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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.
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.
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....
Jul 6, 2024 · The Classical Girl examines the 1832 ballet, La Sylphide, the earliest important classical ballet in the repertoire, and why it mattered, then and now.
May 21, 2019 · The original choreography for the ballet La Sylphide was created by Filippo Taglioni. ACT I: A Scottish Manor. The young Scotsman James is asleep by the fireside on the morning of his wedding today when he is awakened by the kiss of a vanishing sylph.
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Jun 16, 2009 · This production, originally staged in 1971 by Erik Bruhn (a famous interpreter both of James and the witch Madge), is generally fine and attractive. A few inauthenticities are bothersome.
