Louise Narboni

Après un rêve

Louise Narboni

Élise Ladoué, Barbara Carlotti

Neither a fiction nor a documentary, it is a film-dance. Not a narrative, but a journey through the Villeneuve area of Grenoble. No characters, but energies, encounters. The body of a dancer in the city. An essay of re-enchantment.

The Great Ghosts

Yoann Bourgeois, Louise Narboni

Yurié Tsugawa, Elise Legros

When dancer, choreographer and acrobat Yoann Bourgeois was invited by the Center des Monuments Nationaux to create a performance for the Pantheon in Paris, he chose the fight against gravity as his leitmotif. “The Mechanics of History – an attempt to approach a point of suspension” became a dizzying performance that took place in the ridge of this historic dome. The Great Ghosts is a cinematographic adaptation of this special project in a breathtaking setting. Balance and movement are the starting points for the choreography, with the famous Foucault Pendulum as the constant center. Bourgeois uses trampolines, a turntable and his famous “seesaw of frivolity”, with which he defies gravity and balances between beauty and fear. How far do the dancers dare to go while playing with Foucault’s Pendulum? And for how long?

Artaserse

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Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cenčić

Mes chers espions

Vladimir Léon

Louise Narboni, Svetlana Léon

Two brothers, Pierre and Vladimir, wonder if their Russian grandparents, Lily and Constantin, worked for the Soviet secret services in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s. Their research begins in Russia. After meetings and conversations, yellowish photos and vodka glasses, a lost world begins to emerge harassing the present.

Love: Chapter 2

Louise Narboni

Gon Biran, Rebecca Hytting

Six dancers, propelled by Ori Lichtik’s thrumming electronic score, circle each other with a livewire fluidity choreographed by Sharon Eyal.

Chanson Triste

Louise Narboni

Elodie Fonnard, Ahmad Shinwari

This is the story of a lyrical singer and an Afghan refugee. With songs and introspection, hope and disappointment.

Le Nozze di Figaro

James Gray, Louise Narboni

Anna Aglatova, Robert Gleadow

In this new "Marriage of Figaro", Jérémie Rhorer revisits this composer and US film director James Gray makes his first foray into opera. This opera is recorded for broadcast by Louise Narboni.

Rain

Louise Narboni

Valentine Colasante, Muriel Zusperreguy

Recording of a performance by Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris of the ballet on Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Helene Grimaud - Strauss & Ravel

Louise Narboni

Hélène Grimaud, Vladimir Jurowski

In January 2009 at Paris's Cité de la Musique, the internationally renowned conductor Vladimir Jurowski led the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a varied and imaginative programme that included Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Metamorphosen, as well as Ravel's Piano Concerto in G. Their sensitive and insightful performance is reproduced here in full, and they are joined by award-winning French pianist Hélène Grimaud in a lively rendition of Ravel's concerto, in which soloist and orchestra expertly tease out its whimsical lyricism and sonorous harmonies.

Cinématon XXXII

Gérard Courant

Sarenco, Franco Verdi

Reel 32 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

Louise Narboni

Ekaterina Semenchuk, Gregory Kunde

The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. It is the only opera by Saint-Saëns that is regularly performed. The second act love scene in Delilah's tent is one of the set pieces that define French opera. Two of Delilah's arias are particularly well known: "Printemps qui commence" and "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix", the latter of which is one of the most popular recital pieces in the mezzo-soprano/contralto repertoire. Staged by greek director Yannis Kokkos and conducted by Valery Gergiev on May 25th, 2016 at the Mariinsky Theatre.