La Fille mal gardee
The beautiful love story, the Royal Ballet's most enduring gem, is playing on the big screen at Empire Theatres all across Canada on January 31st, 2009.
This charming ballet dances the story of a village love affair. The costumes and characters are very colorful, and John Lanchbery's musical adaptation is the perfect compliment. The blond virtuoso Marianela Nunez and superstar Carlos Acosta would be show-stoppers in almost any roles, but in this ballet, as Lise and Colas, they are superb. And William Tuckett and Jonathan Howells, in the comic roles of Simone and Alain, are every bit as entertaining.
La Fille mal gardee is a great 'introductory opera' that converts many spectators into passionate patrons of the performing arts!
This charming ballet dances the story of a village love affair. The costumes and characters are very colorful, and John Lanchbery's musical adaptation is the perfect compliment. The blond virtuoso Marianela Nunez and superstar Carlos Acosta would be show-stoppers in almost any roles, but in this ballet, as Lise and Colas, they are superb. And William Tuckett and Jonathan Howells, in the comic roles of Simone and Alain, are every bit as entertaining.
La Fille mal gardee is a great 'introductory opera' that converts many spectators into passionate patrons of the performing arts!
Empire Theatres - Opus Arte Ballets
Here's your chance to see Ballet on the Big Screen!
Empire Theatres is screening Opus Arte. Audiences can now watch the World's most culturally rich ballets with perfect sound and sight lines in the middle of the afternoon.
The Empire Theatres Opus Arte event schedule shows something special every two weeks!
Opus Arte: La Fille Mal Gardée (Ballet) Sir Frederick Ashton
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Playing Nationally: January 31 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 min (includes 20 min intermission)
Opus Arte: Manon (Ballet) Sir Kenneth Mac Millan
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Playing Nationally: February 28 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 min (includes 20 min intermission)
Opus Arte: La Dame Aux Camélias (Ballet) John Neumeier
Paris Opéra Ballet at the Palais Garnier
Playing Nationally: March 28 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 32 min (includes 20 min intermission)
Opus Arte: La Bayadère [The Temple Dancer] (Ballet) Natalia Makrova
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Playing Nationally: May 2 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 55 min (includes 20 min intermission)
The Empire Theatres Opus Arte event schedule shows something special every two weeks!
Opus Arte: La Fille Mal Gardée (Ballet) Sir Frederick Ashton
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Playing Nationally: January 31 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 min (includes 20 min intermission)
Opus Arte: Manon (Ballet) Sir Kenneth Mac Millan
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Playing Nationally: February 28 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 min (includes 20 min intermission)
Opus Arte: La Dame Aux Camélias (Ballet) John Neumeier
Paris Opéra Ballet at the Palais Garnier
Playing Nationally: March 28 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 32 min (includes 20 min intermission)
Opus Arte: La Bayadère [The Temple Dancer] (Ballet) Natalia Makrova
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Playing Nationally: May 2 at 1:00pm Local Time
Running Time: 2 hours, 55 min (includes 20 min intermission)
La Fille Mal Gardee
La Fille mal gardee evolved through a complex series of ballet stories from a dance move based on a French painting... its true!La Fille Mal Gardee was originally inspired by a Pierre Antoine Baudouin oil on canvas painting Le Reprimande/Une Jeune Fille Querellée par sa Mère. That famous picture shows an old woman scolding a young woman who is crying and standing in a pile of straw. A young man runs upstairs in the background. So its no wonder the ballet was first presented as The Ballet of Straw at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France on 1 July 1789.
The ballet's story became popular again after Sir Frederick Ashton's debuted his adaptation La Fille mal gardee in a triumphant premiere on January 1960 at
The Royal Ballet at Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
La Fille Mal Gardee is widely considered to be Sir Frederick's happiest creation.
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