Concert

Caligula

A choreography by Nicolas Le Riche

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Cast

Nicolas Le Riche — Choreographer

Guillaume Gallienne — Collaboration to the dramaturgy

Louis Dandrel — Electro-acoustic creations

Daniel Jeanneteau — Stage design

Olivier Bériot — Costume designer

Dominique Bruguière — Lighting

Paris Opera Orchestra

Frédéric Laroque — Violinist, conductor

Clairemarie Osta — Dancer

Stéphane Bullion — Dancer

Mathias Heymann — Dancer

Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Program notes

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Ballet in 5 acts, Argument by Nicolas Le Riche and Guillaume Gallienne.

First performed in 2005, Caligula is Étoile Dancer Nicolas Le Riche's first choreography for the Paris Opera Ballet. Intrigued by the complex and troubling personality of the Roman emperor, the choreographer evokes the torments of a frail man capable of loving the moon and idolizing his horse, a man impassioned by theatre and constantly playing a role himself.

Constructed as a tragedy, the choreography follows the inexorable progression of this solitary hero towards death. Accompanied by Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which illustrates the irremediable passage of time, the dance, in all its depth and energy, translates the poetry and the violence inherent in a life consumed at lightning speed by excess.

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