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POB 27 - Nureyev's La Bayadere

125 mins.

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Part of Palace Opera & Ballet

Conductor: Koen Kessels
Orchestra: Orchestre de lOpra national de Paris
Cast: Dorothe Gilbert (Nikiya), Hugo Marchand (Solor), Roxane Stojanov (Gamzatti), Thomas Docquir (Golden Idol)
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev
Designs: Ezio Frigerio
Duration: approx. 2h5 without interval

Ballet in three acts (1992)

It was on the stage of the Palais Garnier that Rudolf Nureyev first revealed himself to Western audiences in 1961 as a dancer, and on this same stage that he greeted the public for the last time in 1992 as a choreographer, with La Bayadre. Adapted from Petipa's original, the work reflects Nureyevs taste for flamboyance. In an imaginary India, where an elephant parades before the rajahs palace and a golden idol performs a fan dance, a thwarted love unfolds between the warrior Solor (Hugo Marchand) and the bayadre Nikiya (Dorothe Gilbert), a temple dancer. A jewel in the crown of the Paris Operas repertoire, La Bayadre dazzles with virtuoso variations, spectacular ensembles and the purity of its Kingdom of the Shades scene, during which 32 dancers in white tutus slowly trace their arabesques with a poetry bordering on magic.

Screening Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 February 2027 at 1pm, Plus Wednesday 24 February 2027 at 12pm

Adults: $28.00, Concessions: $22.00

 


Saturday 20/02/2027 - Cinema Four

Sunday 21/02/2027 - Cinema Four

Wednesday 24/02/2027 - Cinema Four