Who wrote the ballet 'The Box of Toys' first performed in Paris in 1919?
"was the first state music conservatory in Europe; famous students and faculty included composers Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy and Nadia Boulanger. The school now located within the Cité de la Musique, near the Philharmonic Hall, in the 19th arrondissement. The first and most famous ballet school in France, the ""École de danse de l'Opéra national de Paris"", the school of dance of the Paris opera, was founded in 1669 for adult dancers, and began taking children as students beginning in 1776. Virtually all of the main dancers of the Paris ballet are graduates of he school."
"La boîte à joujoux La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box) is a ballet score by Claude Debussy, orchestrated from Debussy's piano score by André Caplet. In 1913 Debussy was approached by the artist and writer André Hellé, who had devised a ballet scenario from his children’s tale ""La boîte à joujoux"". A children's theme appealed to Debussy, who was devoted to his own young daughter, Emma-Claude, (known as ""Chouchou""), and had already written his suite ""Children's Corner"" for her. He composed the piano score, but the outbreak of the First World War caused the ballet to be postponed, and it"
"live happily ever after. La boîte à joujoux La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box) is a ballet score by Claude Debussy, orchestrated from Debussy's piano score by André Caplet. In 1913 Debussy was approached by the artist and writer André Hellé, who had devised a ballet scenario from his children’s tale ""La boîte à joujoux"". A children's theme appealed to Debussy, who was devoted to his own young daughter, Emma-Claude, (known as ""Chouchou""), and had already written his suite ""Children's Corner"" for her. He composed the piano score, but the outbreak of the First World War caused the ballet to"
"included the following: La Boutique fantasque La Boutique fantasque, also known as ""The Magic Toyshop"" or ""The Fantastic Toyshop"", is a ballet in one act conceived by Léonide Massine, who devised the choreography for a libretto written with the artist André Derain, a pioneer of Fauvism. Derain also designed the décor and costumes for the ballet. Ottorino Respighi wrote the music based on piano pieces by Gioachino Rossini. Its world premiere was at the Alhambra Theatre in London on 5 June 1919, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Massine described how, in Rome for a ballet season, Respighi brought the"
"La Boutique fantasque La Boutique fantasque, also known as ""The Magic Toyshop"" or ""The Fantastic Toyshop"", is a ballet in one act conceived by Léonide Massine, who devised the choreography for a libretto written with the artist André Derain, a pioneer of Fauvism. Derain also designed the décor and costumes for the ballet. Ottorino Respighi wrote the music based on piano pieces by Gioachino Rossini. Its world premiere was at the Alhambra Theatre in London on 5 June 1919, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Massine described how, in Rome for a ballet season, Respighi brought the score of Rossini's"
"Jeu de cartes (Balanchine) Jeu de cartes (Card Game) is a ballet in three ""deals"" by Igor Stravinsky composed in 1936–37, with libretto by the composer in collaboration with M. Malaieff (a friend of Stravinsky's eldest son ) and choreography by George Balanchine. The ballet was premiered by the American Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 27 April 1937, with the composer conducting. The European premier was on 13 October 1937 at the Dresden Staatsoper. The New York City Ballet premiere took place on 15 February 1951 under the title ""The Card Game"" at City Center"
"Steadfast Tin Soldier"" derive from this earlier collaboration. The Steadfast Tin Soldier (ballet) The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Bizet's ""Jeux d'enfants"" (1871), Op. 22, Nos. 6, 3, 11 and 12. The premiere took place on July 30, 1975, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, New York, which commissioned the work. It is based on Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale of wistful love between a tin soldier and a paper-doll ballerina. Balanchine, Francisco Moncion and Barbara Milberg choreographed the entirety of ""Jeux d'enfants"" in 1955,"
"Léonide Massine Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, ""Les Présages"", and many others in the same vein. Besides his ""symphonic ballets,"" Massine choreographed many other popular works during his long career, some of which were serious and dramatic, and others lighthearted and romantic. He created some of his most famous roles in his own comic works, among them the Can-Can Dancer in ""La Boutique fantasque"" (1919), the Hussar in ""Le Beau Danube"" (1924),"
