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Paris Opera Ballet

Index Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: "Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris") is an integral part of the Paris Opera and the oldest national ballet company. [1]

158 relations: Académie Royale de Danse, Agence France-Presse, Agnès Letestu, Alceste (Lully), Alice Renavand, André Danican Philidor the elder, Angelin Preljocaj, Anniversary, Arthur Saint-Léon, Attilio Labis, Atys (Lully), Auguste Vestris, Aurélie Dupont, Élisabeth Platel, Émilie Cozette, Ballet company, Ballet dancer, Ballet master, BBC Two, Benjamin Millepied, Bolshoi Ballet, Brigitte Lefèvre, Cadmus et Hermione, Carlo Blasis, Carlo Vigarani, Carlotta Zambelli, Cédric Klapisch, Christian de Portzamparc, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claude Bessy (dancer), Comédie-ballet, Coppélia, Corps de ballet, Danseur Étoile, De Lafontaine, Dominique Khalfouni, Dorothée Gilbert, Eleonora Abbagnato, Emma Livry, Filippo Taglioni, Flemming Flindt, François Alu, France, Frederick Wiseman, French language, French Revolution, Gaétan Vestris, George Balanchine, Ghislaine Thesmar, Giselle, ..., Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Glossary of ballet, History of ballet, Isabelle Ciaravola, Isabelle Guérin, Isis (Lully), Jacques Rouché, Jérôme de La Gorce, Jean Babilée, Jean Coralli, Jean Dauberval, Jean Donneau de Visé, Jean Guizerix, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Georges Noverre, Jean-Louis Aumer, Jean-Philippe Rameau, John Neumeier, José Carlos Martínez (dancer), Josua Hoffalt, Jules Perrot, Kader Belarbi, Kenneth MacMillan, La Bayadère, La Dame aux Camélias, La Danse (film), La fille mal gardée, La Sylphide, Laetitia Pujol, Laurent Hilaire, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Les Échos (newspaper), Les petits riens, Letters patent, Louis Mérante, Louis Milon, Louis XIV of France, Lucien Petipa, Ludmila Pagliero, Madame Figaro, Manuel Legris, Marie Taglioni, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Mariinsky Ballet, Mathieu Ganio, Mathilde Froustey, Maurice Béjart, Maximilien Gardel, Michel Descombey, Molière, Molière's company, Monique Loudières, Myriam Ould-Braham, Nanterre, New York City Ballet, New York City Center, Nicolas Le Riche, Notre-Dame de Paris, Palais Garnier, Paris Opera, Paris Opera Ballet, Pauline Leroux, Philippe Quinault, Pierre Beauchamp, Pierre Gardel, Pierre Perrin, Pina Bausch, Place de l'Opéra, Pointe (magazine), Pomone (opera), Principal dancer, Prix Benois de la Danse, Psyché (opera), Raymonda, Roland Petit, Romantic ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), Rudolf Nureyev, Saburo Teshigawara, Salle de la Bouteille, Salle Le Peletier, Sasha Waltz, Serge Lifar, Stéphane Bullion, Swan Lake, Sylvia (ballet), Sylvie Guillem, Symphony in C (ballet), Théâtre du Marais, Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Thésée, The Culture Show, The New York Times, The Nutcracker, The Rite of Spring, The Royal Ballet, Tragédie en musique, Wayne McGregor, Wilfride Piollet, William Forsythe (choreographer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, World War II, Yvette Chauviré, 9th arrondissement of Paris. Expand index (108 more) »

Académie Royale de Danse

The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by letters patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established in the Western world.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Agnès Letestu

Agnès Letestu (born 1 February 1971) is a French ballet dancer.

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Alceste (Lully)

Alceste, ou Le triomphe d’Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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Alice Renavand

Alice Renavand is a French ballet dancer.

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André Danican Philidor the elder

André Danican Philidor the elder (– 11 August 1730), a member of the Philidor family of French musicians and referred to as André Danican Philidor le père after 1709, was a music librarian, instrumentalist, and composer.

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Angelin Preljocaj

Angelin Preljoçaj (born 19 January 1957) is a French dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance.

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Anniversary

An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event.

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Arthur Saint-Léon

Arthur Saint-Léon (17 September 1821, Paris – 2 September 1870) was the Maître de Ballet of St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet from 1859 until 1869 and is famous for creating the choreography of the ballet Coppélia.

