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Performance

VenueRoyal Opera House
Also: Linbury Studio, Ballet Studio, Clore Studio,Floral Hall
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From28th October 2008
To10th November 2008
WhenOct 28, 29, Nov 5, 7, 10 at 19:30
Royal Opera House (V377)
Current/Future Listings
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The Royal Ballet - Les Sylphides/Sensorium/The Firebird

The Royal Ballet

Work:: The Royal Ballet (S909)


Production:: Les Sylphides/Sensorium/The Firebird (T1647100118)

Originally called Chopiniana, Les Sylphides, seen this Season in a new staging my Monica Mason, is set to a sequence of Frederic Chopin's polonaises, mazurkas and waltzes for piano. Mikhail Fokine's choreography recreates the soft lines and lilting ballon of the Romantic style as a poet dances with a group of winged forest sprites or "sylphides". British choreographer Alastair Marriott who has enjoyed critical and audience acclaim with new work Sensorium created for The Royal Ballet's First Drafts in the Clore and Being and Having Been as part of the Inspired by Diaghilev Programme in the Linbury 2004 makes his third main stage work for the Company. His two previous main stage ballets are Tanglewood (2005) and Children of Adam (2007). The Firebird was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for Ballet Russes in 1910 and has subsequently been reworked by many choreographers, including both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. In 1926 Diaghilev commissioned Natalia Gontcharova to redesign The Firebird after deterioration of the original Golovine designs. She produced a dazzling array of vibrant costumes and one of the most glorious and memorable backcloths used in ballet. The narrative, based on various Russian folk tales, follows Prince Ivan as he captures a magical firebird while out hunting and, in exchange for her freedom, he is given one of her feathers. Ivan then encounters a group of young women, led by the beautiful Tsarevna with whom he instantly falls in love only to be captured by the evil Kostchei's slaves and monsters. He summons the Firebird with her feather and she destroys Kostchei, freeing both Prince Ivan and the Tsarevna who marry in the ballet's magnificent final tableau.
Producer Royal Ballet
Conductor Barry Wordsworth
Music Frederic Chopin (Les Sylphides)
Choreographer Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides)
Design Alexandre Benois (Les Sylphides)
Other Monica Mason (Les Sylphides)
Choreographer Alastair Marriott (Sensorium)
Music Debussy (Sensorium)
Music Colin Matthews (Sensorium - orchestations)
Design Adam Wiltshire (Sensorium)
Lighting John B Read (Sensorium)
Music Igor Stravinsky (The Firebird)
Choreographer Mikhail Fokine (The Firebird)
Other Sergey Grigoriev (original staging - The Firebird)
Other Lubov Tchernicheva (original staging - The Firebird)
Design Natalia Gontcharova (The Firebird)
Other Christopher Carr (The staging - Firebird)
Performer Sarah Lamb
Performer Marianela Nunez
Performer Alexandra Ansanelli
Performer Lauren Cuthbertson
Performer Isabel McMeekan
Performer Mara Galeazzi
Performer Rupert Pennefather
Performer David Makhateli
Performer Yohei Sasaki
Performer Valeri Hristov
Performer Leanne Benjamin
Performer Alina Cojocaru
Performer Emma Maguire
Performer Mellissa Hamilton
Performer Federico Bonelli
Performer Steven McRea
Performer Ludovic Ondiviela
Performer Steven McRae
Performer Edward Watson
Performer Tamara Rojo
Performer Johan Kobborg

Listing:: L1201544084




Current production:Work

Les Sylphides/Sensorium/The Firebird

Originally called Chopiniana, Les Sylphides, seen this Season in a new staging my Monica Mason, is set to a sequence of Frederic Chopin's polonaises, mazurkas and waltzes for piano. Mikhail Fokine's choreography recreates the soft lines and lilting ballon of the Romantic style as a poet dances with a group of winged forest sprites or "sylphides". British choreographer Alastair Marriott who has enjoyed critical and audience acclaim with new work Sensorium created for The Royal Ballet's First Drafts in the Clore and Being and Having Been as part of the Inspired by Diaghilev Programme in the Linbury 2004 makes his third main stage work for the Company. His two previous main stage ballets are Tanglewood (2005) and Children of Adam (2007). The Firebird was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for Ballet Russes in 1910 and has subsequently been reworked by many choreographers, including both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. In 1926 Diaghilev commissioned Natalia Gontcharova to redesign The Firebird after deterioration of the original Golovine designs. She produced a dazzling array of vibrant costumes and one of the most glorious and memorable backcloths used in ballet. The narrative, based on various Russian folk tales, follows Prince Ivan as he captures a magical firebird while out hunting and, in exchange for her freedom, he is given one of her feathers. Ivan then encounters a group of young women, led by the beautiful Tsarevna with whom he instantly falls in love only to be captured by the evil Kostchei's slaves and monsters. He summons the Firebird with her feather and she destroys Kostchei, freeing both Prince Ivan and the Tsarevna who marry in the ballet's magnificent final tableau.

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