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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.
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.
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 .
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 ...
The Sylph was a lightning rod for the disenchanted, an embodiment of the desire for an idealized escape from the predictability of everyday into passionate emotion and spontaneity.
La Sylphide is one of the world’s oldest surviving romantic ballets – but what exactly does the term “romantic ballet” mean? When was this period and how did it affect the ballet world?
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Jun 16, 2009 · “La Sylphide,” with its ethereal heroine dancing on point and its human hero forever trying to grasp her, changed ballet at its Parisian premiere in 1832.