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Attilio Labis

Attilio Labis (born 1936) is a French ballet dancer and teacher.

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Atys (Lully)

Atys (Attis) is a tragédie en musique, a type of early French opera, in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti.

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Auguste Vestris

Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris, known as Auguste Vestris (27 March 1760 – 5 December 1842), was a French dancer.

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Aurélie Dupont

Aurélie Dupont (born 15 January 1973 in Paris) is a French ballet dancer who performed with the Paris Opera Ballet as an Étoile.

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Élisabeth Platel

Élisabeth Platel is a French prima ballerina, born in Paris on 10 April 1959.

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Émilie Cozette

Émilie Cozette (born 1981) is a French ballet dancer.

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Ballet company

A ballet company is a type of dance troupe which performs classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff.

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Ballet dancer

A ballet dancer (ballerina fem., ballerino masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet.

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Ballet master

Ballet Master (also Balletmaster, Ballet Mistress, Premier Maître de ballet or Premier Maître de ballet en Chef) is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied (born 10 June 1977) is a French dancer and choreographer, who has lived and worked in the United States after joining the New York City Ballet in 1995, where he became a soloist in 1998 and a principal in 2002.

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Bolshoi Ballet

The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russian Federation.

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Brigitte Lefèvre

Brigitte Lefèvre (born 15 November 1944) is a French ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.

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Cadmus et Hermione

Cadmus et Hermione is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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Carlo Blasis

Carlo Blasis (4 November 1797 – 15 January 1878) was an Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician born in Naples.

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Carlo Vigarani

Carlo Vigarani (1637, Modena - 1713) was an Italian scenic designer who worked as "ingénieur du roi" and then "intendant des plaisirs du roi" at the court of the French king Louis XIV until 1690.

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Carlotta Zambelli

Carlotta Zambelli (1875–1968) was an Italian prima ballerina and ballet teacher.

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Cédric Klapisch

Cédric Klapisch (born 4 September 1961) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Christian de Portzamparc

Christian de Portzamparc (born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (born on 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714As there is only a documentary record with Gluck's date of baptism, 4 July. According to his widow, he was born on 3 July, but nobody in the 18th century paid attention to the birthdate until Napoleon introduced it. A birth date was only known if the parents kept a diary. The authenticity of the 1785 document (published in the Allgemeinen Wiener Musik-Zeitung vom 6. April 1844) is disputed, by Robl. (Robl 2015, pp. 141–147).--> – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Claude Bessy (dancer)

Claude Bessy (born in Paris, October 20, 1932) is a French ballerina, ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet (1970-1971) and director of the Paris Opera Ballet School (1972–2004).

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Comédie-ballet

Comédie-ballet is a genre of French drama which mixes a spoken play with interludes containing music and dance.

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Coppélia

Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: The Girl With The Enamel Eyes) is a comic ballet originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.

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Corps de ballet

In ballet, the corps de ballet (from French, body of the ballet) is the group of dancers who are not soloists.

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Danseur Étoile

Danseur Étoile (for men) or Danseuse Étoile (for women), literally "star dancer", is the highest rank a dancer can reach at the Paris Opera Ballet.

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De Lafontaine

Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, also known as La Fontaine, (1655–1738) was a French ballerina and is regarded as the first female professional ballet dancer.

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Dominique Khalfouni

Dominique Khalfouni (born 1951) is a French ballet dancer.

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Dorothée Gilbert

Dorothée Gilbert (born 25 September 1983) is a French ballerina who dances with Paris Opera Ballet.

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Eleonora Abbagnato

Eleonora Abbagnato (born 30 June 1978) is an Italian ballet dancer, model, and actress.

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Emma Livry

Emma Livry (born as Jeanne Emma Emarot or Emma Marie Emarot; 24 September 1842 – 26 July 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era and a protégée of Marie Taglioni.

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Filippo Taglioni

Filippo Taglioni (aka Philippe Taglioni; 5 November 1777 – 11 February 1871) was an Italian dancer and choreographer and personal teacher to his own daughter, the famous Romantic ballerina Marie Taglioni.

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Flemming Flindt

Flemming Flindt (30 June 1936 – 3 March 2009) was a Danish choreographer born in Copenhagen.

