Maillot ballet joins Paris Opera's permanent repertoire
By Zak Jackson, MonacoViews Editorial
Jean-Christophe Maillot has spent recent weeks rehearsing Paris Opera stars as one of his ballets enters the company's repertoire.
Jean-Christophe Maillot, the choreographer-director who has led the Ballets de Monte-Carlo since 1993, has spent the past weeks working directly with étoiles at the Opéra national de Paris to stage one of his works for inclusion in the company's repertoire. For a choreographer so closely tied to Monaco's own ballet company, based at the Salle Garnier in Monte-Carlo, seeing a piece taken up permanently by the Paris Opera marks a significant professional milestone.
Maillot has described the project as marking a particular point in both his career and his personal life, underlining how closely his artistic output remains bound to decades spent shaping the Ballets de Monte-Carlo's identity. The company he leads has long built its reputation on original choreography rather than classical revivals, making this recognition from one of the world's most prominent opera and ballet institutions notable for Monaco's wider cultural standing.
For Monaco residents who follow the Ballets de Monte-Carlo's seasons at the Grimaldi Forum and the Salle Garnier, the news reinforces the Principality's position as a serious centre of dance, with its leading creative figure now shaping repertoire well beyond the Rocher.