La Sylphide
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Key facts
- Choreographer
- Filippo Taglioni
- Music
- Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer
- Libretto
- Adolphe Nourrit
- Based on
- Charles Nodier 's Trilby, ou Le Lutin d'Argail
- Premiere
- 12 March 1832, Salle Le Peletier , Paris Opera , Paris , France
- Original ballet company
- Paris Opera Ballet
- Characters
- James Ruben, The Sylph, Gurn, Effie, Old Madge, Effie's mother
- Setting
- Scotland
- Created for
- Marie Taglioni and Joseph Mazilier
- Genre
- Romantic ballet
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Composer
- Jean Schneitzhoeffer
- Narrative location
- Scottish Highlands
- Librettist
- Adolphe Nourrit
- Image
- Sylphide -Marie Taglioni -1832 -2.jpg
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- Commons category
- La Sylphide
- choreographer
- Filippo Taglioni
- date of first performance
- 1832-03-12
- native label
- La Sylphide
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Encyclopedic overview
La Sylphide (English: The Sylph; Danish: Sylfiden) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836. Bournonville's is the only version known to have survived and is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets.
Taglioni version
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Sylphide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.