Coppélia
CoppĂ©lia (sometimes subtitled: La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)) is a comic ballet from 1870 originally choreographed by Arthur Saint-LĂ©on to the music of LĂ©o Delibes, with libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scène was based upon E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story Der Sandmann (The Sandman). In Greek, κοπÎλα (or κοπελιά in some dialects) means young woman. CoppĂ©lia premiered on 25 May 1870 at the Théâtre ImpĂ©rial de l'OpĂ©ra, with the 16-year-old Giuseppina Bozzacchi in the principal role of Swanhilda and ballerina EugĂ©nie Fiocre playing the part of Frantz en travesti. The costumes were designed by Paul Lormier and Alfred Albert, the scenery by Charles-Antoine Cambon (Act I, scene 1; Act II, scene 1), and Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Act I, scene 2).
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