#Garnier Opéra de Monte Carlo

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~ The Phantom of the Opera will have its first performance in an opera house actually designed by Charles Garnier. The Garnier Opéra de Monte Carlo will be the host in December 2023 ...

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POTO Monaco in 'Salle Garnier'❣❣ (From Earl Carpenter's Instagram)

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This antique Magazine from 1881. Here we see the Opera in Monaco built by Garnier. Look at the small detail about the Jewels that the great Diva Adelina Patti (1843-1919) wearing at the Premiere of Traviata in this Operahouse 1881. The wonderful drawing from the Opera is also from that Magazine.

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Our travellers have taken a rather wonderful snapshot of the South Balcony of the Salle Garnier, home of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Below we can see two gelatin silver prints of the Prince’s Palace and then the harbour.

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Opéra de Monte Carlo - The Palais Garnier of the Principality in Monaco

Opéra de Monte Carlo – The Palais Garnier of the Principality in Monaco

With the lack of cultural diversions available in Monaco in the 1870s, Prince Charles III, along with the Société des bains de mer, decided to include a concert hall as part of the casino. It opened in 1879 and became known as the Salle Garnier, after the architect Charles Garnier, who designed it. Seaside façade of the Salle Garnier / Image source The Salle Garnier has a capacity of about 520…

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La Vita Monte-Carlo ou l’Art de Vivre en Principauté d’une Belle vie à l’infini Durant deux mois, la @montecarlosbm vous invite à vivre La Vita Monte Carlo pour des instants ardents, uniques et parfois inattendus à travers tout le Resort. Entre dîners d’exceptions , soirées inoubliables, conférences vins et gastronomie, pique-nique, concerts…. La Vita Monte-Carlo débute le 10 septembre par une soirée exclusive « Candelights » à l’Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo pour un dîner-concert entièrement éclairé aux bougies orchestré par le chef Franck Cerruti, animé et interprété par trois brillantes jeunes femmes artistes : Stella Almondo, Irène Drésel et Élodie Frégé. La Vita Monte-Carlo, c’est également un dîner à 300% : une adéquation parfaite, Yannick Alléno, M. Chapoutier et Guide Parker. Le Pique-nique chic sera aussi mémorable d’une vue époustouflante surplombant la Principauté dans les jardins du Domaine d’Agerbol (le potager du Monte-Carlo Beach). C’est la folie de vivre, un moment unique et ultra personnalisé selon vos souhaits : un dîner en intimité sur le mythique ponton du Monte-Carlo Beach, dans le caves de l’Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo, ou encore un déjeuner-journée en mer à bord d’un Riva 56’…. Sans oublier de boire une coupe de champagne sur la scène ou dans une loge du sublime Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo qui s’offre à vous. La Vita Monte-Carlo est la promesse de vivre du 10 septembre au 10 novembre la Vie intensément comme elle devrait être : Belle, Élégante, Unique et Inoubliable. Programme en lien : https://www.montecarlosbm.com/fr/inspiration/la-vita-monte-carlo #lavitamontecarlo #mymontecarlo #visitmonaco #cotedazurfrance #frenchriviera #monaco #montecarlo #monacomoments #vita #gastronomie (à Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTEt7aBDRzw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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May 4, 2013. Salle Garnier de l'Opéra (Opéra de Monte-Carlo) in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.

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Long time no post! I’ve been home enjoying my down time and happened upon this lost photo that I thought I’d share for #tututuesday This was from my time w/ @lesballetsdemontecarlo when the company celebrated the 100th Anniversary of les Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 2008/2009 season. Company members dawned original costumes from Ballet Russes productions. Though I don’t look it, I was ecstatic to wear this magnificent Firebird costume and have my picture captured in our gorgeous Opéra de Monte Carlo, Salle Garnier ♥️ This was one of two tutus I wore in my 7.5 years at BMC! So glad it was captured 😍 There was never a #tutu I didn’t like!! #bmcdays #love #smile #balletrussescentenary #firebird #operamontecarlo #waybackwhen #sallegarniermontecarlo #ballerina

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The art of contemporary dance in two acts 

The Lavender Follies – Souvenirs of cabarets

The evening’s double program on Thursday, July 26, 2018, at the Salle Garnier, marked the premiere of The Lavender Follies by American choreographer Joseph Hernandez, who had been a dancer with the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, created this piece especially for the company.

In The Lavender Follies, Hernandez uses theater as a playing field, where the choreographer displays his souvenirs of musicals he would watch growing up, in a blend of dance and cabaret performance. He uses the past to create a contemporary piece. The thrilling spectacle takes place under the scrutinizing eyes of journalist Sylvia von Harden, who is incarnated by male dancer Asier Edeso, appearing on stage like the living portrait made of her by Otto Dix.

