Millepied will inherit one of the world’s greatest classical troupes.
After a while I did feel there was a really good chance I might get the position. “I was surprised, but I felt very quickly that the artistic dialogue between us was an exciting one. “I certainly knew about the position, but I also knew that there were candidates from within the company,” Mr. In the Paris Opera hierarchy, the director of dance’s artistic policy is subject to the approval of the general director, but in past decades there has been little interference or involvement. Millepied said he was approached relatively recently, in mid-November, by Stéphane Lissner, artistic director of La Scala, who is to succeed Mr.
In an interview on Wednesday at his hotel here, Mr. He retired in 2011 to focus on choreography, and moved to Los Angeles, where he founded the L.A. His subsequent professional career as a dancer was spent with City Ballet, where he rose quickly through the ranks to become a principal dancer in 2002. Millepied, 35, was born in Bordeaux and trained at the Lyon Conservatory, he joined the School of American Ballet as a teenager. The shortlist was considered to come from a small group of Paris Opera Ballet insiders, including the star dancers, or étoiles, Nicolas Le Riche, due to retire in 2014, and Laurent Hilaire, a ballet master with the company and Ms. Millepied’s appointment comes as a surprise as it was generally expected that a current or former company member would be chosen to lead one of the world’s grandest and most traditional ensembles. The announcement was made at the Palais Garnier by the general director of the Paris Opera, Nicolas Joel, ends months of intense speculation surrounding the successor to Brigitte Lefèvre, the director of dance at the Paris Opera since 1995 who plans to retire at the end of the 2013-14 season. Benjamin Millepied, the choreographer and a former principal at New York City Ballet, will be the new director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet, starting in September 2014.
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