This article is about Fokine's 1909 ballet. For August Bournonville's 1836 ballet, see La Sylphide.
Les Sylphides
Anna Pavlova in Les Sylphides, 1909
Choreographer
Mikhail Fokine
Music
Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Glazunov
Based on
Chopiniana
Premiere
(as Chopiniana): 1907, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (as Les Sylphides): 2 June 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Original ballet company
Ballets Russes
Characters
the poet, sylphs
Design
Alexandre Benois (set) Léon Bakst (costumes)
Created for
Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, and Alexandra Baldina
Genre
Ballet blanc
Type
Romantic reverie
Les Sylphides (French:[lesilfid]) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.
The ballet, described as a "romantic reverie",[1][2] is frequently cited as the first ballet to be simply about mood and dance.[1]Les Sylphides has no plot but instead consists of several white-clad sylphs dancing in the moonlight with the "poet" or "young man" dressed in white tights and a black tunic.
Its original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with Chopin's music orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. Glazunov had already set some of the music in 1892 as a purely orchestral suite, under the title Chopiniana, Op. 46.[3] In that form, it was introduced to the public in December 1893, conducted by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
^ ab"Ballet Theater", until 1955. A compact disk of ABT's production, with Mikhail Baryshnikov as the dreamer, is available from Kultor, entitled "American Ballet Theatre at the Met – Mixed Bill (1985)". [relevant?]
^See Olga Maynard's definitive account, based on information from Fokine's son Vitale Fokine: "Les Sylphides", Dance Magazine Portfolio: December 1971, advertised separately by some online booksellers.
^For a list of other works in which a composer paid tribute to another composer by using their name in conjunction with the suffix -ana, see -ana.
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