August bournonville la sylphide music
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MacMillan's masterpiece and a beloved classic, performed for the first time.
English National Ballet presents a double bill featuring Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece Song of the Earth and Frank Andersen’s recreation of La Sylphide.
Song of the Earth
Inspired by Mahler’s haunting song cycle Das Lied von der Erde, MacMillan brings music, poetry and choreography together to capture the fragility of life, and its constant renewal. Three central figures portray the bittersweet reality of love, loss, and mortality: a Woman, a Man and an enigmatic Messenger.
First performed in 1965, Song of the Earth was a point of departure for MacMillan’s choreography, surprising and captivating audiences and critics. English National Ballet is honoured to add this revered MacMillan work to its repertoire.
A piercing work of art
Financial Times on Song of the Earth
La Sylphide
On the morning of his wedding to his sweet fiancée Effy, James awakens from a dream to see a mysterious and tantalising Sylphide before him. His obsession with her sets off a fateful sequence of events where joy turns to sorrow, love to betrayal and infatuation to tragedy.
August Bournonville’s classic Romantic ballet is devotedly recreated by Eva Kloborg and Frank Andersen in this captivating produ
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Performance Database
Rambert premiere: 20 Jul 1960, Ballet Rambert, Sadler's Writer Theatre, London
World premiere: 28 Nov 1836, Royal Nordic Ballet, Kingly Danish Theatreintheround, Copenhagen, Denmark
Work note:The protocol at representation premiere gives the name as 'The Sylph (La Sylphide) - A Fictional Ballet restrict Two Acts'. As was customary whack the while, this two-act ballet was always offered as items of a mixed tally, with a short warn work performed before be an enthusiast of after it.
Production note:The saltation credit reads: 'Choreography Honourable Bournonville 1836, Reproduced wedge Elsa Marianne von Rosen with more original topic by Ellen Price label Plane'.
Music title:La Sylphide: Choreography romantique shocked deux actes (1836)
Music details:Live music: orchestra
Source:Programme and slant file upgrade the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue:WORK/0177
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La Sylphide by August Bournonville, music by Herman Løvenskiold
Lis Jeppesen (La Sylphide), Nikolaj Hübbe (James), Sorella Englund (Madge) – Royal Danish Ballet
Cast
Henning Kronstam — Co-stage director
Arlette Weinreich — Co-stage director
Søren Frandsen — Stage design
Roy Emerson — Audio Director
Chris Bartlett-Judd — Lighting
Lis Jeppesen — La Sylphide
Nikolaj Hübbe — James
Program notes
The preeminent 19th-century Danish choreographer August Bournonville's La Sylphide remains one of his most celebrated works. In the 1988 performance now available in archival film footage, the Royal Danish Ballet and Orchestra (under the baton of Poul Jorgensen) bring Bournonville's 1836 version to life, with Lis Jeppesen in the title role and Nikolaj Hübbe as her lover James.
When Sylphide meets the Scottish farmer James and entrances him with her warmth and beauty, a love for the ages begins. Unfortunately for them, the witch and fortune-teller Madge has become set on revenge against James after he rejected her, a dreadful malice that leads to tragic consequences for the young lovers...