Act I

Act II

A legendary and fantastical Persia becomes the backdrop of the thwarted love triangle uniting the hunter Djémil, the beautiful Nouredda - engaged to the Khan- and Naïla, the water sprite. In his first creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, Etoile dancer Jean-Guillaume Bart revived an almost-forgotten ballet of the repertoire, originally premiered in 1866 at the Paris Opera. In a close collaboration with playwright Clément Hervieu-Léger, Jean-Guillaume Bart gave back to La Source its original freshness. He created a wonderful danced tale, poetic and virtuosic, enhanced by Christian Lacroix’s flamboyant costumes and Eric Ruf’s evocative stage set. Les Etoiles, Les Premiers Danseurs et le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris A co-production of the Paris National Opera - François Roussillon et Associés - 2011 With the participation of France Télévisions, the support of the CNC and the Orange Foundation, sponsor of the Paris Opera's audiovisual broadcasts. Director: François Roussillon Visuel ©Anne Deniau / OnP

La Source 

A legendary and fantastical Persia becomes the backdrop of the thwarted love triangle uniting the hunter Djémil, the beautiful Nouredda - engaged to the Khan- and Naïla, the water sprite. In his first creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, Etoile dance

Jean-Guillaume Bart

An Austrian citizen born to Czech and Hungarian parents, Ludwig Aloysius Minkus (1826-1917) was trained at the Wiener Musikverein (Vienna), where he started to compose for his instrument, the violin. He began his career as Concertmaster at the Vienna Court Opera, and then moved to Saint Petersburg in 1853 where he became conductor of the Serf orchestra of Prince Nikolai Yusupov. In 1858, he served as Concertmaster to the orchestra of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow and then conductor in 1861, while having his first successes as ballet composer at the Moscow Imperial Theatres with Arthur Saint-Léon’s ballets Fiammetta (1864), Le Poisson d’Or (The Golden Fish, 1867) and Le Lys (The Lily, 1869), but above all with 1869 with Marius Petipa’s Don Quixote. The following year, he was appointed official ballet composer at the Bolshoi and, in 1872, in Saint Petersburg. He had a fruitful working relationship with Marius Petipa, until the director of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Vsevolozhsky offered the position to Tchaikovsky in 1887. He composed the score of many choreographies: Camargo (1872), Le Papillon (1874), The Bandits (1875), Les Aventures de Pelée (1876), La Bayadère (1877), Roxana, the Beauty of Montenegro (1878), The Daughter of the Snows (1878), the Grand pas in Le Corsaire (1881), the divertissement in Paquita (1881), Night and Day (1882), The Magic Pills (1886), The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886) and Kalkabrino (1891). He also worked with Saint-Léon and taught for a long time at the Moscow Conservatory, and was even named Inspector of Orchestras to the Moscow Imperial Theatres. When in 1866 Émile Perrin commissioned him to compose two tableaux of La Source (by Saint-Léon) for the Paris Opera, Minkus was no stranger to the Parisian public, which had discovered him thanks to his Don Quixote. Besides, his ballet Fiammetta (renamed Néméa, or the avenged love) had received good reviews two years earlier in the house. Before his last success, Mlada (created in 1896 but composed in 1879), Minkus retired to Vienna in 189 where he died in 1917 of pneumonia, alone and in utter poverty.

1993/1999 : Pursues her studies at the Colón Theatre Superior Institute of Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina.2000 : Joins the Santiago Ballet of Chili.2002 : Promoted to a soloist.2003 : Receives the Igor Youskevitch Award and at the 7th New York International Ballet Competition, she earns the Silver Medal as well as an engagement at the American Ballet Theatre. She joins the Corps de ballet of the Paris Opera Ballet.2007 : Promoted to « Coryphée ».2008 : Promoted to

 « Sujet ». 2009 : The Konex Award (Argentina). 2010 : Promoted to

« Première Danseuse ». 2017 : Prix Benois de la Danse (Moscou)2019 : The Konex Platinium Award (Argentina)2021 : LATFRAN Award of Excellence (France)Ludmila Pagliero was named "Danseuse Étoile" on March 22nd 2012, following a performance of the ballet La Bayadère (Rudolf Nureyev) in which she performed the role of Gamzatti.As part of the Paris Opera Ballet’s official tours, Ludmila Pagliero has performed in Russia (Moscow, 2013; Novosibirsk, 2018), Japan (2017), Spain (Madrid, 2019), France (Brest, 2016; Mulhouse 2020).

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He has since added to his repertoire: Le Palais de Cristal, Duo Concertant, Violin Concerto, le Cavalier de Titania et le Divertissement dans Le Songe d’une nuit d’été, La Valse (George Balanchine), A-bras-le-corps (Charmatz), the title role of Onegin (John Cranko), Études (Harald Lander), Hippolytus in Phaedra (Serge Lifar), Armand in La Dame aux Camélias (John Neumeier), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliette (Noureev), Don José in Carmen, Quasimodo in Notre-Dame de Paris (Roland Petit), Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj), Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins), Polyphonia (Wheeldon).

Paquette Karl

2001 : Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.

