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Roland Petit's Le jeune homme et la mort, music by Bach : With Marie-Agnès Gillot and Nicolas Le Riche / Denis Caïozzi, director.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets.
- Genre:
- Filmed ballets.
- Ballets (Dance)
- Internet videos.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (19 min., 42 sec.)) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Jeune homme et la mort
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Opéra national de Paris, Telmondis, 2005.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- 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 conception, from the dark, dingy apartment of the Young Man to the disturbing yellow dress and jet-black coiffe of the villainess. A mesmerizing drama in dance as virtuosic as it is unsettling! The ballet's libretto by the great Jean Cocteau tells the story of a young man whose faithless lover drives him to commit suicide. Set to Respighi's orchestral arrangement of J.S. Bach's monumental Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor for organ (BWV 582), the ballet functions as a dialogue between the two dancers and the music, which interface more or less indirectly until they unite for the heartrending climax. Photo: © David Jensen.
- Contents:
- Le Jeune homme et la Mort / Roland Petit.
- Participant:
- Dancers, Marie-Agnès Gillot ; Nicolas Le Riche ; Le corps de ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris ; Orchestre Colonne ; Paul Connelly, conductor.
- Credits:
- Choreography by Roland Petit (the 1st to a scenario by Jean Cocteau); set designer, Georges Wakhévitch.
- Notes:
- "Live from the Opéra national de Paris, 2005."
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 1125950480
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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