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A DELIGHFULLY COMEDIC TALE OF BUDDING ROMANCE. The rare full-length ballet highlighted by generous doses of comedy, Coppélia returns to the repertory to mark the 50th anniversary of Balanchine’s 1974 staging. Drawing on the Petipa production, Balanchine collaborated with the great Russian dancer Alexandra Danilova, renowned for her ...
The delightful tale of a mad inventor and the life-like doll he creates, The New York Times calls Coppélia "story ballet done to perfection." Coppélia , considered one of the greatest comic ballets of the 19th Century, has remained one of the best-loved classical works in the ballet repertory.
Conductor: Andrew LittonChoreography by George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova after Marius Petipa
13 wrz 2024 · My own fondness for this score goes all the way back to 2013, when I was asked, “Would you come and conduct Coppélia at New York City Ballet?” I had certainly heard of the ballet and was familiar with the mazurka and the famous waltz from the radio, but I didn't know it otherwise.
This season’s performances — Sept. 27-29 and Oct. 5-6 — are City Ballet’s 50th anniversary celebration of the ballet. “Coppelia” was first choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1870, and then reworked by Marius Petipa in 1884 into the version we know today.
17 lut 2014 · Alexandra Danilova, a famous Swanilda in her day and a star of various Ballets Russes, first encountered Petipa’s Coppélia with Balanchine when they were schoolmates at the Russian Imperial...
1 cze 2018 · Coppélia is branded as a comedy, and on one of New York’s first truly summery days of 2018, with everyone eating gelato in the plaza at Lincoln Center, a cute comedy that ends in marriage seems an apropos way to celebrate the onset of the season.
