Coppélia [Close shot] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova after Marius Petipa ; music, Léo Delibes.
3 streaming video files (NTSC) (112 min.) : sd., col.
Uniform title
Coppélia (Choreographic work : Balanchine and Danilova, A after Petipa, M)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Contents
Reel 1. Act I (ca. 38 min.), a village square in Galicia / performed by Hlinka, La Fosse, and Kozlov, with Margo Krody (Coppélia, a doll) ; Jade Adams, Aura Dixon, Michele Gifford, Dana Hanson, Dena Kinstlinger, Janey McGeary, Santhe Tsetsilas, Melissa Walter, Charles Anderson, James Fayette, Arch Higgins, Robert Lyon, Sean Savoye, Gordon Stevens, Jian Wang, and Runsheng Ying (villagers) ; William Otto (the mayor) ; and Jennifer Fuchs, Tatiana Garcia-Stefanovich, Lydia Harmsen, Isabel Kimmel, Andrea Long, Rebecca Metzger, Jenifer Ringer, and Jennifer Tinsley (Swanilda's friends).
Reel 2. Act II (ca. 31 min.), Dr. Coppélius' secret workshop / performed by Hlinka, Kozlov, and La Fosse, with Fuchs, Garcia-Stefanovich, Harmsen, Kimmel, Long, Metzger, Ringer, and Tinsley (Swanilda's friends) ; automatons, Alexander Ritter (astrologer), Andrew Robertson (juggler), Robert Wersinger (acrobat), and Sant'gria Bello (Chinaman).
Reel 3. Act III (ca. 43 min.), a village wedding and festival of bells / performed by Hlinka, La Fosse, and Kozlov, with Otto (burgomaster) ; Fuchs, Garcia-Stefanovich, Harmsen, Kimmel, Long, Metzger, Ringer, Tinsley, Bello, Christopher Boehmer, Ritter, Robertson, Wersinger, and Todd Williams (villagers, brides, grooms, and friends) ; Dedication of the bells, Yvonne Borree and children's ensemble (Waltz of the golden hours) ; Katrina Killian (Dawn) ; Zippora Karz (Prayer) ; Stacey Calvert (Spinner) ; Amanda Edge, Pascale van Kipnis, Inmaculada Velez, and Elizabeth Walker (four jesterettes) ; Teresa Reyes and Michael Byars, with Adams, Dixon, Gifford, Hanson, Kinstlinger, McGeary, Tsetsilas, Walter, Anderson, Fayette, Higgins, Lyon, Stevens, Wang, Williams, and Ying (Discord and war) ; Hlinka and La Fosse (Peace: pas de deux) ; ensemble (finale).
Call number
*MGZIC 9-4350B
Note
Recording made possible by the cooperation of New York City Ballet, The George Balanchine Trust, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
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Credits (note)
Book, Charles Nuitter, after E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann ; scenery and costumes, Rouben Ter-Arutunian ; Dawn, Prayer, Spinner, and children's costumes, Karinska ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.
Performer (note)
Performed by New York City Ballet: Nichol Hlinka (Swanilda/Coppélia), Robert La Fosse (Frantz), Leonid Kozlov (Dr. Coppélius), and others.
Conductor: Gordon Boelzner.
Event (note)
Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on June 13, 1993 (matinee), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4350A.
Funding (note)
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.
Terms of use (note)
Copyright: Coppélia choreography by George Balanchine (c) The George Balanchine Trust.
Title
Coppélia [Close shot] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova after Marius Petipa ; music, Léo Delibes.
Imprint
c1993.
Performer
Performed by New York City Ballet: Nichol Hlinka (Swanilda/Coppélia), Robert La Fosse (Frantz), Leonid Kozlov (Dr. Coppélius), and others.
Conductor: Gordon Boelzner.
Credits
Book, Charles Nuitter, after E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann ; scenery and costumes, Rouben Ter-Arutunian ; Dawn, Prayer, Spinner, and children's costumes, Karinska ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.
Event
Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on June 13, 1993 (matinee), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4350A.
Funding
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.
Terms of use
Copyright: Coppélia choreography by George Balanchine (c) The George Balanchine Trust.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.