Coppelia - Paris Opera Ballet

Coppelia

Paris Opera Ballet, Composed by Leo Delibes

Thursday, April 21 @ 7:00 p.m.

Conducted by Koen Kessels, Choreographed by Patrice Bart (Opera national de Paris, 1996), After Arthur Saint-Leon. Starring Dorothee Gilbert, Mathias Heymann, Jose Martinez and Fabrice Bourgeois

1 hour and 55 minutes, including one intermission

Since its creation in 1870, Coppelia or The Girl with Enamel Eyes has been a huge success and has remained in the Opera repertoire ever since. For this adaption, Patrice Bart returned to the literary origins that inspired the ballet-Hoffmann's fantasy tale-and to the more bizarre elements which had been edited out by the original creators Arthur Saint-Leon, Charles Nuitter and Leo Delibes. With the complicity of designer Ezio Toffolutti, Patrice Bart creates a version which is much closer to the fantastic Hoffmann tale than to the smiling comedy we know. Playing with transparency, illusion and double, this version excludes a troubling and mysterious atmosphere.

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