Best Roland Petit
*Le Jeune Homme et la Mort*, choreographed by Roland Petit, is a ballet inspired by Edgar Degas’s painting. It dramatically explores themes of youth, mortality, and hedonism using expressive movement set to Bach's music. The work is notable for its intensely emotional and expressionist style, appeal...
Roland Petit's *Carmen* is a full-length ballet adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera. The work dramatically portrays Carmen's story—a tale of passionate love and tragic defiance—through intense choreography and evocative music. It’s notable for its visceral performances and exploration of Spanish cul...
Roland Petit’s *Notre-Dame de Paris* is a full-length ballet adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel. The production vividly portrays the history of Notre Dame Cathedral and the passionate, ultimately doomed relationship between the hunchback Quasimodo and the street dancer Esmeralda. It's notable for its...
“Cyrano de Bergerac” (Roland Petit’s 1976 production) is a highly stylized and intensely emotional ballet exploring themes of love, sacrifice, and physical beauty through dramatic partnering and expressive choreography within a stark, minimalist setting.
L’Arlesienne, choreographed by Roland Petit in 1937, is a passionate and intensely physical ballet exploring themes of rural Provençal life and the allure of the region through its evocative music by Paul Dukas and dramatic movement vocabulary.
