Ballett: Die Kameliendame - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballett: Die Kameliendame
Text based on the novel »La dame aux camélias« by Alexandre the Younger
Cast
Musical direction
Markus Lehtinen
Music
Frédéric Chopin
Choreography & Staging
John Neumeier
Stage & Costumes
Jürgen Rose
Light
Ralf Merkel
Rehearsal
Kevin Haigen
Piano
Anika Vavic
Piano on the stage
Igor Zapravdin
Contents
An estate goes under the hammer. They are the remains of a glamorous possession of one of the most dazzling women in 19th-century Paris: the courtesan Marguerite Gautier. Armand Duval has also turned up. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the auction and under the gaze of the curious crowd, his memories overtake him, it was he with whom Marguerite discovered true love. For a summer they spent a life of bliss in the countryside far away from the demi-monde of Paris. But for Armand, family honor was at stake. And unaware that his father was forcing Marguerite into it, he had to watch his beloved return to her old life - and eventually perish from it.
When Alexandre Dumas the Younger J. published his autobiographically colored novel La dame aux camélias in 1848, he not only had his greatest success, but also provided some of the most moving material for the stage. Just five years later, Giuseppe Verdi brought his opera La traviata based on the novel to the stage in Venice's Teatro La Fenice. Artists such as Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse and Käthe Dorsch celebrated triumphs in a theatrical version written by Dumas himself, and Greta Garbo lent her face to Marguerite Movie. Of the versions for the dance stage, Frederick Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand, created in 1963 for two outstanding performers: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, deserves special mention. No less spectacular was the cast with which the Stuttgart Ballet presented John Neumeier's The Lady of the Camellias fifteen years later: a full-length narrative ballet created for Marcia Haydée, Egon Madsen, Birgit Keil, Richard Cragun, Reid Anderson and many others. To this day, this is not only one of the most moving, but also one of the masterpieces of recent dance history in its dramatic construction, the characters created with the greatest clarity and intensity and the design by Jürgen Roses, which congenially evokes the Parisian flair of the 19th century in subtle pictures and magnificent costumes . In addition to the Stuttgart Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet, with whom the piece was performed for the first time in Vienna in 2014, only a few companies carefully selected by John Neumeier can include Die Kameliendame in their repertoire. From 2024, the Vienna State Ballet will also be one of these, which with the elaborate production not only enriches its repertoire with a Neumeier treasure, but also with one of the great narrative ballets.
Looking back, choreographer Armand Duval develops his passionate relationship with Marguerite Gautier. The two meet for the first time in a theater-in-the-theater situation, but Marguerite also sees her own life reflected in a harrowing way in an old love tragedy shown as a ballet – the story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux. Following a cinematic dramaturgy, Neumeier subtly superimposes »external« situations, which depict Parisian society with a light hand, with the »inner« emotional states of his characters, in which his dance unfolds all imaginable psychological shades: full of elegance and carefree cheerfulness, drunk with passion or lust for life , rearing up in existential drama or with a fragility that gets under your skin in the face of death.
In Frédéric Chopin he found the ideal musical partner to depict the superficialities of Parisian society and human passions with virtuosity but also melancholic forlornness. The Largo from Chopin's Sonata in B minor forms the recurring leitmotif in a score composed of piano works, the two concertos and other pieces for piano and orchestra, for which two pianists meet for a Chopin marathon that goes far beyond the requirements of a recital exceeds.
Subject to change.
Cast
Musical direction
Markus Lehtinen
Music
Frédéric Chopin
Choreography & Staging
John Neumeier
Stage & Costumes
Jürgen Rose
Light
Ralf Merkel
Rehearsal
Kevin Haigen
Piano
Anika Vavic
Piano on the stage
Igor Zapravdin
Contents
An estate goes under the hammer. They are the remains of a glamorous possession of one of the most dazzling women in 19th-century Paris: the courtesan Marguerite Gautier. Armand Duval has also turned up. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the auction and under the gaze of the curious crowd, his memories overtake him, it was he with whom Marguerite discovered true love. For a summer they spent a life of bliss in the countryside far away from the demi-monde of Paris. But for Armand, family honor was at stake. And unaware that his father was forcing Marguerite into it, he had to watch his beloved return to her old life - and eventually perish from it.
When Alexandre Dumas the Younger J. published his autobiographically colored novel La dame aux camélias in 1848, he not only had his greatest success, but also provided some of the most moving material for the stage. Just five years later, Giuseppe Verdi brought his opera La traviata based on the novel to the stage in Venice's Teatro La Fenice. Artists such as Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse and Käthe Dorsch celebrated triumphs in a theatrical version written by Dumas himself, and Greta Garbo lent her face to Marguerite Movie. Of the versions for the dance stage, Frederick Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand, created in 1963 for two outstanding performers: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, deserves special mention. No less spectacular was the cast with which the Stuttgart Ballet presented John Neumeier's The Lady of the Camellias fifteen years later: a full-length narrative ballet created for Marcia Haydée, Egon Madsen, Birgit Keil, Richard Cragun, Reid Anderson and many others. To this day, this is not only one of the most moving, but also one of the masterpieces of recent dance history in its dramatic construction, the characters created with the greatest clarity and intensity and the design by Jürgen Roses, which congenially evokes the Parisian flair of the 19th century in subtle pictures and magnificent costumes . In addition to the Stuttgart Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet, with whom the piece was performed for the first time in Vienna in 2014, only a few companies carefully selected by John Neumeier can include Die Kameliendame in their repertoire. From 2024, the Vienna State Ballet will also be one of these, which with the elaborate production not only enriches its repertoire with a Neumeier treasure, but also with one of the great narrative ballets.
Looking back, choreographer Armand Duval develops his passionate relationship with Marguerite Gautier. The two meet for the first time in a theater-in-the-theater situation, but Marguerite also sees her own life reflected in a harrowing way in an old love tragedy shown as a ballet – the story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux. Following a cinematic dramaturgy, Neumeier subtly superimposes »external« situations, which depict Parisian society with a light hand, with the »inner« emotional states of his characters, in which his dance unfolds all imaginable psychological shades: full of elegance and carefree cheerfulness, drunk with passion or lust for life , rearing up in existential drama or with a fragility that gets under your skin in the face of death.
In Frédéric Chopin he found the ideal musical partner to depict the superficialities of Parisian society and human passions with virtuosity but also melancholic forlornness. The Largo from Chopin's Sonata in B minor forms the recurring leitmotif in a score composed of piano works, the two concertos and other pieces for piano and orchestra, for which two pianists meet for a Chopin marathon that goes far beyond the requirements of a recital exceeds.
Subject to change.
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