October.27.2011
Helena recently announced this year’s Spring Performance! SDA has performed Coppélia in the past, with wonderful costumes, choreography and beautiful set design.
Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon. The ballet premiered on 25 May 1870 at the Théâtre Impérial de l´Opéra, with the 16-year-old Giuseppina Bozzacchi as the principal role of Swanhilde.
The story of Coppélia concerns a mysterious and faintly diabolical inventor, Doctor Coppélius[1] who has made a life-size dancing doll. It is so lifelike that Frantz, a village swain, is infatuated with it, and sets aside his true heart’s desire, Swanhilde, who in Act II shows him his folly by dressing as the doll and pretending to come to life. The festive wedding-day divertissements in the village square that occupy Act III are often deleted in modern danced versions, though one of the entrées was the first czardas presented on a ballet stage.
We are very excited to produce our own version of Coppélia here at SDA. Please look for cast lists closer to Christmas time! For any questions, please leave a comment below!
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