Basque National Orchestra and Malandain Ballet Biarritz at the "Versailles Festival: Les Voix Royales”

The Basque National Orchestra joins Malandain Ballet Biarritz, directed by Thierry Malandain, in a new production of Cinderella. This is the second time the two will perform together, on this occasion wrapping up the BNO's 15th Season Concerts programme. The event will take place on June 3rd and 4th at the Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastián and on June 17th at Bilbao's Palacio Euskalduna. Before this final concert, the Basque National Orchestra and Malandain will travel to Paris to perform Cinderella (Cendrillon) at the Royal Opera of Versailles as part of the Versailles Festival. The event will be held on June 7th, 8th and 9th.

Cinderella, a new pas de deux by the Basque National Orchestra and Malandain Ballet Biarritz. After successfully joining forces in 2011 in the production of Magifique, in which the Orchestra played music by Tchaikovsky, the BNO and Malandain Ballet Biarritz are back together with Cinderella. 

A first at the Versailles Festival, the third summer programme of the prestigious Château de Versailles Spectacles. The Versailles Festival, which this year will feature the Malandain Ballet Biarritz and the Basque National Orchestra, offers one of the most formidable programmes on the European circuit. The concert series known as Château de Versailles Spectacles hosts 70 shows from September to June at the Opéra Royal and other spectacular settings at the Palace of Versailles.

Under the title "Les Voix Royales" (royal voices), the third edition of the Versailles Festival, running from May 31st to July 7th, features such notable names as Sir John Eliot Gardiner and The English Baroque Soloists, Jordi Savall, Magdalena Kozena, Cecilia Bartoli, Diego Fasolis, Orchestre National de Montpelier, Monteverdi Choir and Choeur Accentus. The performance venues include the Opéra Royal, Chapelle Royal and Galerie des Glaces at the Versalles Palace, just outside Paris. Featured alongside these names are the Basque National Orchestra and Malandain Ballet Biarritz. 

This new international tour is the 15th in the Basque National Orchestra's history and marks the Orchestra's debut at one of the most spectacular stages in all of Europe: the Versailles Palace Royal Opera.

More information