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French Romantic Ballets
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Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-15
French Romantic Ballets written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Music categories.
This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 1830–1870. The Romantic ballet had been inaugurated by Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Diable (21 November 1831) with its ghostly Ballet of the Nuns, risen from their graves and dancing in the moonlight, led by their spectral Abbess; a role created by Marie Taglioni (1804–1884) to her father’s choreography. La Sylphide (1832), inspired by this situation, was the first fully fledged Romantic ballet. Its graceful and atmospheric score was written by the first violinist at the Opéra, Jean Schneitzhoeffer. The story, devised by the great tenor Adolphe Nourrit, similarly introduces spirits and elemental beings, which dominated ballet scenarios for the following decades. Filippo Taglioni’s creation provided the fullest realization of the Romantic ideal, especially in the leading character of the story, and its perfect incarnation in the original interpreter, Marie Taglioni, whose stage personality seemed to be made for the part of the Sylphide. The ballet became the source of theatrically romantic fantasies centred around the hopeless and fatal love between a human being and a supernatural creature. It was performed in Paris until 1860, when the work was abandoned. Only in the late 20th century was Taglioni’s original version revived in a literal reconstruction by Pierre Lacotte at the Paris Opéra on 7 June 1972. Giselle is a central work in the ballet repertory all over the world. It is regarded as the absolute masterpiece of Romantic dance theatre; a wonderful synthesis of style, technique, and dramatic feeling, with an exceptional score. The ballet was devised in 1841 as a result of the collaboration of some of the major talents in literature, choreography and music in the Paris of the time. The author, critic and poet Théophile Gautier, overwhelmed by the art of the ballerina Carlotta Grisi (1819–1899), discovered what he felt would be the perfect theme for her while reading a translation of Heinrich Heine’s book on German legend and folklore, D’Allemagne. Here he found the legend of the wilis—maidens who die before their wedding day and who come out of their graves at night in bridal dress to dance until dawn. Should any man be caught in the wood while the wilis are about their rituals, he is doomed to dance on and on until he drops dead from exhaustion. The choreography was created by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The first act is on a realistic level, with an evocation of a medieval rusticity and emotional-sentimental intrigue, while the second act conjures up the supernatural, an ethereal world of magic symbolism. Both public and the critics greeted the work as a triumph. The score was praised for its “elegance, the freshness and clarity of the melodies, the vigour and novelty of the harmonic combinations, and the vivacity that pervades the musical texture from start to finish”. The ballet has come down the years in a more-or-less unbroken tradition. Perrot emphasized his own special creative imprint in the productions he supervised in London (1842) and St Petersburg (1856). In Russia he collaborated with Marius Petipa who made his own reconstruction of the ballet in 1884. This version became the model for all later revivals in Russia, as well as for Mikhail Fokine’s production for the Ballet Russes in Paris (1910). Byron’s famous narrative poem The Corsair inspired several ballets, with Joseph Mazilier’s proving the most important (1856). Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges’s scenario was of a superior quality. Mazilier was maître de ballet at the Paris Opéra between 1853 and 1859, the years of his fullest creativity. The solo parts were infused with an intense dramatic expressiveness, and there was a splendid mise-en-scène. But the great success of the work was due primarily to the quality of the chief performers: the ballerina Carolina Rosati (1826–1905) and the mime Domenico Segarelli (1820–1860). The spectacular shipwreck finale was a sensational feat engineered by the chief mechanist of the Opéra, Victor Sacré, and his crowning glory. Adam’s score—consistently rich in melodic inspiration, engaging in the set dances, imaginative in the many extended mime sequences, and more richly symphonic than ever before in his work—reached a height of inspiration in this last music he ever wrote for the stage. Mazilier’s ballet gained a world-wide popularity, and became a favourite of the leading ballerinas for decades. Marius Petipa produced his own version in St Petersburg in 1868, with additional music by Cesare Pugni and Léo Delibes. In 1899 Petipa revived the ballet again, for the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, this time completely re-choreographing it for Pierina Legnani, with additional music by Riccardo Drigo. Performances in the USSR and contemporary Russia derive from this version. Drigo’s music for the spectacular pas de deux in act 2 is still performed all over the world as an independent piece.
