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OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS PRESENT: THE BAYADEREC is on the stage of the Palais Garnier that dancer Rudolf Noureev reveals himself to the Western audience in 1961 and on the same scene that the choreographer greets the public for the last time in 1992, on the occasion of his version of La Bayadère. The ultimate work, this ballet adapted by Marius Petipa reflects Noureev's passion for the great ballets in the repertoire as well as his taste for flamboyance. In a fantasy India, where a gigantic elephant parades in front of the sumptuous palace of the rajah and where a golden idol follows a dance of fans, the ballet tells of the upset loves of the warrior Solor with the bayadere Nikiya, a sacred dancer.Joyau of the repertoire of the Opéra national de Paris, La Bayadère dazzles with its virtuoso variations, its impressive ensembles and the purity of his "Act of Shadows" during which 32 dancers in white tutus slowly draw their arabesques, with poetry that comes from magic.