12th annual Northside Arts Festival
The Toy Maker's Tale: Coppélia
Symphony Viva will perform music composed by Léo Delibes, for the romantic comedy ballet a Toy Maker's Tale: Coppélia another ballet based on a story by E. T. A. Hoffman, that your entire family will be enamored by the betrothed couple Frantz and Swanhilda, mysterious toy-maker named Dr. Coppélius, and life-size dancing dolls.
Dr. Coppélius makes life sized dolls, so life like that the village flirt Frantz falls for a porcelain book reading doll named Coppélia made by the mysterious and diabolical Dr. Coppélius. Hilarity is ensured when Swanhilda become jealous of Frantz when he diverts his attention to the doll he is infatuated with.
Along with Coppélia, we will be holding our North Side Arts Festival where we will have local artists showcasing their work with awards given to best in category. Select artists will be there to promote and sell their creations and a silent auction to help us fund our various arts programs.
E. T. A. Hoffmann before 1819
Several changes were made to Hoffmann's dark fairy tale when it was adapted to the bright and gay Coppélia. In Hoffmann's fairy tale, for example, the doll comes to life through the hero's life force. In the ballet though, the doll remains a doll. Coppélius's attempt to bring it to life is thwarted by Swanhilda. The designers of the ballet chose the main characters of
Swanilda, Dr. Coppélius, the life-sized doll, and the young man torn between his attraction to the doll and his love for a human sweetheart for their adaptation. They set the story in a simple country village. Saint-Léon was working between France and Russia at this time. He could not completely devote himself to Coppélia. Consequently, the ballet was rehearsed over a three-year period.
The spirit of Coppélia is lighthearted and gay. The story of the ballet is simple. Adèle Grantzow, a German ballerina dancing at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was hired to play Swanhilda. Coppélia lost its star when Grantzow was injured. She went back to Russia.
Giuseppina Bozzacchi played Swanhilda. Eugénie Fiocre played Frantz. Francois-Édouard Dauty portrayed Dr. Coppélius. A real mechanical doll was used as Coppélia. Because a woman played Frantz, there was no pas de deux for Swanhilda and Franz. Bozzacchi danced eighteen performances of the ballet before the theatre closed because of the Franco-Prussian War. She died of a fever during the Siege of Paris on her seventeenth birthday, 23 November 1870.
When the theatres reopened in 1871, Beaugrand played Swanhilda with great success. The part of Frantz was again played by a woman in men's clothing. Frantz would be a travesty role at the Paris Opéra until the 1950s when men came back from the war.
Dr. Coppélius makes life sized dolls, so life like that the village flirt Frantz falls for a porcelain book reading doll named Coppélia made by the mysterious and diabolical Dr. Coppélius. Hilarity is ensured when Swanhilda become jealous of Frantz when he diverts his attention to the doll he is infatuated with.
Along with Coppélia, we will be holding our North Side Arts Festival where we will have local artists showcasing their work with awards given to best in category. Select artists will be there to promote and sell their creations and a silent auction to help us fund our various arts programs.
E. T. A. Hoffmann before 1819
Several changes were made to Hoffmann's dark fairy tale when it was adapted to the bright and gay Coppélia. In Hoffmann's fairy tale, for example, the doll comes to life through the hero's life force. In the ballet though, the doll remains a doll. Coppélius's attempt to bring it to life is thwarted by Swanhilda. The designers of the ballet chose the main characters of
Swanilda, Dr. Coppélius, the life-sized doll, and the young man torn between his attraction to the doll and his love for a human sweetheart for their adaptation. They set the story in a simple country village. Saint-Léon was working between France and Russia at this time. He could not completely devote himself to Coppélia. Consequently, the ballet was rehearsed over a three-year period.
The spirit of Coppélia is lighthearted and gay. The story of the ballet is simple. Adèle Grantzow, a German ballerina dancing at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was hired to play Swanhilda. Coppélia lost its star when Grantzow was injured. She went back to Russia.
Giuseppina Bozzacchi played Swanhilda. Eugénie Fiocre played Frantz. Francois-Édouard Dauty portrayed Dr. Coppélius. A real mechanical doll was used as Coppélia. Because a woman played Frantz, there was no pas de deux for Swanhilda and Franz. Bozzacchi danced eighteen performances of the ballet before the theatre closed because of the Franco-Prussian War. She died of a fever during the Siege of Paris on her seventeenth birthday, 23 November 1870.
When the theatres reopened in 1871, Beaugrand played Swanhilda with great success. The part of Frantz was again played by a woman in men's clothing. Frantz would be a travesty role at the Paris Opéra until the 1950s when men came back from the war.
Live Music, Dance, Art, Craft, Food, and Silent Auction
Come by and have fun in a Family-Friendly Environment!
