LÉONORE BAULAC

Principal Dancer
of the Paris Opera Ballet

Léonore Baulac joined the Paris Opera Ballet School in 2005. She entered the Paris Opera Ballet corps in 2008. She was promoted to Coryphée in 2014 and received the AROP Dance Prize.
She became Sujet in 2015 and then Première Danseuse the following year. Léonore Baulac was named Étoile on December 31, 2016, after her performance in Swan Lake by Rudolf Nureyev, where she portrayed the role of Odette/Odile for the first time.
As part of the official tours of the Paris Opera Ballet, she has performed in Australia (Sydney, 2013), Quebec (Montreal, 2014), Denmark (Copenhagen, 2015), the United States (New York, 2017), Russia (Novosibirsk, 2018), Spain (Madrid, 2019), Asia (Shanghai and Singapore, 2019), and Japan (Tokyo, 2020).

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ELENA BONNAY

Pianist

Of Russian origin, Elena Bonnay graduated from the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow. Since 1983, she has held the position of rehearsal pianist for the Ballet of the Paris Opera. Her career is divided between her work at the Opera, where she accompanies dance across the full range of the pianistic repertoire, and her collaborations in contemporary works (M. Constant, P. Sciortino, P. Hersant, G. Beytelmann, P. Glass, etc.). She has toured with the Ballet as a solo pianist in the United States, China, Japan, and Brazil. Infusing a spiritual dimension into dance, her musicality and sense of performance have been recognized by numerous choreographers as well as by the soloists and Étoiles of the Paris Opera.
At the Opera, Elena Bonnay regularly performs with renowned orchestras. She has notably played Bach’s concertos, Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 3 (with national orchestras in Beijing and Ferrara), and Mozart’s concertos (San Francisco Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Music Orchestra, Paris Opera Orchestra). Passionate about world music, she is a member of the Quinquet Nuevo Tango Tangamente and performs in France and abroad with bandoneonist and accordionist Max Bonnay.