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Jul 6, 2024 · The French Romantics seized this counter-Enlightenment impulse and made it their own. La Sylphide struck a chord in the hearts of many, precisely during a time when it was most needed. The public went crazy over La Sylphide .
Bournonville’s La Sylphide premiered in Copenhagen in 1836 with his protégé Lucile Grahn in the title role and Bournonville himself as James. While Filippo Taglioni’s version fell out of the spotlight a few years after it premeired, Bournonville’s La Sylphide has been a part of the Royal Danish Ballet’s repertory ever since.
La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836.
Oct 29, 2023 · French ballet master and choreographer Marius Petipa decided to restage the original 1832 Taglioni production of La Sylphide at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1892. The ballet (and the opera) played a significant role in Russian society in the late nineteenth century.
Jan 31, 2023 · La Sylphide, whose central characters are a ghost-like creature and a young Scottish lad, is a prime example of how Bournonville used what may seem, at first glance, to be an improbable or impossible scenario to obliquely trigger a viewer’s imagination, emotions, and reflection.
Feb 23, 1986 · SAN FRANCISCO — One approached the War Memorial Opera House either with anticipatory glee, or with trepidation. It depended on one’s prejudices. For the first time in its spotty 53-year history,...
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Sep 30, 2017 · On Wednesday 1 July 2020, we’re showing La Sylphide, a recreation of August Bournonville’s version by Frank Andersen and Eva Kloborg. Bournonville’s production is actually an adaptation of an 1832 French ballet by Filippo Taglioni, which signalled the dawn of a new, Romantic era of ballet, but it is Bournonville’s interpretation that ...
