Violette Verdy returns to Paris Opera Ballet

Distinguished Professor Violette Verdy has been invited again to the Paris Opera Ballet, for the months of March and April 2012. The company’s director, Brigitte Lefevre, has invited Verdy as a guest teacher, and the school director, Elisabeth Platel, has invited her to teach, as well as to stage one of her own ballets: Variations on a Theme of Paganini. Verdy originally choreographed the piece for the company of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1979 while she was director there. So, after 30-plus years, the piece will once again come to life on the stage of the Palais Garnier (April 7-13, 2012).