Ian Macmillan Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 The New York Times has just posted this news under Roslyn Sulcas byline: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/arts/dance/benjamin-millepied-to-be-paris-opera-ballet-director.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I've a feeling that won't prove a popular choice with the Parisians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Best wishes to Benjamin Millipied for his new job. I'm sure he will have a huge task on his hands to take over from someone who has been in charge for so many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Very interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marine Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Not sure what to think of it and wonder why they passer over LH> Edited January 24, 2013 by Marine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Assuming 'LH' is Laurent Hilaire, Marine, do you know if he was actually a candidate for the job? If so, he would surely have been at least as strong a candidate as BM - if not stronger - based on his long and very distinguished career with POB. POB management may of course have had other reasons for giving the job to BM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I think both Laurent Hilaire and Manuel Legris would have been candidates. Who knows how anyone performs in an interview situation. I am never surprised by outcomes these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I would have thought that La Riche may also have been a candidate. However, I think the board may well - in the longer run - have made a wise choice. BM certainly will be able to speak the dancer's language - was a fine dancer himself - and may well be able to deal with a politic uniquely ripe in Paris. We should all, I think, send him naught but best wishes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Writer/critic Laura Cappelle has been tweeting over the past hour from the Press Conference in Paris. Some highlights: Season 2014-15 will be programmed by Mme Lefèvre to permit a transition. (NB: the handover is after next season, in September 2014) There's apparently no time limit on his contract. Surprising? He says Nureyev is part of POB's history but, in time, he might want to change some things. He's not bringing any new staff with him. Stephane Lissner, soon to take over as General Director at The Opera, said he met 9 candidates, in France and abroad. He (Millepied) wants to do Opera /Ballet collaborations. He wants POB to tour more and to open the company to his generation of classical choreographers. And his first new piece next season will be a Daphnis and Chloe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 A quick check reveals - predictably, I suppose - that most press links since Roslyn Sulcas' NYT piece earlier all major on "Black Swan." Hopefully, there will be some more considered comment for tomorrow's Links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 '... his first new piece next season will be a Daphnis and Chloe...' Ashton's 'Daphnis' ? If so, this is a very promising pointer to Millepied's tenure at POB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 '... his first new piece next season will be a Daphnis and Chloe...' Ashton's 'Daphnis' ? If so, this is a very promising pointer to Millepied's tenure at POB. I expect Millepied means he will be choreographing his own version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 '..I expect Millepied means he will be choreographing his own version...' If true, that's rather disappointing (with all due respect to Millepied's choreoraphic strengths). POB now perform Ashton's 'Fille' and it has proved so popular that I rather hoped Millepied was picking up on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azulynn Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 No, Millepied will indeed be choreographing his own version. He doesn't strike me as particularly familiar with Ashton, so that would be an unlikely move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTL Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Will the Paris Opera Ballet box office will be bombarded with requests to see Natalie Portman dancing “Black Swan”? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 Very possibly: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2267660/Is-Natalie-Portman-quitting-Hollywood-Actresss-husband-Benjamin-Millepied-accepts-prestigious-ballet-job-Paris.html?ito=feeds-newsxml 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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