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French top dancer Manuel Legris to lead Vienna opera ballets
2009-01-08
VIENNA (AFP) - French star dancer Manuel Legris will take over the Vienna Opera and Popular Opera ballets in 2010, the two companies announced Thursday. Legris, an "etoile" of the Paris Opera, will replace current ballet director Gyula Harangozo of Hungary, whose five-year term runs out in September 2010. He will also lead the Opera's ballet school. Legris, 44, quickly rose through the ranks of the prestigious Paris Opera after joining the corps de ballet at 16, and was named "etoile," the top distinction for ballet dancers, in 1986 by then ballet director Rudolf Nureyev. The French dancer, who will officially bid farewell to the Paris Opera on May 15, has already performed on several occasions as a guest at the Vienna institution. Austrian Culture Minister Claudia Schmied welcomed the announcement Thursday, describing Legris as "one of the leading dancers of our time."
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