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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.
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.
Coppélia celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with New York City Ballet and returns to the stage for the fall 2024 season. It’s not often we get to see the company perform a full length...
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.
Conductor: Andrew LittonChoreography by George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova after Marius Petipa
29 wrz 2024 · Coppélia. : 50 years strong. By Ivy Lin, 29 September 2024. Balanchine had a reputation as the father of neoclassical ballet, and his trademark works were his black and white leotard works like Agon and Four Temperaments. But a part of him also adored old-fashioned Petipa classics.
