Bal de l'opéra

Bal de l'opéra

10th October 2009
Washington DC
project //
Opera Gala Benefit Soirée
at the residence of the French Ambassador
to Washington
ambassador //
Pierre Vimont
project manager //
Julien Pavillard
staging artist //
Mourka Glogowski
silhouettes //
Miss Clara
Headdresses //
Marie Noël-Baron
counter-tenor //
Steven Rickards
production France //
Bertrand Bigot
Manu Marmier
production USA //
Mike Seaten, Frost Lighting
production Residence //
Stan Verpoort
head chef //
Bertrand Bellengier
opera production //
Patti Humpfrey
photography //
Julien Pavillard,
Manu Marmier
Mourka Glogowski
financing //
Mécène privé
thanks to //
His Excellence Ambassador Pierre Vimont,
the staff of the residence,
the interns,
Manu and Marie,
Marc Fénéry
Julien Pavillard
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Opera atmosphere at the Ambassador

Bathed in a red light reminiscent of the opera, a countertenor and a mezzo-soprano dressed in costumes and headdresses garlanded with lights welcomed guests at the entrance to the Residence. They handed guests copies of their lyrics in elegant scrolls bound with jewels. At the windows, elegant silhouettes represented the spectators.

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A midsummer night’s dream

In the garden, the magical night was illuminated with trees bathed in ethereal blue. Guests strolled in the gardens, guided by threads of light tracing the outline of a French formal garden on the grass. Chandeliers hanging from the branches of a tree were a poetic reminder of the glamour of the opera. Dotted here and there around the pool with its luminous water lilies, exotic flowers gleamed in the night.

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Installation

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Making-off - images Marie & Manu, montage Mourka

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project //
Opera Gala Benefit Soirée
at the residence of the French Ambassador
to Washington
ambassador //
Pierre Vimont
project manager //
Julien Pavillard
staging artist //
Mourka Glogowski
silhouettes //
Miss Clara
Headdresses //
Marie Noël-Baron
counter-tenor //
Steven Rickards
production France //
Bertrand Bigot
Manu Marmier
production USA //
Mike Seaten, Frost Lighting
production Residence //
Stan Verpoort
head chef //
Bertrand Bellengier
opera production //
Patti Humpfrey
photography //
Julien Pavillard,
Manu Marmier
Mourka Glogowski
financing //
Mécène privé
thanks to //
His Excellence Ambassador Pierre Vimont,
the staff of the residence,
the interns,
Manu and Marie,
Marc Fénéry
Julien Pavillard
For more information, go to
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