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La sylphide : ballet in two acts / by August Bournonville ; choreography by August Bournonville ; Royal Theatre production after Hans Brenaa by Henning Kronstam, Arlette Weinreich ; the National Video Corp. Ltd.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Standardized Title:
- Sylphide (Choreographic work : Brenaa after Bournonville)
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets.
- Genre:
- Ballets (Dance)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (63 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : C Major Entertainment, 1988.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- When Lis Jeppesen - the Sylphide of our time - in diaphanous white costume and with shining wings, dances for the Scottish farmer James, whom she has entranced with her love and beauty, we are witnessing the first scene of the most famous and enduring ballet by August Bournonville. Of all his surviving ballets it is the oldest and most widely performed. The Royal Danish Ballet rightly regards its interpretations of the Bournonville classics as being in the purest and most faithfully maintained tradition. Lis Jeppesen dances the lead role of La Sylphide, a role which demands lyrical interpretation as well as superb technique. Equal expressiveness and faultless dancing are required of James, here performed by Nikolaj Hübbe. Sorella Englund is the brilliant interpreter of the role of Madge, the witch and fortune-teller, whose rejection by James leads her to seek dreadful revenge on him, with tragic consequences.
- Participant:
- Royal Danish Ballet
- Credits:
- Choreography, August Bournonville ; costume designer, Henrik Bloch ; Royal Danish Orchestra, conducted by Paul Jorgensen
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed February 23, 2022).
- Videotaped in performance at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
- Contains:
- Music: Løvenskiold, Herman Severin, 1815-1870. Sylphiden.
- OCLC:
- 1309920076
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