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Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes) [1]) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter.
The plot is inspired by a 2008 version of the ballet Coppelia, which in turn was loosely based on The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The music is by Maurizio Malagnini [ 2 ] with choreography by Ted Brandsen, director of the Dutch National Ballet .
Coppelia may refer to: Coppélia, an 1870 comic ballet; Coppelia, a 2021 ballet film combining live dance with animation; Coppelia (ice cream parlor), in Havana, Cuba; 815 Coppelia, a minor planet (asteroid) Coppelia, the Animated Doll, a 1900 French short silent film
The 29-year-old, who starred in the 2021 ballet movie “Coppelia,” recently died from undisclosed causes, according to an announcement from her social media account Friday.
After composing light comic opérettes in the 1850s and 1860s, while also serving as a church organist, Delibes achieved public recognition for his music for the ballet La Source in 1866. His later ballets Coppélia and Sylvia were key works in the development of modern ballet, giving the music much greater importance than previously.
CNB was the first ballet company in Portugal to produce full-length classical ballets such as La fille mal gardée, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, La Sylphide, La Bayadère, Paquita, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliet, The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. In addition, the company reviews and re-deciphers works from the ballet canon, commissioning new pieces ...
Giuseppina Bozzacchi (23 November 1853 – 23 November 1870) was an Italian ballerina, noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia at the age of 16 while dancing for the Paris Opera Ballet. Bozzacchi, who was born in Milan, [1] had come to Paris to study with Mme Dominique.
With the help of novelist Laura Esquivel, Tony Award–winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon cooks up a cinematic ballet for American Ballet Theatre’s summer season at the Met.