Performances
Ballet
Paquita
Pierre Lacotte
From 11 to 26 June 2025
| 2 hours and 5 minutes circa intermission included | |
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company and Orchestra With the participation of the students of the Teatro alla Scala Academy's Ballet School Teatro alla Scala New Production Ph. Paris Opera Ballet © Christian Leiber |
| Choreography after Joseph Mazilier and Marius Petipa | PIERRE LACOTTE |
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| revived by | JEAN-GUILLAUME BART, GIL ISOART |
| Music (Editions Mario Bois; Italian representative Edizioni Curci) | EDMÉ DELDEVEZ, LUDWIG MINKUS |
| DAVID COLEMAN | |
| Sets and costumes | LUISA SPINATELLI |
| Set and Costume Designer Assistant | MONIA TORCHIA |
| Lights | ANDREA GIRETTI |
| Conductor | PAUL CONNELLY |
In brief
In picturesque nineteenth-century Spain under Napoleonic occupation, the thwarded love between the French officer Lucien d’Hervilly and the gypsy Paquita culminates in felicitous marriage after various adventures and revelations. A specialist in the reconstruction of ballets from the romantic repertoire, in 2001 Pierre Lacotte recovered and gave new life to this lost treasure, which breaks with the cliché of the ballet blanc to give us a realistic tale and a protagonist in flesh and blood. The complex plot is set off against a thrilling display of virtuoso dancing and lyricism. In homage to the recently deceased Pierre Lacotte, an important new debut for La Scala and its Ballet Company, which now adds to its repertoire, with a new staging, its first Paquita.
2 hours and 5 minutes circa intermission includedFIRST ACT, first scene 41’
Set change in music
2’
FIRST ACT, second scene 11’
Intermission
25’
SECOND ACT 46’
End
