It is a mausoleum that Pierre Lacotte erects with his new ballet.
It is not so much dedicated to Stendhal as to the passion that he himself, choreographer, decorator and stunning costume designer for Le Rouge et du Noir, devoted his entire life to the 19th century.
From
La Sylphide
to
La Fille du Pharaon
or
Paquita
, he will be remembered for having brought up many ballets from the repertoire that have gone astray in the corridors of time.
This great man of 89 years, born to dance at the Palais Garnier, signed his will there on Saturday evening.
Read also Behind the scenes of the creation of
Rouge et le Noir
at the Paris Opera
It looks like he had fun like crazy painting this fresco in sixteen paintings, on fragments of Massenet, for more than 60 dancers.
He has put everything he loves, everything he knows and that we often no longer know, without looking at the watch;
the ballet lasts 3h15!
Saturday evening, however, lacked the torment so present in Stendhal.
Mathieu Ganio, for whom the role of Julien Sorel was written, was injured from his first variation.
Florian Magnenet replaced him with impressive panache
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