Roland Petit

Notre-Dame de Paris (Opéra Bastille) (2021)

La Scala Ballet: Notre-Dame de Paris (2013)

With Roland Petit's cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre-Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit's deft condensation of Victor Hugo's epic and tragic novel is now renewed by ...

Dancing Chaplin (2011)

The celebrated French choreographer Roland Petit had always had his eye on a film presentation of his ballet "Chaplin Dances", which premiered in 1991 and has been touring the world since, and he assigned this project to his trusted friend, Masayuki Suo, p ...

Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur (2007)

Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier production for the Ballet de Marseille used more realistic stage sets, but the current Paris version has minimal stage s ...

Большой балет: Пиковая дама/Пассакалья (2005)

Pique Dame (or "The Queen of Spades") inspired by Alexander Pushkin, set to a music by Tchaikovsky; Passacaglia (or "Passacaille") set to a music by Anton Webern: two Roland Petit masterpieces brought together on one memorable evening at the Bolshoi Theate ...

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (2005)

Nicolas Le Riche and Marie-Agnès Gillot star in the legendary Roland Petit and Jean Cocteau's pioneering one-act ballet Le Jeune homme et la Mort. This 2005 production at the Opéra de Paris stays true to Petit's original scenic and choreographic concepti ...

Carmen - Roland Petit (2005)

Roland Petit's ballet Carmen was a smash hit at its premiere at London's Prince's Theatre in 1949. Structured in five scenes, the work reimagines the classic opera, using an innovative mixture of modern and classical ballet, mime, and Spanish-style movemen ...

Il pipistrello (La Scala) (2003)

Every night, Johann puts on bat's wings and flies off to enjoy himself. Bella, troubled by her husband's hedonistic activities, consults with her friend Ulrich and plots to disguise herself as a mysterious beauty to seduce her husband. A ballet in two acts ...

Clavigo (1999)

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play Clavigo, Roland Petit's ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn between the contradictory promptings of his heart and his evil spirit, which urges him to serve his own interests and forsake true love ...

White Nights (1985)

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he ...

Carmen (1980)

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Zizi Jeanmaire sizzle in this ballet set to the music and story of Carmen. ...

Pink Floyd Ballet (1973)

Roland Petit Rock Ballet Performed to the music of Pink Floyd Performed Live November 22-26, 1972 Broadcast on French TV January 12-13, 1973 ...

Black Tights (1961)

Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen. ...

An Evening at the Music Hall (1956)

A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater. ...

Daddy Long Legs (1955)

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never w ...

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer. ...

Alice in Wonderland (1949)

This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets. ...

Dancing Chaplin (2011)

The celebrated French choreographer Roland Petit had always had his eye on a film presentation of his ballet "Chaplin Dances", which premiered in 1991 and has been touring the world since, and he assigned this project to his trusted friend, Masayuki Suo, p ...

Carmen (1980)

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Zizi Jeanmaire sizzle in this ballet set to the music and story of Carmen. ...

Black Tights (1961)

Lively scenes of Paris, all narrated by Maurice Chevalier, link together four dramatic ballet choreographies by Roland Petit: La Croqueuse de diamants (The Gold Digger), Cyrano de Bergerac, Deuil en 24 heures (A Merry Mourning), and Carmen. ...

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer. ...