"was not staged until 1919, after the composer's death. The work, which plays for about half an hour is in seven sections: Of the toys in Hellé's box there are three principals, to each of whom Debussy gives a little leitmotiv: a toy soldier, a pretty doll, and a foolish and quarrelsome polichinelle. The soldier falls in love with the doll, but the polichinelle will not give her up. There is a fierce battle, and the soldier is wounded by the polichinelle, who then renounces the doll. She nurses the soldier, falls in love with him, and they marry and"
"critique, prior to its first production. The ballet's premiere in Paris on 17 May 1921 was a huge success and was greeted with great admiration by an audience that included Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel. Stravinsky called the ballet ""the single piece of modern music he could listen to with pleasure,"" while Ravel called it ""a work of genius."" During World War I, Prokofiev returned to the Conservatory and studied organ to avoid conscription. He composed ""The Gambler"" based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name, but rehearsals were plagued by problems, and the scheduled 1917 première"
"also created a ""La valse"" ballet in 1958 for The Royal Ballet. Notably, at the premiere Francis Poulenc complimented Ashton on what he thought was the first successful interpretation of Ravel's intentions for the music. La valse La valse, ""poème chorégraphique pour orchestre"" (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been described as a tribute to the waltz, and the composer"
"The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Dance Class is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting and its companion work in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris are amongst the most ambitious works by Degas on the theme of ballet. The imaginary scene depicts a dance class being held under the supervision of Jules Perrot, a famous ballet master, in the old Paris Opera, which had actually burnt down the previous year. The poster on the wall for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell is a tribute to the operatic"
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier (ballet) The Steadfast Tin Soldier is a ballet made on New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to Bizet's ""Jeux d'enfants"" (1871), Op. 22, Nos. 6, 3, 11 and 12. The premiere took place on July 30, 1975, at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, New York, which commissioned the work. It is based on Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale of wistful love between a tin soldier and a paper-doll ballerina. Balanchine, Francisco Moncion and Barbara Milberg choreographed the entirety of ""Jeux d'enfants"" in 1955, and the context and woman's variation of ""The"
"Les cadeaux de Noël Les cadeaux de Noël (""The Christmas Gifts"") is an opera in one act composed by Xavier Leroux to a French-language libretto by Émile Fabre. Described as a (heroic tale), it was premiered by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart Theatre in Paris on Christmas Day 1915. Its story of four children, whose parents had been killed by German soldiers but who nevertheless found hope in a seemingly bleak Christmas, had a particular resonance with French audiences in the midst of World War I. The opera was a great success in Paris, and subsequently performed in Italy,"
"times. The Lady in the Ice The Lady in the Ice is a 1953 ballet composed by Jean-Michel Damase, choreographed by Roland Petit, and directed by Orson Welles, based on an idea by Welles. Welles also wrote the libretto and was the ballet's costume and set designer. Richard Negri was the assistant designer. It was Welles's only attempt at a ballet. The ballet was staged by the Ballet de Paris, premiering on 7 September 1953 at the Stoll Theatre in London. The cast included Colette Marchand, Georges Reich, and Joe Milan. Later in 1953 the ballet was produced by Petit"
"Notre Dame de Paris (ballet) Notre Dame de Paris is a ballet by French choreographer Roland Petit. It was premiered by the Paris Opera Ballet in 1967. The ballet is based on the Victor Hugo's novel ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". It was the first work Roland Petit created for the Paris Opera Ballet, a company he had left 20 years earlier. This ballet was very successful and continues to be performed to the present, including a series of performances at the Opéra national de Paris at the end of the 2013-2014 season, at the Opera Bastille and a production"
"Gaîté Parisienne Gaîté Parisienne (literally, ""Parisian Gaiety"") is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Jacques Offenbach orchestrated by Manuel Rosenthal in collaboration with Jacques Brindejonc-Offenbach, the composer's nephew. With a libretto and décor by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and costumes executed by Barbara Karinska, it was first presented by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 5 April 1938. Performed in one act, the ballet does not have a conventional narrative. Instead, it depicts the amorous flirtations, convivial dancing, and high spirits of a diverse group of people who patronize a"
