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| Pierre Lacotte, Dupont, Ganio, Hurel, Didiere | | Format:
| Classical, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC | | Subtitle:
| English, French, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Tdk DVD Video | | Run Time:
| 127 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| June 21, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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BeautifulJan 07, 2010
I had ordered this blind as I had not seen any. I am very pleased with this performance. I had seen Aurelie Dupont in Sleeping Beauty and was not surprised by her excellent performance. An excellent ballet choice for those who love ballet as colorfully performed.
beautiful and classicOct 23, 2009
A beautiful rendition of La Sylphide by the Paris Opera Ballet. Aurelie Dupont is a very amazing "classical" ballerina, and plays the role perfectly. She has amazing technical presicion and it works wonders for this ballet. Mathieu Ganio is probably one of my favorite male leads, and i think this might have been one of his first performances as an "etoile." Great athleticism and a youthful charm fit nicely with the production. The corps de ballet proves to be yet again one of the best in the world. As a whole they are very precise with their movements.
Paris ballet seems to use their own unique version of the music for the ballet as well, of which there is no actual recording, unfortunately. So for music lovers, this dvd is quite a treat. During the last act their is a beautiful piece written for french horn....and the dancing during this is very emotional. All in all, this is one of my favorite ballets. Great emotion and precision from Aurelie, Amazing athleticism from Ganio, and the corps has amazing unity. very precise.
Petite Allegro!Sep 27, 2009
The choreography in Le Sylphide is quite different from the choreography in Petipa ballets. While Swan Like, Sleeping Beauty, Pequita, etc. contain lots of pirouettes and grand allegro, La Sylphide contains primarily petite allegro. Although the petite allegro is perfectly executed by Aurelie Dupont and her castmates, after awhile I just wanted to see a pirouette. Nothing wrong with the ballet at all, it's just a different stype of choreography.
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 Just to clarify a misconception...Jun 22, 2009
Balletomanes, boys, and girls: I don't want to disillusion you, but what you see in this DVD is NOT the original choreography by Filippo Taglioni of La Sylphide as performed in Paris in 1832. Taglioni's documentation of his work, for reasons unknown, has not survived. Contrary to what Pierre Lacotte (who is an otherwise delightful gentleman) would have you believe, the POB's "re-creation" is 95% Monsieur Lacotte's invention, and 5% based on documentation (critiques, engravings, etc.) from the period.
The style is far too sophisticated for the early 19th century (compare it with the more mime-intensive Danish version), and the technical demands of the choreography are too ambitious versus what even the best dancers would have been able to accomplish over a century and a half ago.
Nonetheless, Pierre Lacotte has given us a delightful piece of work, proving himself to be a far superior (albeit less prolific) choreographer to his contemporary and fellow POB "alumnus" Patrice Bart.
p.s. - hooray for Effie!
In summary, a five star piece of dance and drama, but I must knock one star off because of "truth in advertising" issues.
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A common man's point of view.Aug 02, 2008
This ballet definitely rates a five star review. It is the first ballet I have purchased staring Aurelie Dupont and I must say she is quite beautiful in this type of period ballet. I did not like her in the POB production of Sylvia. Delibes - Sylvia / Aurelie Dupont, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnes Gillot, Jose Martinez, Paris Opera Ballet I should say I didn't like that production (not her).
We seem to be drawn to the macabre in our story telling of old. I wouldn't want my child to have ever been told the early versions of The Sleeping Beauty for instance, where she is ravaged by the one waking her instead of being roused from her deep sleep. And of course there is Snow White who must have her heart cut out of her chest and given to her step mother in a box. And by the way, why are step mothers so often depicted as villains? Again in La Sylphide our delicate little fairy is going to have to die. Not for a very good reason, I might add. An old Crone has her feelings hurt because someone wouldn't let her tell his fortune. So, the innocent little fairy has to die. It's as bad as killing off Hilarion when it was Albrect who deceived Giselle. It wasn't the Sylph who refused to have her fortune told, but James. The danseure, Mathieu Ganio playing James, is only twenty years old but is a very capable dancer and partner for Aurelie Dupont. He is as handsome as she is beautiful and they are a very nice couple together.
More to the point of this review, however. The story is well told in dance as well as setting. There is good lighting and fabulous color in the sets and especially in the costuming. The time period lent itself well to the flow of skirts on both men and women. I hope the men don't mind my calling the kilts skirts, but as I said, very beautiful and colourful (we'll use their spelling). The stage was absolutely filled with all that colour. The outdoor scenes in the forest were also well done with human sized fairies flying about and seeming to hover in the trees. Even there in the night scenes the lighting was good, and the fairies were easily seen as they moved about. In the final scene when the other fairies lifted the Sylph to fly her off to her heaven or wherever Sylphs go, I never did see the wires used to lift them. That was very well done. The most touching moment in the ballet for me is when the Sylph bends over to pick up her little wings after they had fallen off by the magic of the deadly scarf that James wrapped around her. You might just shed a tear or two when she dies, as I usually do, but even though I know it's just a fairy tale, I get emotional. James is quite pathetic too, as he realises he has just caused the death of the one he loved the most, and the old crone gloats not only over James' loss of his beloved Sylphide but also Effie, his fiance, to Gurn.
I thought it was a very beautiful ballet and I'm glad I own it. Another thing you will like on this DVD is the bonus material which tells the history of this ballet and it's famous dancer-choreographer Marie Taglioni.
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