Coppelia Ballet - Moscow Festival Ballet
Tuesday and Wednesday, February 16-17, 2010 @ 7:30 PM
Sponsored By: The Spectrum
Coppelia is a full-length ballet in three acts and is an adaptation of "The Sandman," a story written by the German Romanticist, E.T.A. Hoffman, almost 200 years ago. The ballet, with music by Leo Delibes, first performed over 100 years ago in Paris, was choreographed by Arthur Saint-Leon, ballet master of the Paris Opera at the time. Over the years there have been many different productions of Coppelia all over the world.
To quote from one description, this humorous story takes place in the storybook village of Olympia in Southern Poland. It's about a clever young girl named Swanilda, her silly boyfriend (Franz), a beautiful mechanical doll (Coppelia), and a funny old toymaker (Dr. Coppelius), who dreams of making a doll who would come to life.
The Moscow Festival Ballet features leading dancers from across Russia and brings together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies within the framework of Russian classical ballet. The presentation at the Cox Auditorium will feature beautiful scenery, gorgeous period costumes and some of the best dancers in the world.