2004 :&nbsp;Joins the Corps de ballet.
2006 :&nbsp;Promoted to “Coryphée”.
He receives the Prix du Cercle Carpeaux as well as the AROP Dance Prize..
2007 :&nbsp;Promoted to “Sujet”.
2008 :&nbsp;Promoted to “Premier danseur”.&nbsp;On April 16th 2009, he is made an « Étoile » following a performance of Onegin (John Cranko) in which he performed the role of Lensky. As part of the Company’s official tours, Mathias Heymann has performed in Japan (Tokyo 2007, 2010). Mathias Heymann was named Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Heymann Mathias

Main roles: Emeraudes/Joyaux, Concerto Barocco, Terpsichore/Apollon, Agon (Balanchine), La Mère/La Petite Danseuse de Degas, Swanilda/Coppélia (Bart), Isabelle/Wuthering Heights (Belarbi), pas de deux des paysans and Myrtha / Giselle (after Coralli and Perrot), Orison (Darde), Rhapsody in blue (Duboc), The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe), Pavane (Kelemenis), Bella Figura (Kylián), le pas de trois/Paquita, pas de deux des Ecossais and Effie/ La Sylphide (Lacotte), Suite en blanc, La Chimère / Les Mirages (Lifar), La Danseuse de rue and Kitri/Don Quichotte, pas de trois and Czardas /Lac des cygnes, L’Automne and one of the two sisters/Cendrillon, pas de deux de L’Oiseau bleu/The Sleeping Beauty, Henriette/Raymonda, Clara/The Nutcracker, the second shadow variation and Gamzatti/La Bayadère (Nureyev), L’Arlesienne (Petit).

1987 Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.1993 Joins the Corps de Ballet.2008 Coryphée2009 Sujet

Alexis Renaud

Actor, stage director and set designer, Éric Ruf joined the Comédie-Française in 1993, where he became a member in 1998 and took the role of managing director in 2014. Stage director both for the theater and the opera, he directed, among others, Le Pré aux clercs at the Opéra Comique, Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Critics's Grand Prize, 2017) or, for the Comédie-Française, La Vie de Galilée (Salle Richelieu, 2019), Bajazet (Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, 2017), Roméo et Juliette (Salle Richelieu, 2015), Peer Gynt (Grand Palais, 2012 – Grand Prix du syndicat de la Critique and the Figaro's Beaumarchais Prize), performances where he also designed the scenography. He also created the opera, theater and ballet decors for productions by Denis Podalydès, Clément Hervieu-Léger, Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq, Véronique Vella, Jean-Yves Ruf, Hervé Pierre, Julie Deliquet, Guillaume Gallienne or Christine Montalbetti. As an actor, he has worked in the theatre under the direction of Jacques Lassalle, Patrice Chéreau, Alain Françon, Denis Podalydès, Christian Schiaretti, Anatoli Vassiliev, Yves Beaunesne, Jean-Yves Ruf, Éric Vignier, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean-Luc Boutté, Jean Dautremay, Jérôme Savary, Clément Hervieu-Léger… In films and television, he has appeared in the work of Yves Angelo, Nicole Garcia, Arnaud Desplechin, Nina Companeez, Josée Dayan, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Emmanuel Bourdieu, Yvan Attal, Roman Polansky... A winner of the City of Paris's Gérard Philipe Award (1999), he won in 2007 the Molière for Best Stage Design/Set and Best Supporting Actor in Cyrano de Bergerac, and in 2016 the Molière for Best Visual Creation for 20,000 leagues under the sea. As managing director, he also won two Molières for Public Theatre: Les Damnés in 2017, and La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez in 2019. Éric Ruf is Commandeur <a name="firstHeading"></a>of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Dominique Bruguière is a lighting designer for theatre, ballet and opera. Her most outstanding creations have been made in collaboration with major international artists like Robert Carsen, Deborah Warner, Peter Zadek, Jorge Lavelli, Youssef Chahine, Werner Schroeter, Luc Bondy and Patrice Chéreau. She has twice been awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique and the Molière for best lighting designer for the Patrice Chéreau productions of Rêve d’automne (2001) and Phèdre (2003). She also created the lighting for his final production, Elektra, at the Aix Festival. In the domain of dance, she has collaborated with Jean-Claude Gallotta, Karole Armitage, Catherine Diverres, Héla Fattoumi &amp; Éric Lamoureux, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, and Angelin Preljocaj. She has also worked extensively at the Paris Opera creating the lighting for numerous productions including Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (1991), Les Variations d’Ulysse (1995), Lohengrin (1996), Turandot, Salammbô, Die Lustige Witwe (1998), Don Giovanni (1999), War and Peace (2000), Nosferatu (2001), Ariodante (2001), Medea (2002), Hercules (2004), Caligula (2005, 2008), Idoménée (2006), Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (2009) Siddharta (2010), and La Source (2011). More recently, she designed the lights for Don Carlos at the Lyon Opera, and Christophe Honoré’s production of Tosca at the Aix Festival.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Creatives

Cast

Giselle

La Petite Danseuse de Degas

Tricentenaire de l'Ecole française de danse

Les Enfants de Scaramouche