Coppélia
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Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: '''''La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail''''' (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scène was based upon E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story Der Sandmann (The Sandman). In Greek, κοπέλα (or κοπελιά in some dialects) means young woman. Coppélia premiered on 25 May 1870 at the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra, with the 16-year-old Giuseppina Bozzacchi in the principal role of Swanhilda and ballerina Eugénie Fi
Key facts
- Ballet.name
- Coppélia
- Ballet.image
- Coppelia -Swanilda -Giuseppina Bozzachi -Act I-Scene 2 -Paris -1870 -2.JPG
- Ballet.caption
- Giuseppina Bozzacchi as Swanhilda in the Saint-Léon/Delibes Coppélia. Paris, 1870
- Ballet.choreographer
- Arthur Saint-Léon
- Ballet.composer
- Léo Delibes
- Ballet.based_on
- Der Sandmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Ballet.premiere
- 25 May 1870
- Ballet.place
- Théâtre Impérial l'Opéra, Paris
- Ballet.characters
- Doctor CoppéliusSwanhildaFranz
- Ballet.genre
- Romantic
- Ballet.type
- Comic ballet
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- Coppelia -Swanilda -Giuseppina Bozzachi -Act I-Scene 2 -Paris -1870 -2.JPG
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- Coppélia
- date of first performance
- 1870-05-25
- title
- Coppélia
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Coppélia (sometimes subtitled: '''''La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail''''' (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to the music of Léo Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scène was based upon E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story Der Sandmann (The Sandman). In Greek, κοπέλα (or κοπελιά in some dialects) means young woman. Coppélia premiered on 25 May 1870 at the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra, with the 16-year-old Giuseppina Bozzacchi in the principal role of Swanhilda and ballerina Eugénie Fiocre playing the part of Franz en travesti. The costumes were designed by Paul Lormier and Alfred Albert, the scenery by Charles-Antoine Cambon (Act I, scene 1; Act II, scene 1), and Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Act I, scene 2).
The ballet's first flush of success was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War and the siege of Paris (which also led to the early death of Giuseppina Bozzacchi, on her 17th birthday), but eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Opéra.