The Romantic Ballet In Paris
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Author : Ivor Guest
language : en
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
Release Date : 2008
The Romantic Ballet In Paris written by Ivor Guest and has been published by Dance Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Ballet categories.
Stars of the romantic ballet, as well as the choreographers, composers, designers, and balletomanes of the time are brought to life in a colorful panorama of this great age of French ballet. The age of romanticism in the first half of the nineteenth century was one of the greatest periods in the history of ballet. In a span of three decades (1820 to 1847) ballet became what it had never been before a major theater art, gaining new vitality and meaning from the ideas of the romantic movement which rapidly infiltrated each one of its component parts: scenarios, music, decor, choreography and dance style.
The Romantic Ballet As Seen By Th Ophile Gautier Being His Notices Of All The Principal Performances Of Ballet Given At Paris During The Years 1837 1848
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Author : Théophile Gautier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
The Romantic Ballet As Seen By Th Ophile Gautier Being His Notices Of All The Principal Performances Of Ballet Given At Paris During The Years 1837 1848 written by Théophile Gautier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Ballet categories.
The Pre Romantic Ballet
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Author : Marian Hannah Winter
language : en
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Dance Horizons
Release Date : 1975
The Pre Romantic Ballet written by Marian Hannah Winter and has been published by Brooklyn, N.Y. : Dance Horizons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Performing Arts categories.
The Choreography Of Modernism In France
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Author : Julie Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
The Choreography Of Modernism In France written by Julie Townsend and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, in the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess. They represented her alternately as an elusive ideal, a saucy prostitute, or a dangerous seductress. Dancers, in turn, produced their own images, novels and autobiographies, thereby contributing to an ongoing cultural debate around performance, spectatorship, desire, and art. In this interdisciplinary study of la danseuse, Julie Townsend examines the rise and fall of classical ballet, the phenomenon of the music hall, and the birth of modern dance. She highlights moments of representational crisis and emergent aesthetics in her consideration of poetry, novels, painting, early film, and women's autobiography."
The Paris Op Ra Ballet
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Author : Ivor Guest
language : en
Publisher: Dance Books Limited
Release Date : 2006
The Paris Op Ra Ballet written by Ivor Guest and has been published by Dance Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Ballet categories.
The cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its foundation by Louis XIV in 1669
The Ballet Of The Enlightenment
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Author : Ivor Guest
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
Release Date : 1996
The Ballet Of The Enlightenment written by Ivor Guest and has been published by Princeton Book Company Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Performing Arts categories.
Adolphe Adam Master Of The Romantic Ballet 1830 1856
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Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-26
Adolphe Adam Master Of The Romantic Ballet 1830 1856 written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-26 with Music categories.
The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is particularly famous for the Christmas anthem ‘Minuit chrétiens’ (‘O Holy Night’). He was renowned as a composer for the lyric stage. With Boïeldieu, Hérold and Auber, Adam forms one of the quartet of masters that represent the second school of that profoundly French genre of opéra-comique, producing the charming Le Chalet (1834) and the adorable and enduringly popular Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (1836). However, Adam’s greatest originality and most substantial achievement lay in the field of ballet. Giselle (1841) is the quintessence of mystical Romanticism and one of the most enduring works of the dance repertoire. His series of ballets, principally for the Paris Opéra, but also for London, St Petersburg and Berlin, helped to establish this genre as a serious and integral musical form. His last work Le Corsaire (1856) attains sublime heights. This book concentrates on the dance aspect of Adam’s art, examining his 14 works in this genre in the context of the emergence and efflorescence of the Romantic ballet within the vibrant musical scene in Paris from 1830-1860.
Gautier On Dance
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Author : Théophile Gautier
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1986
Gautier On Dance written by Théophile Gautier and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Ballet categories.
Jules Perrot
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Author : Ivor Guest
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
Release Date : 1984
Jules Perrot written by Ivor Guest and has been published by Princeton Book Company Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.