Big night (once again) at the opera. Tuesday, on the last evening of a busy Fashion Week, the meeting was at the Opéra Garnier, for the opening gala of the dance season. On the program for this tenth edition of the gala, organized in partnership with Chanel and Rolex respectively major patron and official watch of the Paris National Opera, the ballet parade: from the little rats to the stars, the dancers of the Paris Opera Paris rushes onto the stage, tips touching the ground, to the applause of the audience, rehearsals for a season that already promises to be busy. To inaugurate 2024-2025 on a good basis, passages from four ballets were danced, showing the extent of the talents present, on choreographies of My’Kal Stromile, William Forsythe et Johan Inger.
On the steps leading to the performance hall, the guests greet each other. Among them, Vanessa Paradis, Lupita Nyong’o majestic in a total black look, Charlotte Le Bon, Kelly Rutherford or even Panayotis Pascot, Theo Christine et Benjamin I could. The political side was not left out, with the presence of the Minister of Culture Rachida Data and the former prime minister Manuel Valls.
Panayotis Pascot
Virgile Guinard
Mehdi Kerkouche
Virgile Guinard
Charlotte Casiraghi
Virgile Guinard
Crossed at intermission, Charlotte Casiraghi told us about the Chanel show, which took place that morning: “There was something of a call for freedom, something at once ethereal, comforting, gentle and a work very subtle on the collars, we returned a bit to the great classics of the little black dress and the white collar. I found it magnificent. » Herself close to the house, a regular collaborator on literature, she is a regular at the opera: “I have been coming to see dance and opera performances since I was very little, my mother is very passionate about dance, it’s a bit part of my life and it’s always an emotion when you’re sitting in front of the stage curtain and it suddenly opens, when the orchestra starts to warm up there always has a great emotional moment. »
At the opening gala of the dance season, October 1, 2024.
At the opening gala of the dance season, October 1, 2024.
Agathe POUPENEY
At the opening gala of the dance season, October 1, 2024.
Julien Benhamou
At the opening gala of the dance season, October 1, 2024.
Agathe POUPENEY
At the opening gala of the dance season, October 1, 2024.
Agathe POUPENEY
“Each ballet is a slightly different experience. I always try to capture the look exchanged when two dancers are dancing, this complicity. There is always a moment where we see that they are both extremely concentrated in their execution, but sometimes something escapes in the look,” she continues. Like all the spectators, the princess’s daughter Caroline of Monaco feels “always a great emotion during the presentation of the dancers”: “When the little ones arrive, there is always something magical, it’s very beautiful. These dancers embody a form of grace and perfection of gesture, seeing how this passes from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, I find it quite marvelous. »
Star stars followed one another on stage, from Guillaume Diop has Hannah O’Neillpassing through Hugo Marchand et Valentine Colasante. Everyone then put on their party clothes to join the dinner guests, applauded as they arrived at the table, before sneaking off for the after party at the Opera.
Léonore Baulac and Sae Eun Park.
Francois Goize
Germain Louvet, Hugo Marchand and Guillaume Diop.
Francois Goize
Hannah O’Neill and Germain Louvet.
Francois Goize
Hugo Marchand and Dorothée Gilbert.
Francois Goize
Once at the table, the guests were able to discover an eight-handed menu, signed Pierre Touitou, James Henry, Sandra Mielenhausen et Nicolas Rozier-Chabert. And finish until the end of the night on the improvised dance floor on the Rotonde des Abonnés… so as not to leave dancing only to the professionals.
