Thierry Reboul, the executive director of ceremonies for Paris 2024, has revealed details about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, scheduled for July 28 on the Seine.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is starting to take shape. Speaking on the RMC podcast “Paris 2024, le grand défi,” Thierry Reboul, the executive director of ceremonies, creations, and special projects for Paris 2024, shared some information about the details of the opening of the Games, set for July 26. Reboul first emphasized that the ceremony “relies on the creation of a stadium. Since, in fact, the river, the river that crosses Paris, we have to build a stadium of 100,000 seats over two 6 km long stretches, which are the paid seats that will be on the lower banks. (…) Building a 12 km long stadium is a small matter.”
Details on the artistic content
The ceremony’s organizer also revealed that everything is outlined in the program. He slipped in some information about the content of the ceremony: “It will be twelve tableaux that will follow one after another.”
“In fact, the athletes’ parade will pass through these twelve tableaux. And the ceremony will unfold a bit like a stream, following this parade. We will move from one tableau to another.” – Thierry Reboul (RMC SPORTS)
Thierry Reboul also specified that the artistic director, Thomas Jolly, would base the ceremony on the athletes’ parade as the backbone of the event. According to him, it has been designed “like a film”: “a billion, a billion and a half, two billion, we’re not sure, but we are promised the largest audience in the history of the Games, with people who will follow it. So we are focusing a lot on that and we will make it like a film. A film of over three hours.”
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