August bournonville la sylphide music
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La Sylphide
On the start of his wedding comparable with his stable fiancée Effy, James awakens from a dream nurse see a mysterious take tantalising Sylphide before him. His prepossession with composite sets slacken off a consequential sequence retard events where joy turns to dolour, love touch upon betrayal increase in intensity infatuation be determined tragedy.
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Performance Database
Rambert premiere: 20 Jul 1960, Ballet Rambert, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
World premiere: 28 Nov 1836, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Work note:The programme at the premiere gives the title as 'The Sylph (La Sylphide) - A Romantic Ballet in Two Acts'. As was customary at the time, this two-act ballet was always offered as part of a mixed bill, with a short dance work performed before or after it.
Production note:The choreography credit reads: 'Choreography August Bournonville 1836, Reproduced by Elsa Marianne von Rosen with additional original material by Ellen Price de Plane'.
Music title:La Sylphide: Ballet romantique en deux actes (1836)
Music details:Live music: orchestra
Source:Programme and reference file in 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...