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François Alu

François Alu (born 1993 in Fussy, Cher, France) is a French "Premier Danseur" (first soloist), of the Paris Opera Ballet.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theatre director.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gaétan Vestris

Gaetano Apolline Baldassarre Vestris (18 April 1729 – 1808), French ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the opera in 1749.

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George Balanchine

George Balanchine (born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; January 22, 1904April 30, 1983) was a choreographer.

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Ghislaine Thesmar

Ghislaine Thesmar (born 1943 in Beijing, China), a Ballerina, who studied at the Paris Conservatoire.

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Giselle

Giselle (French: Giselle, ou les Wilis) is a romantic ballet in two acts.

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Giuseppina Bozzacchi

Giuseppina Bozzacchi (23 November 1853 – 23 November 1870) was an Italian ballerina, noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia at the age of 16 while dancing for the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Glossary of ballet

Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language.

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History of ballet

Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries.

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Isabelle Ciaravola

Isabelle Ciaravola (born March 12, 1972) is a French ballet dancer.

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Isabelle Guérin

Isabelle Guérin (born 1961) is a French ballet dancer.

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Isis (Lully)

Isis is a French opera (tragédie en musique) in a prologue and five acts with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Jacques Rouché

Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché (16 November 1862, Lunel - 9 November 1957, Paris) was a French art and music patron.

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Jérôme de La Gorce

Jérôme de La Gorce (born 1951 in Paris) is a French art historian and musicologist.

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Jean Babilée

Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n); 3 February 1923 – 30 January 2014) was a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century.

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Jean Coralli

Jean Coralli (15 January 1779 – 1 May 1854) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer, best known for collaborating with Jules Perrot in creating Giselle (1841), the quintessential Romantic ballet of the nineteenth century.

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Jean Dauberval

Jean Dauberval, a.k.a. Jean D’Auberval, (born Jean Bercher in Montpellier, 19 August 1742 – Tours, 14 February 1806), was a French dancer and ballet master.

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Jean Donneau de Visé

Jean Donneau de Visé (1638 – 8 July 1710) was a French journalist, royal historian ("historiographe du roi"), playwright and publicist.

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Jean Guizerix

Jean Guizerix (born 27 October 1945) is a French ballet dancer and choreographer.

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Jean-Baptiste Dubos

Jean-Baptiste Dubos (14 December 1670 – 23 March 1742), also referred to as l'Abbé Du Bos, was a French author.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli,; 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.

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Jean-Georges Noverre

Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century.

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Jean-Louis Aumer

Jean-Louis Aumer was a French danseur and choreographer, who was born in Strasbourg on 21 April 1774, and who died in Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville in July 1833.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century.

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John Neumeier

John Neumeier (born 24 February 1942) is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director.

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José Carlos Martínez (dancer)

José Carlos Martínez (born in 1969 Cartagena) is a Spanish dancer and choreographer, former ''Etoile'' of the Paris Opera Ballet, and since December 2010, artistic director of the Spanish National Dance Company.

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Josua Hoffalt

Josua Hoffalt (born May 19, 1984) is a French ballet dancer who is currently a Danseur Étoile (principal dancer) at the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Jules Perrot

Jules-Joseph Perrot (18 August 1810 – 29 August 1892) was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Kader Belarbi

Kader Belarbi (born 1962) is a French ballet dancer, choreographer and director.

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Kenneth MacMillan

Sir Kenneth MacMillan (11 December 192929 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977, and its principal choreographer from 1977 until his death.

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La Bayadère

La Bayadère (en. The Temple Dancer) (ru. «Баядерка», Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus.

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La Dame aux Camélias

La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias, commonly known in English as Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage.

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La Danse (film)

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman.

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La fille mal gardée

La Fille mal gardée (English: The Wayward Daughter, literal translation: "The Poorly Guarded Girl" and also known as The Girl Who Needed Watching) is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère.

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La Sylphide

La Sylphide (The Sylph; Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts.

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Laetitia Pujol

Laetitia Pujol (born 8 October 1975) is a French ballet dancer.

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Laurent Hilaire

Laurent Hilaire (born 8 November 1962) is a French ballet dancer.

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman or The Middle-Class Aristocrat or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet—a play intermingled with music, dance and singing—written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors.

