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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.
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.
Comic ballet. Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes) [1]) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.
Onstage nearly from beginning to end, the high-spirited Swanilda counts as one of Coppélia’s principal pleasures. The other – particular to this 1974 New York City Ballet production – is ...
23 wrz 2024 · The plucky London City Ballet collapsed in 1996. Now it’s getting a second life with a new mission: to stage little-known, small-scale works.
‘Coppelia’ is one of New York City Ballet’s sunniest productions. It is a great introduction to the ballet for those both young and young-at-heart. ‘Coppelia’ tells the story of Swanilda and her fiancé, Frantz. Frantz falls in love with Coppelia, a doll built by the eccentric Dr. Coppelius.
1 sty 2009 · The New York City Ballet's Coppélia has turned thirty-five this year—on July 17, 1974, it premiered at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, as Balanchine promised—and its coral anniversary...
