COPPELIA

Biography

Comic ballet in 2 acts.

The production is an exact recreation of Petit's ballet, not only in choreography, but also in scenography and costumes.

Libretto by Charles Louis Étienne Nuiter and Arthur Saint-Leon based on the short story by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann “The Sandman”. Choreography - Roland Petit. Production ballet master - Luigi Bonino. Conductor - Arman Urazgaliev. Set designer: Ezio Frigerio. Costume designer - Franca Squarciapino. The costume designer - Anna Verde. Lighting designer and technical coordinator - Jean-Michel Desire. Assistant production ballet master - Gillian Whittingham. Assistant stage designer - Riccardo Masironi.

The performance was staged by the Astana Opera Theatre together with the Roland Petit Ballets Foundation (France). The premiere took place at the Astana Opera Theatre on November 22, 23, 2019.

Characters and performers: Swanhilda - Aigerim Beketayeva, Shugyla Adepkhan; Franz - Bakhtiyar Adamzhan, Arman Urazov; Coppelius - Luigio Bonino, Rustem Seitbekov.

Based on the concept of Hoffmann's immortal work, the choreographer focused the entire plot of the ballet on a love triangle: the desperate and jealous girl Swanhilda, her fiancé Franz and the puppet master Coppelius, who fell in love with a doll, whose role the choreographer composed for himself from the very beginning and danced this part almost to the age of 70 years. The action has been moved to a small French town without a name, where a corps de ballet in stylish costumes is dancing chardash and mazurka in an unusual style.