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The Paris Opera Ballet

The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra national de Paris, otherwise known as the Palais Garnier, though known more popularly simply as the Paris Opéra. Its origins can be traced back to 1661 with the foundation of the Académie Royale de Danse and the Le Ballet de l'Opéra (1713) by King Louis XIV of France. The official name of the company is Le Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris. It is the successor company to the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique.

There are five ranks of dancer in the Paris Opéra Ballet, from highest to lowest they are: étoiles, premières sujets, sujets, coryphées, quadrilles.

Choreographers associated with the Paris Opera Ballet and ballets created for the Paris Opera Ballet are:

♪ Jean Dauberval: La fille mal gardée (1789)

♪ Pierre Gardel: Télémaque (1790), Psyché (1790), Le jugement de Pâris (1793), La dansomanie (1800)

♪ Philippe Taglioni: La Sylphide (1832)

♪ Jules Perrot: Giselle (1841)

♪ Jean Coralli: Giselle (1841)

♪ Arthur Saint-Léon: Coppélia (1870)

♪ Louis Meranté: Sylvia (1876) etc.

Dancers who have been associated with the company include: La Fontaine, Marie-Thérése de Subligny, Marie Sallé, Marie-Anne Cupis de Camargo, Louis Dupré, Gaétan Vestris, Auguste Vestris, Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito, Emma Livry, Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Rita Sangalli,  Carlotta Zambelli, Yvette Chauviré, Claude Bessy, etc.

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The Paris Opera Ballet is today considered to be one of the world's finest companies. The average age is 25, making it one of the youngest. Its repertoire is very extensive, ranging from the major romantic and classical ballets to contemporary.
The Ballet currently stages some 180 performances per season.

Members: 154 dancers | 18 étoiles | 17 premiers danseurs.
Dancers usually join the ballet between the ages of 16 and 20 and continue their career through to the age of 42.

Management: The ballet is directed and managed by the Company Director, Brigitte Lefèvre, assisted by an Administrator, Olivier Aldeano, a Ballet Master, Patrice Bart, directly associated with the Company Director, two ballet masters, four assistant ballet masters, a stage manager and five assistant stage managers. Six teachers run daily morning lessons.

Organization: Practically all the dancers are trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Admittance to the corps de ballet is organized on the basis of an annual competitive entrance exam and proportional to the number of available places. The annual corps de ballet exam allows dancers to move up the echelons of the hierarchy: quadrille, coryphée, sujet, premier danseur.
The étoiles are appointed by the Director of the Opera on the basis of recommendations made by the Company Director.

Location: The Company is located at the Palais Garnier. Lessons and rehearsals are most frequently held in the 4 classrooms, the 5 rehearsal rooms and occasionally in the Foyer de la Danse. If ballets are performed at the Opéra Bastille, dancers have appropriate facilities there: dressing rooms and rehearsal rooms.

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