Fairy Tales in Music (26)

Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Rusalka, Nutcracker, Scheherazade, The Magic Flute...

The fairy tales of your childhood like you've never seen before: plunge into a magic world where animals speak and where fairies exist...

Music is magic. That's what the very first opera in history says: in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the lyre appears like the only way to charm the most unyielding of all, the prince of the underworld. Music expresses the inexpressible, depicts imaginary worlds. Thus, no wonder that the opera dives into the fantastic universe. But moving away from the mythological figures bequeathed from the antic theatre, 19th century composers explored the fairy-tale world...

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Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Cinderella by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Prokofiev

With Aurélia Schaefer (Cinderella), Francesco Nappa (Prince), Bernice Coppieters (Fairy/Mother) – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

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Exhibition by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Ma mère l'Oye by Jeroen Verbruggen, music by Ravel

Royal Ballet of Flanders

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The Nutcracker by Vainonen after Petipa and Ivanov, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Somova (Masha the Princess), Vladimir Shklyarov (The Nutcracker Prince), Alexandra Korshunova (Masha)... – Mariinsky Theater Ballet Company

Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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Opéra national de Paris

Swan Lake by Nureyev after Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

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La Sylphide by August Bournonville, music by Herman Løvenskiold

Lis Jeppesen (La Sylphide), Nikolaj Hübbe (James), Sorella Englund (Madge) – Royal Danish Ballet

Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen, Denmark)

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Opéra national de Paris

Coppélia by Patrice Bart, music by Léo Delibes

Dorothée Gilbert (Swanilda), José Martinez (Coppélius), and Mathias Heymann (Frantz)

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Dvořák's Rusalka

Stefan Herheim (stage director), Ádám Fischer (conductor) – With Myrtò Papatanasiu (Rusalka) and Pavel Černoch (Prince)...

Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels, Belgium)

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Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Cojocaru (Princess Aurora), Federico Bonelli (Prince Florimund), Christopher Saunders (King Florestan XXIV) – The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

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Glyndebourne

Rossini's La Cenerentola

Peter Hall (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Ruxandra Donose (Cenerentola)...

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Opéra national de Paris

Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen

André Engel (stage director), Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) – With Elena Tsallagova (The Vixen), Paul Gay (Harašta)

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Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland (world premiere)

Achim Freyer (stage director), Kent Nagano (conductor) – With Sally Matthews, Dietrich Henschel...

Nationaltheater München (Munich, Germany)

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Opéra national de Paris

Cinderella by Rudolf Nureyev, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Agnès Letestu (Cinderella), José Martinez (The movie star) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

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Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

Giancarlo del Monaco (stage director), Alain Guingal (conductor) – With Aquiles Machado (Hoffman), Milagros Poblador (Olympia) – Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao