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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.
A village in Galicia, once an Austro-Hungarian province on the Carpathian slope. A festival honors a new carillon for the town’s bell-tower. Dr. Coppélius, toy-maker, inventor, and magician exhibits his masterwork, Coppélia, a life-sized doll whom he thinks of as a daughter.
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.
15 paź 2024 · Although City Ballet is known for its signature plotless dances, it delights me to see the company tell stories from time to time. Coppélia, a comedic ballet in three acts, resembles a great page-turner – it is enchanting, thrilling, and leaves one wanting more… that is, until it didn’t.
17 lut 2014 · The spunky heroine does not die of a broken heart but marries her hooligan lover – after exposing his secret sweetheart as a windup doll. Onstage nearly from beginning to end, the high-spirited ...
