Le Parc - Garnier - du 20/9/05 au 4/10/05

Caligula - Nicolas Le Riche - du 21/10/05 au 14/11/05, sur les Quatre saisons de Vivaldi, partenariat avec la Comédie Française argument Nicolas Le Riche et Guillaume Gallienne - Garnier

Jewels - du 28/10/05 (avec Défilé) au 13/11/05 - Garnier

La Petite danseuse de Degas - du 8/12/05 au 30/12/05 - Garnier

Le Lac des Cygnes - du 12/12/05 au 12/01/06 -avec soirée Nouvel An

Démonstrations de l'Ecole de danse - 4, 11, 18 décembre 2005

Spectacle de l'Ecole de danse - du 23/4/06 au 3/5/06
Divertimento n°15 (Balanchine)
Entre deux rondes (Lifar)
Variation Don Giovanni (Béjart)

Trisha Brown Dance Company
1er programme - du 6 au 10 janvier 2006
2e programme - les 7 et 9 janvier 2006 - Winterreise

Soirée Forsythe - Créations à l'Opéra du 6/2 au 16/2/06
- Approximate Sonata
- Herman Scherman
- Artifact Suite réadapté pour Opéra de Paris

La Bayadère - Bastille - du 3/3/06 au 8/4/06

Soirée Kylian, Lagraa, Teshigawara - du 16/3/06 au 1/4/06 - Garnier
- Souffle du temps, chor. Abou Lagraa (création mondiale)
- Air
- Bella Figura

Nosferatu - Bastille - du 6 au 13/5

Nederlands dans Theater - Garnier
1er programme : 9 et 10 mai 2006 - NDT 3
2e programme : 12 au 15 mai 2006 - NDT 1

Jeunes Danseurs - Garnier - 23, 24 et 25 mai 2006

Danseurs Chorégraphes - Amphi Bastille - 23, 24 et 28 juin 2006

Soirée Béjart - Bastille - du 19/6/06 au 14/7/06
- Mandarin Merveilleux
- Création
- Boléro

La Dame aux Camélias - Garnier - du 20/6/06 au 15/7/06

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Tournées :
- en Chine : Suite en blanc, Arlésienne et chorégraphie de Béjart
- Giselle
- Paquita

- Angleterre : Sadler's Wells : Le Parc

- Une autre tournée est prévue

<small>[ 31 March 2005, 01:02 AM: Message edited by: Cathy ]</small>

Cathy-
Do you (or anyone else out there) know what the annual budget is for the Paris Opera Ballet? I've searched the internet and can not find that information.

Best regards,
David

I don't where you can find the annual budget. Before the Mortier's arrival, you can find it on the official website of POB, but now you find it nowhere.
This season is more interesting that the actual season, more clasical and neo-classical. But I'm not thrilled by it. I'm glad to discover Neumeier's Lady of Camelias but it's the end of the season.

David, I too had a search on Google and also a look at the French Ministry of Culture website, but couldn't find anything.

I'm assuming you are interested in orders of magnitude, rather than exactitude. From the dim and distant past, I have a memory that the full Paris Opera grant was greater than the annual US National Endowment for the Arts budget, suggesting around $150m.

For comparison, the Royal Opera House now receives around $50m per annum, which is around 30% of total income. Given that:

- the Paris Opera has two major venues, as opposed to one in London

- POB has many more dancers (is it around 140, Cathy?) than the Royal's 92

- I would imagine the Paris Opera subsidy %age is around double or more that of the Royal, especially looking at ticket price comparisons.

Where does that leave us?

RO - $50m

scale up by factors of 2 for %age subsidy, 1.5 greater cost base due to staff and building, gives:

$50x2x1.5 = $150m

So both guesstimates for the entire Paris Opera subsidy comes out at $150m (I didn' fix it, honest!!)

What about Paris Opera Ballet alone? Well, the Royal Opera grant is no longer split between opera and ballet, but when it was, around 45% of the total was for ballet. If POB is similar, then that gives a subsidy of the order of $67.5m.

Given all the guesses here, there is clearly an error bound. I would be inclined to say that the Paris Opera Ballet grant was probably within the range $50m-$80m per annum.

Given the quality of the dancers and the mix of 19th, 20th classics and innovative work, it's money well spent in my book.

<small>[ 31 March 2005, 04:11 AM: Message edited by: Stuart Sweeney ]</small>

It's 150 dancers, Stuart !

Wow, thank you Cathy and Stuart for the information.

Best,
David

It has just been reported on a Russian web site dedicated to the Benois de la Danse awards, (and perhaps those in Paris were already aware) that Manuel Legris has undergone knee surgery and (if I correctly understood) had his meniscus removed. Apparently during rehearsal on April 15 the pain was so bad that he stopped, and went to the hospital. It is said he feels fine at present time. Legris was slated to perform at the Benois Laureates performance in Moscow on April 27 and will not be attending.

I dont know the budget of the PO, but I know the financial help from french governement is 106 millions euros (for 2005). There is also ticket sales, friends... But what is thepart of the ballet in this?? (excuse my english, it's quite far...)

Hello,

I would be very grateful if anyone in Paris or France could tell me the performance dates for Laurent Hilaire in the Roland Petit programme?

Thanks!

Laurent Hilaire's dates haven't been given yet, we only know Manuel Legris's ones (they're on his website).

Laurent Hilaire doesn't dance in Petit's ballets evening. He must dance Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. since last march Laurent Hilaire is Ballet Master of POB and just guest etoile.

Thank you very much for this information. I knew about Legris's performances that I intend to see in July.
Very sad about Hilaire's retirement, but, on the other hand, happy to see that he will be staying in the company as ballet master.

Dear all,
I'd like to ask you to inform as soon as possible about the dates of Laurent Hialire in Le Parc and Caligula.

Certainly no one could accuse Ms. Lefèvre of timidity - I'm struggling to think of a previous example of a commission for an evening-length work from a choreographer with only one previous creation.

The comments of the French critics seem quite mild: "too intellectual" and "it wasn't at all bad," but...lacked intensity. Indeed for a second work of any length, I'd say that was damn good.