In the famous painting, Otto Dix portrayed the new woman emerging in Germany in the 1920’s. A woman who left behind all previous conventions, as this new uninhibited woman smoked, drank, was career oriented, and did not specially cared about bringing up a family, she appears almost mannish, with a slumped posture not trying to be beautiful.

Dix demonstrates societal shifts happening at that time.  It became as the picture of the new Germany in the post world war one era.

Incredible characters parade, through different scenes, in front of the journalist’s eyes and the audience, in a weird fascinating but rather incomprehensible spectacle, that pleased some and inconvenienced others in the audience.

Dancer Asier Edeso portraying journalist Sylvia von Harden in The Lavender Follies by Joseph Hernandez @Alice Blangero

Souvenirs of cabaret, The Lavender Follies by Joseph Hernandez @Alice Blangero,dsc2299

The Lavender Follies by Alice Blangero

The Lavender Follies by Joseph Hernandez, Salle Garnier 2018 @Alice Blangero

Memories of musicals, The Lavender Follies by Joseph Hernandez @Alice Blangero

Choreography: Joseph Hernandez Scenography and Costumes : Yannick Cosso & Jordan Pallages Music : Johannes Till Lighting: Samuel Thery Creation for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Premiered July 26, 2018, Salle Garnier de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo Production Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

White Darkness by Nacho Duato – An untimely death

White Darkness choreographed and staged by Juan Ignacio Duato Barcia, aka Nacho Duato, a Spanish modern ballet dancer and choreographer born in Valencia in 1957, world premiered in Madrid in 2001.

Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet, White Darkness, as a eulogy for the untimely loss of a sister that resulted in a tour de force in modern art.  The audience was really moved to the chore by the protagonist, who seeking to run away from sentimental suffering, chooses to bury her pain in drugs, bringing her additional unwanted anxiety, followed by deep sorrow, estrangement and total solitude. The choreographer’s shows the torment of someone addicted to drugs, and their efforts to stop using them. It is not because they lack moral principles or willpower because addiction is a chronic disease where drug seeking becomes compulsive and difficult to control, despite the terrible consequences. Drugs change the brain in ways that make quitting hard and interferes with their ability to resist, with relapse a continuous struggle.

In the case of Duato’s sister it became a lost battle, as in the end of this passionate and dramatic ballet, a lonely woman sinks under a continuous stream of powder, a powerful metaphor of desperation and helplessness symbolizing drug addiction.

Nacho Duato was quoted saying: “I am deeply struck by how sad it is when young people allow drugs to ruin their lives and slip into a dark world, a world so dark, in fact that there is no escape from it.”

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Final scene of White Darkness by Nacho Duato @Alice Blangero _dsc3408

Choreography: Nacho Duato Music: Karl Jenkins (Adiemus Variations, String Quartet nº 2) Scenography: Jaffar Chalabi Costumes: Nacho Duato Lighting: Joop Caboort Staging: Thomas Klein Organization and Production: Carlos Iturrioz-Mediart Producciones SL (Spain). Costumes and Scenography production: Opéra National de Paris

World premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza at Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, November 16, 2001. Premiered by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo on July 26, 2018, Salle Garnier Opéra de Monte-Carlo, July 16-29, 2018

Monaco Info video on the two ballets

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“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.” Shah Asad Rizvi

The Ballets de Monte-Carlo performed two modern masterpieces by dancers turned choreographers The art of contemporary dance in two acts  The Lavender Follies – Souvenirs of cabarets The evening’s double program on Thursday, July 26, 2018, at the Salle Garnier, marked the premiere of…

