Special correspondent in Soissons
Seventeen years in the life of Patrick Dupond.
Seventeen years spent in Soissons, where death picked him up on March 5, 2021, at the age of 61.
A period as long as his career as a star at the Paris Opera, from 1980 to 1997.
The Opera, with three tribute evenings opened by an Arop gala at the Palais Garnier on February 21, celebrates the dancer of those years.
No longer a place to sell, maximum revenue for the house which allowed this boy born to a 17-year-old single mother, lady peeing in a brasserie on the Grands Boulevards, to become, for a time, a king of the world.
Gold medal in Varna - the Dance Olympics - at 17, star at 20, director of the Paris Opera Ballet at 31, absolute star - the only size to fight with Nureyev - coveted by the most great choreographers of the moment (Béjart, Petit, Neumeier, Ailey) and courted by the cinema for her aura of absolute star dancer with the public.
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