"the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914) to write the music. There is no evidence, however, despite the much-repeated story that Lyadov was slow to start composing the work, that he ever accepted the commission to begin with. There is evidence to suggest that Nikolai Tcherepnin had previously started composing music for the ballet—music which became ""The Enchanted Kingdom""—but that Tcherepnin, for reasons unexplained, withdrew from the project after completing only one scene. Diaghilev eventually transferred the commission to the 28-year-old Stravinsky. The ballet was premiered by the Ballets Russes at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 25 June 1910, conducted"
"The Lady in the Ice The Lady in the Ice is a 1953 ballet composed by Jean-Michel Damase, choreographed by Roland Petit, and directed by Orson Welles, based on an idea by Welles. Welles also wrote the libretto and was the ballet's costume and set designer. Richard Negri was the assistant designer. It was Welles's only attempt at a ballet. The ballet was staged by the Ballet de Paris, premiering on 7 September 1953 at the Stoll Theatre in London. The cast included Colette Marchand, Georges Reich, and Joe Milan. Later in 1953 the ballet was produced by Petit in"
"performers eagerly awaiting the new ballet. Picasso made a sketch of Massine and Lopukhova in their final pose. Paris saw ""La Boutique fantasque"" for the first time on Christmas Eve 1919. Despite Massine's dismissal from the Ballets Russes in early January 1921, the ballet was revived in the following May at the Prince's Theatre in London and at the Gaîté-Lyrique in Paris in 1925 and on tour in Europe in the following years, and was on the bill of the final performance of Diaghilev's company in Vichy on 4 August 1929; the impresario died two weeks later in Venice. The"
"Frederic Franklin and explanatory English subtitles. Gaîté Parisienne Gaîté Parisienne (literally, ""Parisian Gaiety"") is a ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Jacques Offenbach orchestrated by Manuel Rosenthal in collaboration with Jacques Brindejonc-Offenbach, the composer's nephew. With a libretto and décor by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and costumes executed by Barbara Karinska, it was first presented by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 5 April 1938. Performed in one act, the ballet does not have a conventional narrative. Instead, it depicts the amorous flirtations, convivial dancing, and high spirits of a diverse"
"Panizza; and ""Noël"", produced at the Paris Opéra-Comique on 28 December 1910. In 1935 his ballet ""Les cents baisers"", with a libretto by Boris Kochno, was produced by the Ballets Russes, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska, with decor and costumes by Jean Hugo. His other works included a string quartet, a sonata for violin and pianoforte, an ""Andante symphonique"" for cello and orchestra, a quintet for pianoforte and strings, a ""Suite symphonique"" for orchestra (1895), a violin concerto, Op. 17, played by Fritz Kreisler at the Philharmonic Concert of 12 March 1903, and a ""Concerto symphonique"" for piano and orchestra (1921)."
"La valse La valse, ""poème chorégraphique pour orchestre"" (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris. It was conceived as a ballet but is now more often heard as a concert work. The work has been described as a tribute to the waltz, and the composer George Benjamin, in his analysis of ""La valse"", summarized the ethos of the work: Whether or not it was intended as a metaphor for the predicament of European civilization in the aftermath of the Great"
"Jean-Georges Noverre Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ""ballet d'action"", a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as International Dance Day. His first professional appearances occurred as a youth in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, at Fontainebleau, in Berlin before Frederick II and his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, in Dresden and Strasburg. In 1747 he moved to Strasbourg, where he remained until 1750 before moving to Lyon. In 1751, he composed his first great work, ""Les Fêtes"
"in 2013 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Music: Maurice Jarre<br> Libretto: after Victor Hugo<br> Sets: René Allio<br> Costumes: Yves Saint Laurent<br> Original cast:<br> Esmeralda: Claire Motte<br> Quasimodo: Roland Petit<br> Frollo: Cyril Atanassoff<br> Phoebus: Jean-Pierre Bonnefous<br> Notre Dame de Paris (ballet) Notre Dame de Paris is a ballet by French choreographer Roland Petit. It was premiered by the Paris Opera Ballet in 1967. The ballet is based on the Victor Hugo's novel ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". It was the first work Roland Petit created for the Paris Opera Ballet, a company he had left 20 years earlier. This"
