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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.
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 .
One of the world’s oldest existing romantic ballets, La Sylphide originally premiered on March 12, 1832 in Paris, with now lost choreography by Filippo Taglioni. A success, the ballet was re-choreographed in 1836 by the Danish ballet master August Bournonville.
Sep 30, 2017 · It is not only one of the oldest ballets in existence, but a pillar of the Romantic tradition. A sylph, like the one our hero James is bewitched by, is a mythological spirit of the air. As far as we know, the term first appears in the 16 th Century works of a Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer called Paracelsus.
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.
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August Bournonville’s La Sylphide, one of the oldest ballets in existence, was born from an 1832 French ballet by Filippo Taglioni which signalled the dawn of a new, Romantic era of ballet....
