Chopin: La Dame aux camélias (Paris Opera Ballet)

Based on the Alexandre Dumas novel that also inspired the stories of Verdis La Traviata and Hollywoods Moulin Rouge, John Neumeier creates a riveting dance drama around the famous woman of lore, La Dame aux camélias. The passionate tale of Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval unfolds ingeniously through a drama-within-a-drama as they meet at the theatre during a performance of Manon Lescaut. So begin their romantic adventures in Paris, brought to life by Neumeiers intense and refined choreographic language. Chopins ravishing music highlights this exceptional neo-classical ballet, featuring the star dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet. This lavish production, filmed live at the Palais Garnier in High Definition and full surround sound, is all about love, passion, danger and glorious dancing from one of the best ballet companies in the world.

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• ''Opus
• Arte''
• ''Chopin''
• ''La
• Dame
• aux
• camélias''
• Agnès Letestu
• Stéphane Bullion
• Michaël Denard
• Dorothée Gilbert
• Delphine Moussin
• José Martinez
• Karl Paquette
• Laurent Novis
• Béatrice Martel
• Simon Valastro
• Paris Opera Ballet
• Opera national de Paris
• Michael Schmidtsdorff
• John Neumeier
• Chopin
• Manon Lescaut
• Palais Garnier

[SsteinwayS]

Wow! Chopin goes beautifully with dance - it's emotional, exquisite, and expressive. Unique idea. I love the g minor Ballade heard here!

[SsteinwayS]

So watch you're saying is that it's neither, but all of them. Fair enough! :) "Pretty Woman" is actually no really based on Traviata (oops sorry...got carried away!) - that's the one that features a lot from Traviata.

[jasjjb]

The entire performance was on TV Stvdio 132 in Australia yesterday. I am not an experienced ballet watcher but what I saw and heard was really wonderful !!! Thank you for this ( too short) piece !!

[Schubert958]

Saw the whole performance on tv last week. Beautiful.

[jaybee2425460]

where's the rest of this?

[19bluebug]

Exquisite! Superbly danced

[misshalicious]

Alexandre Dumas the son not the father.

They were both talented though.

[AcemanJones]

Finally, the plot line of the writer who travels to the "under-world" of the Moulin Rouge to find his love and tries to take her back to the "upper-world" comes from "Orpheus in the Underworld", which is an adaption of the ancient Greek "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth. "La Traviata" is based on Alexandre Dumas père' "Camille", while "La Boheme" is an adaptation of Henri Murger's "La Vie de la Boheme".

[AcemanJones]

I don't know about "Pretty Woman", but...

The plot of the movie essentially derives from three operas/operettas. The plot line of a young writer with Bohemian friends who falls in love with a sick girl that eventually dies is from "La Bohème". (Baz Luhrmann directed a stage production of "La Bohème" in Sydney as well as a Broadway production in New York.) The plot line of a courtesan who learns that love can also be true and idealistic comes from "La Traviata".

[SsteinwayS]

Oh I didn't read all of the description for this video...but actually, the movie "Pretty Woman" is based on Traviata, and so is "Moulin Rouge". Don't you remember? Nicole Kidman plays the entertainer who becomes ill and dies in Moulin Rouge!

[AcemanJones]

Right. Dame aux camélias is a ballet based on the novel of the same name, which was also made into an opera (Traviata).

Another opera, La Boheme, was made into a Hollywood movie, Moulin Rouge.

I was correcting the clip information, which says: "....(this ballet is) based on the Alexandre Dumas novel that also inspired the stories of Verdis La Traviata and Hollywoods Moulin Rouge...", which is not correct.