Ballet

Sylvia by Manuel Legris after Louis Mérante, music by Delibes

Wiener Staatsoper

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Cast

Manuel Legris — Choreographer

Nikisha Fogo — Sylvia

Denys Cherevychko — Aminta

Davide Dato — Orión

Mihail Sosnovschi — Eros

Ketevan Papava — Diana

James Stephens — Endymion

Dumitru Taran — Faun

Natascha Mair — Naiad

Ioanna Avraam — Huntress

Alice Firenze — Huntress

Sveva Gargiulo — Peasant

Géraud Wielick — Peasant

Scott McKenzie — Shepherd

Anita Manolova — Nubian slave

Fiona McGee — Nubian slave

Program notes

The names of Louis Mérante, Léo Staats, Serge Lifar, Albert Aveline, and Lycette Darsonval place Sylvia in a classically French ballet tradition—a tradition to which choreographer extraordinaire Manuel Legris, himself a former étoile dancer for the Paris Opera Ballet, feels a deep attachment. Legris’s new version of Sylvia follows in the lively footsteps of his widely lauded 2016 production of Le Corsaire, astutely highlighting all the subtleties and contrasts of the choreography, beautifully complemented by the magnificent and colorful design that features sumptuous costumes and immersive backdrops by Luisa Spinatelli. 

The very first ballet ever performed at Paris’s Palais Garnier in the choreography by Mérante, Sylvia, ou la Nymphe de Diane is based on a play by 16th-century lyric poet Torquato Tasso and set to a lavish and evocative score by Léo Delibes. Since that first performance in 1876, it has gained renown as one of the most important choreographed works of the nineteenth century.

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