Classic Ballet La Sylphide & Napoli by China National Ballet

Time: 2008/8/9-2008/8/10
Venue: NCPA-Opera House
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Performed by National Ballet of China
Ballet La Sylphide

Music by Herman Severin Lovenskiold.
Choreographed by August Bournonville (Danish balletmaster)
The ballet La Sylphide, first performed in Parisin 1832, introduced the period of the romantic ballet. Marie Taglionidanced the part of the Sylphide, a supernatural creature who is lovedand inadvertently destroyed by a mortal man. The choreography, createdby her father, Filippo Taglioni, exploited the use of toe dancing toemphasize his daughter's otherworldly lightness and insubstantiality. La Sylphideinspired many changes in the ballets of the time-in theme, style,technique, and costume. Its successor, Giselle (1841), also contrastedthe human and supernatural worlds, and in its second act the ghostlyspirits called wilis wear the white tutu popularized in La Sylphide.

Ballet Napoli

Music by Tchaikovsky
Choreographed by August Bournonville (Danish balletmaster)
Napoli, or The Fisherman and His Bride is a ballet created in 1842 for Denmark's Royal Ballet by Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville. The ballet tells the story of Teresina, a young Italian girl who falls in love with Gennaro, a fisherman. The tale culminates in the marriage of the lovers.