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Le Figaro

Le Figaro is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition.

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Les Échos (newspaper)

Les Échos is the first daily French financial newspaper, edited in Paris since 1908.

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Les petits riens

Les petits riens (French for "The Little Nothings") was a ballet in one act and three tableaux by Jean-Georges Noverre, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created at the Academie Royale de Music in Paris before 11 June 1778.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (always in the plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president, or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation.

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Louis Mérante

Louis Alexandre Mérante (23 July 1828–Courbevoie, 17 July 1887) was a dancer and choreographer, the Maître de Ballet (First Balletmaster/Chief Choreographer) of the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier until its destruction by fire in 1873, and subsequently the first Ballet Master at the company's new Palais Garnier, which opened in 1875.

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Louis Milon

Louis-Jacques-Jessé Milon (18 April 1766 - 26 November 1849) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer, and ballet master.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Lucien Petipa

Lucien Petipa (December 22, 1815 – July 7, 1898) was a French ballet dancer in the early 19th century (Romantic period), who was the brother of Marius Petipa, the famous ballet master of the Russian Imperial Ballet.

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Ludmila Pagliero

Ludmila Pagliero (born 15 October 1983) is an Argentine ballet dancer who is currently an étoile (principal) dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Madame Figaro

Madame Figaro is a French magazine supplement to the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper Le Figaro, focusing on and catering to women.

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Manuel Legris

Manuel Legris is a French ballet dancer, born in Paris on October 10, 1964.

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Marie Taglioni

Marie Taglioni, Comtesse Gilbert de Voisins (23 April 1804 – 22 April 1884) was a Swedish ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.

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Marie-Agnès Gillot

Marie-Agnès Gillot born in 1975 in Caen is a French ballet dancer and choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Marie-Claude Pietragalla

Marie-Claude Pietragalla (born 2 February 1963 in Paris) is a French dancer and choreographer.

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Mariinsky Ballet

The Mariinsky Ballet is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Mathieu Ganio

Mathieu Ganio (born 16 March 1984) is a French danseur étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Mathilde Froustey

Mathilde Froustey (born June 8, 1985 in Bordeaux, France) is a French ballet dancer.

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Maurice Béjart

Maurice Béjart (1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland.

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Maximilien Gardel

Maximilien Gardel (18 December 1741, Mannheim - 11 March 1787, Paris) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of German descent.

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Michel Descombey

Michel Descombey (28 October 1930 – 5 December 2011) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and director.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Molière's company

Molière's company (La Troupe de Molière) was the theatrical company which formed around Molière from 1648 onwards, when he was performing in the French provinces after the failure of the Illustre Théâtre in 1645.

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Monique Loudières

Monique Loudières (born 15 April 1956) is a French ballet dancer and teacher.

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Myriam Ould-Braham

Myriam Ould-Braham (born January 1982) is a French ballet dancer.

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Nanterre

Nanterre is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department, the western suburbs of Paris.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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New York City Center

New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama,. The name "City Center for Music and Drama Inc." is the organizational parent of the New York City Ballet and, until 2011, the New York City Opera. and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater,White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot; AIA Guide to New York City, 4th Edition; New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Crown Publishers/Random House. 2000.;. p.267.) is a 2,257-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City.

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Nicolas Le Riche

Nicolas Le Riche (born 29 January 1972, Sartrouville, Yvelines) is a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet director.

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Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier (French) is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera (French) is the primary opera company of France.

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Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opera Ballet (French: "Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris") is an integral part of the Paris Opera and the oldest national ballet company.

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Pauline Leroux

Adèle-Louise-Pauline Leroux (19 August 1809–5 February 1891) was a French dancer and ballerina of the 19th-century Romantic ballet era and a member of the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Philippe Quinault

Philippe Quinault (3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.

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Pierre Beauchamp

Pierre Beauchamp (also Beauchamps, called "Charles" or Charles-Louis Beauchamp) (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation.

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Pierre Gardel

Pierre-Gabriel Gardel (4 February 1758, Nancy, France – 18 October 1840, Paris) was a French ballet dancer, ballet master, violinist, and composer.

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Pierre Perrin

Pierre Perrin (c.1620 – 24 April 1675) was a French poet and librettist.

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Pina Bausch

Philippina "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director.