"a ""rustic and comic"" two-act ballet of the 18th century, Jean Dauberval's ""La fille mal gardée"" ['The ill-watched Daughter' or 'Useless Precautions']. For the inaugural season of Ballet Theatre (now ABT), it opened in January 1940 in New York City at the old Center Theatre in Rockefeller Plaza. ""La Fille Mal Gardée"" is perhaps ""the oldest ballet in the contemporary repertory"" whose ""comic situations are no doubt responsible for its survival."" Jean Dauberval wrote the libretto and first choreography, the original music being a mix of popular French songs. Premiering at Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1789, the comedy ""quickly"
"Léon Bakst. It premiered at Monte Carlo on 19 April 1911. The 1946 film ""Specter of the Rose"", directed by Ben Hecht, is unrelated to the ballet in its plot, but excerpts from the ballet and the Weber/Berlioz music are featured. The film score proper was written by George Antheil. Joseph Lanner quoted ""Invitation to the Dance"" in his waltz ""Aufforderung zum Tänze"", Op. 7. In 1849, August Bournonville produced for the Royal Danish Ballet a vaudeville ballet called ""Le Conservatoire"", which uses Holger Simon Paulli's orchestrations of various pieces, including ""Invitation to the Dance"", and works by Chopin and"
"and internationally until Diaghilev's death in 1929. The set designers included Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí. Its choreographers included Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972), the younger sister of the star dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, and a young George Balanchine (1904-1983). In 1924, Balanchine, then a dancer, fled a Soviet dance company on tour in the Weimar Republic and came to Paris, where Diaghilev hired him as a choreographer. The most famous production was the 1924 ballet ""Le Train Bleu"" with a story by Cocteau, music by Darius Milhaud, costumes by Coco Chanel and a curtain painted by"
"Mendez in Moscow in 1897 and by Serge and Nicholas Legat in Saint Petersburg in 1903. Others note the similarities to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"". Massine's scenario centers on the love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toyshop, incorporating elements of comedy, national folk dance and mime, as well as classical choreography. The ballet is set in France in 1860. A world-famous toymaker has created exquisite dancing dolls in his magic toyshop. The automata perform various dance routines for the prospective customers. At first the toys entertain two English ladies and an American family. Some"
"Rolf de Maré Rolf de Maré (9 May 1888 – 28 April 1964), sometimes called Rolf de Mare, was a Swedish art collector and leader of the Ballets Suédois in Paris in 1920–25. In 1933 he founded the world's first museum for dance in Paris. Rolf de Maré was born in Stockholm in 1888 as the son of diplomat Henrik de Maré and sculptor Ellen Roosval von Hallwyl. In 1913 he made friends with post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel who was not particularly well off, but imaginative and talented, while de Maré was enthusiastic and had money. In 1918, through"
"choreographed by Nijinska, the music being Maurice Ravel's ""La valse"". It opened in Monte Carlo in 1929. A version of the ballet ""Le Baiser de la Fée"" [Kiss of the Fairy] originated when Ida Rubinstein asked Igor Stravinsky to compose music to be choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska. It would be staged in 1928. ""The idea was that I should compose something inspired by the music of Tchaikovsky,"" wrote Stravinsky. For a theme he chose Hans Christian Andersen's 'eerie' tale of The Ice-Maiden, to which he put a positive spin: ""A fairy imprints her magic kiss on a child at birth"
"Symphony in C (ballet) Symphony in C, originally titled ""Le Palais de Cristal"", is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Georges Bizet's Symphony in C (1855). The music of the ballet, which Bizet wrote at the age of 17 while studying with Charles Gounod at the Paris Conservatory, was lost and only rediscovered and published in 1933 (Stravinsky informed Balanchine of this). The premiere was on Monday, July 28, 1947, in the Théâtre National de l'Opéra with the Paris Opéra Ballet where Balanchine was guest ballet master. According to City Ballet docents"
"""Sons and Lovers"" — Franz Kafka, ""The Judgement"" — Blaise Cendrars, ""La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France"" — Guillaume Apollinaire, ""Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913"", edited by Tristan Tzara — Blaise Cendrars, ""La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France"", a collaborative artists' book with near abstract pochoir print by Sonia Delaunay-Terk — Francis Jammes, ""Feuilles dans le vent"" — 29 May - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score ""The Rite of Spring"" is premiered in Paris — 12 December - Vincenzo Perugia tries to sell ""Mona Lisa"" in Florence and is arrested. Apollinaire had been"