{"id":2038513,"date":"2016-12-09T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2016\/12\/09\/rolex-exclusive-watch-of-the-opera-national-de-paris\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:56:59","slug":"rolex-exclusive-watch-of-the-opera-national-de-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2016\/12\/09\/rolex-exclusive-watch-of-the-opera-national-de-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolex, Exclusive Watch of the Op\u00e9ra National de Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>the occasion of the 2016-2017 season of the Op\u00e9ra national de Paris<\/strong>, Rolex, a major partner of the arts world, reiterates its support for this unique creative venue as the <strong>Opera&#8217;s Exclusive Watch since 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>True to Hans Wilsdorf&#8217;s founding vision, Rolex has been accompanying renowned artists such as German tenor <strong>Jonas Kaufmann <\/strong>and Bulgarian soprano <strong>Sonya Yoncheva<\/strong> since the 1970s,<br \/>\n<strong>two Rolex Testimonies in the new opera season calendar <\/strong>, and is associated with prestigious programs such as <em>Operalia<\/em>, the international singing competition founded by Placido Domingo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolexmentorprotege.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Rolex Mentor and Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Arts Initiative<\/strong><\/a>a philanthropic initiative designed to associate promising young artists with great masters for a year in a personalized creative relationship, is part of this dynamic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three works by mentors from the <em>Rolex Mentor &amp; Prot\u00e9g\u00e9<\/em> program have also been added to the Ballet de l&#8217;Op\u00e9ra repertoire: <\/strong><br \/>\nby <strong>William Forsythe<\/strong> (<em>&#8220;Blake works&#8221;<\/em>),<strong>Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker <\/strong>(<em>&#8220;Drumming Live&#8221;<\/em>) and <strong>Philip Glass <\/strong>(<em>&#8220;In Creases&#8221;<\/em>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 26 to October 9: <em>&#8220;In Creases&#8221;. <\/em><strong>Music by Philip Glass<\/strong> and choreography by Justin Peck<\/li>\n<li>September 26 to October 9: <em>&#8220;Blake works&#8221;. <\/em>Music by James Blake and <strong>choreography by William Forsythe <\/strong> <\/li>\n<li>October 31 to November 27, 2016: <em>&#8220;Les Contes d&#8217;Hoffmann<\/em> &#8221; with Jonas Kaufmann<\/li>\n<li>January 18 to February 18, 2017: <em>&#8220;Lohengrin&#8221;<\/em> with <strong>Jonas Kaufmann<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>May 16 to June 14, 2017: <em>&#8220;Eugene Onegin&#8221;<\/em> with <strong>Sonya Yoncheva<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>July 1-15, 2017: <em>&#8220;Drumming Live&#8221;.<\/em> Music by Steve Reich and <strong>choreography by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Le_magnifique_plafond_du_Palais_Garnier_oeuvre_de_Marc_Chagall_BD.jpeg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-188929\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-188929 size-full\" title=\"le_magnifique_plafond_du_palais_garnier_oeuvre_de_marc_chagall_bd-jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Le_magnifique_plafond_du_Palais_Garnier_oeuvre_de_Marc_Chagall_BD.jpeg\" width=\"371\" height=\"338\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Le_magnifique_plafond_du_Palais_Garnier_oeuvre_de_Marc_Chagall_BD.jpeg 371w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Le_magnifique_plafond_du_Palais_Garnier_oeuvre_de_Marc_Chagall_BD-300x273.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Jean-Pierre Delagarde\/Op\u00e9ra national de Paris\/Chagall\u00ae\/\u00a92016, ProLitteris, Zurich<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the 2016-2017 season of the Op\u00e9ra national de Paris, Rolex, a major partner of the arts world, reiterates its support for this unique creative venue as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30094,30122],"tags":[70475,30963],"class_list":["post-2038513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-en","category-watches-and-jewelry","tag-opera-national-de-paris","tag-rolex-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}