Obviously it had to be done.
The 10th anniversary of the death of choreographer Roland Petit and the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris gave the Paris Opera two good reasons to reschedule this ballet.
To see it, we say to ourselves that it was perhaps not the best idea.
Roland Petit created the piece for the Paris Opera in 1965. It was the first time he worked with the company.
He is a dancing master who is working on thinking up a new style of movement.
Instead of the great classical movements, sets like caricatures that he plays in counterpoint to pas de deux fashioned on the impulses of the heart.
To carry out his
Notre-Dame de Paris
, adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo, Roland Petit commissions Maurice Jarre for the music.
René Allio creates the sets with thick black highlights in the style of Bernard Buffet.
Yves Saint Laurent, who is very young, takes up the palette for the suits: red, yellow, petrol blue.
The Middle Ages are not a dusty old thing!
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