Opera station: a serious game

Each season, the Palais Garnier serves as the setting for a few so-called “non-classical” shows, put on in the name of a marketing statement as hollow as agreed: “dusting off the opera”. Warning signal which should lead to distrust. Indeed, these gadget productions at often pharaonic cost are generally pretentious and useless. With rare exceptions, such as the work commissioned from Alexander Ekman in 2017. Dazzling success at the time of its creation, Play emerges from the workshops of the Paris Opera for a cover that will allow the public to admire the overflowing imagination of the young Swedish choreographer. […]