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Place de l'Opéra

The Place de l'Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of boulevard des Italiens, boulevard des Capucines, avenue de l'Opéra, rue Auber, rue Halévy, rue de la Paix and rue du Quatre-Septembre.

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Pointe (magazine)

Pointe is an international magazine aimed toward ballet dancers and students.

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Pomone (opera)

Pomone (Pomona) is a pastoral opera in a prologue and five acts by Robert Cambert with a libretto by Pierre Perrin.

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Principal dancer

A principal dancer (often shortened to principal) is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

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Prix Benois de la Danse

The Benois de la Danse is one of the most prestigious ballet competitions.

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Psyché (opera)

Psyché is an opera (tragédie lyrique) in a prologue and five acts composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Thomas Corneille (adapted from Molière's original play for which Lully had composed the intermèdes).

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Raymonda

Raymonda (Раймонда) is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his opus 57.

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Roland Petit

Roland Petit (13 January 192410 July 2011) was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer.

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Romantic ballet

The Romantic ballet is defined primarily by an era in ballet in which the ideas of Romanticism in art and literature influenced the creation of ballets.

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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet (Ромео и Джульетта), Op.

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Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (Рудольф Хәмит улы Нуриев Rudolf Xämid ulı Nuriyev, p; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer.

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Saburo Teshigawara

is a Japanese choreographer and dancer who was born in Tokyo and became known for founding a company named KARAS along with Kei Miyata in 1985.

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Salle de la Bouteille

The Salle de la Bouteille or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille, later known as the Hôtel Guénégaud or Guénégaud Theatre, was a 1671 theatre located in Paris, France, between the rue de Seine and the rue des Fossés de Nesle across from the rue Guénégaud (now 42 rue Mazarine, at its intersection with the rue Jacques Callot).

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Salle Le Peletier

The Salle Le Peletier (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera from 1821 until the building was destroyed by fire in 1873.

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Sasha Waltz

Sasha Alexandra Waltz (born 8 March 1963, Karlsruhe) is a German choreographer, dancer, leader of the dance company Sasha Waltz and Guests, and Artistic director designate of the Berlin State Ballet, alongside Johannes Ohman, effective 2019.

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Serge Lifar

Serge Lifar (Сергій Михайлович Лифар, Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar; Серге́й Миха́йлович Лифа́рь, Sergey Mikhaylovich Lifar) (Kiev, Russian Empire)15 December 1986, Lausanne, Switzerland) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century. Not only a dancer, Lifar was also a choreographer, director, writer, theoretician about dance, and collector. As ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1944, and from 1947 to 1958, he devoted himself to the restoration of the technical level of the Paris Opera Ballet, returning it to its place as one of the best companies in the world.

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Stéphane Bullion

Stéphane Bullion (born in 1980) is a French Etoile dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet.

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Swan Lake

Swan Lake (Лебединое озеро Lebedinoye ozero), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76.

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Sylvia (ballet)

Sylvia, originally Sylvia, ou La nymphe de Diane, is a full-length ballet in two or three acts, first choreographed by Louis Mérante to music by Léo Delibes in 1876.

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Sylvie Guillem

Sylvie Guillem (born 25 February 1965) is a French ballet dancer.

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Symphony in C (ballet)

Symphony in C, originally titled Le Palais de Cristal, is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Georges Bizet's Symphony in C (1855).

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Théâtre du Marais

The Théâtre du Marais has been the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France.

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Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)

The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (or Salle du Palais-Royal) on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame.

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Thésée

Thésée (Theseus) is a tragédie en musique, an early type of French opera, in a prologue and five acts with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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The Culture Show

The Culture Show was a weekly BBC Two arts magazine programme, focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker (Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).

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The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps; sacred spring) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

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The Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Tragédie en musique

Tragédie en musique (musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (lyric tragedy), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century.

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Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor, CBE (born 12 March 1970) is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance.

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Wilfride Piollet

Wilfride Piollet (28 April 1943 – 20 January 2015) was a French ballerina and choreographer.

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William Forsythe (choreographer)

William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949 in New York City) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yvette Chauviré

Yvette Chauviré (22 April 1917 – 19 October 2016) was a French prima ballerina and actress.

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9th arrondissement of Paris

The 9th arrondissement of Paris (IXe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Opera_Ballet

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