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  • Performers and collaborators of the ballet La Sylphide
  • Persons are sorted by roles and birth years

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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 the world's oldest surviving ballet.

This project is about the Taglioni and Bournonville ballets, and not about Mikhail Fokine's 1909 non-narrative ballet Les Sylphides using Chopin's orchestrated piano music.

La Sylphide (1832 & 1836 ballet)

Taglioni version (1832, lost)

Bournonville version (1836, current)

  • Choreography by August Bournonville. The Bournonville version has been danced in its original form by the Royal Danish Ballet ever since its creation, for almost 200 years.
  • Music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold, was composed because the Paris Opera demanded from Bournonville too high a price for Schneitzhoeffer's score
  • Original ballet company: Royal Danish Ballet
  • Created for Lucile Young and August Bournonville
  • Choreographic versions
    • 1836, 28 November, Premiere of the Bournonville version at Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark.
    • 1965 Rudolf Nureyev made his debut as James on January 5, in Toronto with Lynn Seymour. He replaces Erik Bruhn who was injured. Rudolf knew of this role only the variation with the veil, danced with Margot Fonteyn for a gala the previous spring. James will become one of his favorite roles, notably with Carla Fracci as a partner. He danced with the same happiness the version of Taglioni re-edited by Pierre Lacotte with Ghislaine Thesmar in the title role.
    • 1994 Matthew Bourne created an updated version of The Sylph in his production 'Highland Fling', set in contemporary Scotland (1990s) and uses the original score by Herman Severin Løvenskiold.
    • 2005: Johan Kobborg faithfully recreates Auguste Bournonville 's version for the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, London, embodying the two main characters with Alina Cojocaru
    • 2008; Johan Kobborg and Alina Cojocaru performed at the Bolshoi, in some performances with Natalia Osipova in the role of the Sylphide.
  • Characters and dancers
    • The Sylphide, a forest spirit
    • James Reuben, a Scottish farmer
    • Gurn, James' friend and rival
      • Frank Andersen
      • Morten Munksdorf
    • Anna Reuben, James' mother, widow
      • Kirstin Simone
    • Effie, James' fiancée, Anne's nièce
    • Nancy, Effie’s friend
      • Anne Marie Vessel
      • Ann-Kristin Hauge
    • Madge, an old village witch
      • Kirstin Simone
      • Sorella Englund
    • Effie's mother, an elderly woman
    • Soloist in Act I, a Scott
      • Lloid Riggins
    • Soloist in Act II, a Sylph
      • Silja Wendrup-Schandorff
    • 3 sylphs
      • 1st Sylph
      • 2nd Sylph
      • 3rd Sylph
    • A witch
    • Scottish bridesmaids, wedding guests, witches, and sylphs, alltogether 70 male and female dancers
  • Scenographers
    • Wallich (Premiere 1836)
    • C.F. Christensen (Premiere 1836)
    • Søren Frandsen
  • Costume designors
    • dr. Ryge (Premiere 1836)
    • Henrik Bloch
  • Conductors
    • Poul Jørgensen
  • Choreographers
    • August Bournonville (Premiere 1836)
    • Matthew Bourne
    • Hans Brenaa
    • Henning Kronstam
    • Arlette Weinreich
    • Johan Kobborg

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