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.Rosine Bloch (7 November 1844 – 1 February 1891) was a French operatic mezzo-soprano of Jewish descent who had a successful stage career in Europe between 1865 and 1891. She not only possessed a beautiful, warm, and lyrical voice but was also a remarkably beautiful woman physically. Although most of her career was spent performing at the Opéra in Paris, she also appeared in stages in Belgium, Monaco, and England. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Nicolas Levasseur and Charles-Amable Battaille and in 1865 won the Conservatoire's first prize for singing and the first prize for opera. She made her professional opera debut on 13 November 1865 at the Opéra's Salle Le Peletier as Azucena in Giuseppe Verdi's Le trouvère, and continued singing in that theatre, where her most notable roles included Lelia in Félicien David's Herculanumand Léonore in Gaetano Donizetti's La favorite. She also sang Edwige in Gioacchino Rossini's Guillaume Tell (with Jean-Baptiste Faure as Guillaume and Marie Battu as Mathilde in 1868 and with Caroline Carvalho as Mathilde in 1870), and Fidès in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète in 1872. Although Bloch was striking in appearance with an ample, rich-timbred voice, it had become apparent over time that her portrayals lacked the "human quality" necessary for her to become a major star. She also created two roles, Lysis in the world premiere of Jules Duprato's 1-act La Fiancée de Corinthe. Early in 1870 the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet lost its director Jules Pasdeloup, and the artists of that company made a desperate attempt to manage the company on their own. The director of the Opéra, Émile Perrin, magnanimously granted the Lyrique the rights to perform Fromental Halévy's Charles VI, which had first been performed at the Opéra in 1843 and was last seen there in 1850. The soprano Hélène Brunet-Lafleur, who was cast in the leading role of Odette, abandoned the Lyrique's production, and Perrin allowed Bloch to take on the part. The revival was delayed after Bloch became ill with influenza, but eventually opened on 5 April 1870. It was described by a former director of the Opéra, Nestor Roqueplan, as a fiasco, but received 22 representations. However, on 31 May the Théâtre Lyrique folded, and Bloch returned to the Opéra. After the Opéra moved to the Palais Garnier, Bloch repeated some of her roles in new productions at that house, including Léonore in Donizetti's La favorite (21 January 1875, 443rd representation of the opera), and Fidès in the Meyerbeer's Le prophète (16 August 1876, 322nd representation of the opera). She also sang Catarina Cornaro in Halévy's La reine de Chypre (16 August 1877), Queen Gertrude in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet (12 August 1878), and Amneris in the Opéra's first performance of Verdi's Aida (22 March 1880), before retiring from the company.

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Grace Kelly. Rideau De Scène Salle Garnier Opéra De Monte Carlo ©2017

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The Opera de Monte Carlo, also known as Salle Garnier is located in the Monte Carlo district right next to the iconic Casino Square. The opera house was built in 1878 and is decorated in red and gold and has multiple paintings and sculptures all around the inside of the auditorium. http://treasuresoftraveling.com/top-24-places-to-visit-in-monaco/ #TreasuresOfTraveling #Monaco #FrenchRiviera #Mediterranean #MediterraneanCoast #Opera #OperaHouse #Auditorium #MonteCarlo #MonteCarloDistrict #OperaDeMonteCarlo #SalleGarnier #CasinoSquare #Principality #CityCenter #TravelMonaco #Europe #TravelBlogger #TravelPhotography #TravelPhotos #GlobeTrotter #PassportStamps #TravelTheWorld #TourThePlanet #BestPlacesToGo #TheGlobeWanderer #TravelGram #Wanderlust #GuysWhoTravel #GayTraveler (at Opéra de Monte-Carlo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF55wnVAX9f/?igshid=ptzgjholxdkn

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Opéra de Monte-Carlo 🇲🇨 #monaco #montecarlo #opera #operademontecarlo #grimaldi #grimaldifamily #riviera #cotedazur #mediterraneansea #frenchriviera #visitmonaco #architecture #archilovers #royal #royalty #prince #principautedemonaco #garnier #charlesgarnier #decor #palace #gold #design #style #beauty #music #operahouse #concerthall (à Opéra de Monte-Carlo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVgolKL8Oj/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Dernier rayon by Jean Via Flickr: Architecture The casino was built by the architect Charles Garnier who also created the Paris opéra. It is distinctly Beaux Arts - an Empire style referred to by Garnier (regarding the Paris Opéra) as "Napoleon III." History In 1854 gambling was legalized by prince Florestan I. The first casino was opened in 1856 in a villa near the harbour. Prince Charles the Third ordered the construction of a new quarter called Monte Carlo. A new casino was also part of this plan. The construction of the current building started in 1858. To make the casino more successful a 50-year concession to operate the gaming rooms was granted to a private individual named François Blanc In 1861. The new facility opened in 1863. Since 1898 the concession has been operated by the Société des Bains de Mer. In 1910 the building was expanded with a theatre. The casino in movies James Bond, fictional British spy and protagonist of the Bond book and movie series, is often associated with the city's glamorous Belle Époque casino. This was a model for the setting of Ian Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953), 'Royale-Les-Eaux' being a fictional resort in the style of Monte Carlo. The real Monte Carlo and its casino provided one of the locations for the James Bond movies, Never Say Never Again, Casino Royale and GoldenEye. Wikipedia