FAREWELL OPERA (75')
INFORMATION
FR / 2025 / 75’ / HD / French, EnglishLes Films d'Ici / Opéra de Paris / Arte France / Directed by Yonathan Kellerman
Worldwide rights available
TAGS
Principal dancer
SYNOPSIS
42 is the age at which dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet leave the stage, after an extraordinary professional career. Alice Renavand, Stéphane Bullion, and Aurélia Bellet agreed to be filmed during their final year of activity, leading up to their farewell performance. Preparation, doubts, challenges, solidarity, injuries, twists and turns, and reflections on the cycle of life shape this singular year.
Through a spectacular immersion in an institution whose prestige extends worldwide, Farewell Opera offers a moving and unexpected reflection on a major social issue: retirement — a milestone we will all face, but which these dancers, at the peak of their abilities, experience twenty years early.