 1595. A pure moment of theater.

A Midsummer Night's Dream,

Skakespeare, until February 10, 2024, Théâtre de la Ville

Hors Pistes Festival at the Center Pompidou

Piece “Where the goat is tied, it must graze” by Rebecca Chaillon.

Juanita Boada Salazar

The 19th edition of the Hors Pistes festival, dedicated to moving images that cross the news, explores this year the rules of sport, drawing inspiration from the Women's Football World Cup, the Rugby World Cup and in anticipation of the Olympic Games in Paris.

On the program: a collective exhibition which questions, beyond sporting performances, today's protests with works by, among others, Pauline Bastard, Laurent Salvador, Maria Vedder.

Without forgetting a screening of

Sommerspiele,

a film by Estzter Salamon (February 3) and

Paradeyes,

a performance by Nicolas Faubert (February 4)... Or how sport adapts to our times.

Hors Pistes, the rules of sport

, until February 18, Center Pompidou

My first Nutcracker

in Mogador

Nutcracker Julien Benhamou

After the success of

My First Swan Lake

which enchanted 100,000 spectators, the Mogador theater repeated the experience with

My First Nutcracker

, another masterpiece by Tchaikovsky.

Same format: twice 40 minutes and a narration aimed at young audiences.

Same delight with Karl Paquette, star dancer of the Paris Opera, on duty, accompanied by a troupe of professional dancers.

Breathtaking costumes and sets, remarkable choreography, this ballet is a magical journey for young and old.

My first Nutcracker

, until February 25, 2024, Théâtre Mogador

Source: lefigaro

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