Aram Khachaturyan
to music by Frederic Chopin
to music by Sergei Prokofiev
Cesare Pugni
Ludvig Minkus, Edouard Deldevez
to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Alfred Shnitke, Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam
Herman Severin Levenskiold
Ilya Demutsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
to music by Valery Gavrilin
to music by Alfred Schnitke and Milko Lazar
Ludwig Minkus
Adolphe Adam
Leo Delibes
Yuri Krasavin
Yuri Krasavin
Alexander Glazunov
Sergei Prokofiev
Arif Melikov
Ludwig Minkus
Georges Bizet–Rodion Shchedrin
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Yuri Krasavin
Alexander Glazunov
to music by Anatoly Korolyov
Joby Talbot
La Sylphide is a ballet of a splendid but complicated fate. Its premiere was held on the 12th of March 1832 in Paris at the Academie royale de musique et danse. The performance, which told the story of an immortal daughter of air who was destroyed by her love for a peasant, became a reaction by dance people towards romanticism. It involved precise stylisation of symbols and was vivid as never before, even though it emerged quite late. The main part was created by choreographer Philippo Taglioni for his daughter Maria. She was unattractive and had an awkward round-shoulder figure. Her appearance was totally unsuitable for the images of female characters for the then prevailing “anacreontic” ballets, which demanded the forms and grace of antique statues from ballerinas.
Premiered on February 20, 2008.
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
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Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
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Friday, 19:00
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Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Friday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Act I
A Scottish manor house.
It is the morning of James’s marriage to Effie and he is asleep in his armchair. A winged figure, a Sylphide, is kneeling by his side. She kisses him on his forehead and he wakes up confused. Entranced by the vision of the Sylph, he attempts to capture her, but she escapes him; as she reaches the fireplace, she vanishes up the chimney. Troubled, he wakes his companions but none of them have seen her. Gurn, James’s rival, arrives and learns that James is infatuated with someone other than Effie.