Coppélia by Alexei Ratmansky, music by Delibes (world premiere)
Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company
Cast
Alexei Ratmansky — Choreographer
Jérôme Kaplan — Set designer, costume designer
Marco Filibeck — Lighting
Guillaume Gallienne — Dramaturgy
Nicoletta Manni — Swanilda
Timofej Andrijashenko — Franz
Christian Fagetti — Coppélius
Program notes
"The movement seems a pure embodiment of the music," making "conventional ballet vocabulary look spontaneous and fresh" in this brand-new choreography of Delibes's Coppélia by the great Alexei Ratmansky, who "has infused [the classic work] with new life" (The New York Times). Sit back and catch the ballet's thrilling world premiere from Milan's legendary La Scala, presented exclusively on medici.tv! Can Swanhilda (Nicoletta Manni) save her beloved Franz (Timofej Andrijashenko) from the spell of the beautiful, eerily lifelike doll Coppélia, created by the sinister Dr. Coppélius (Christian Fagetti)?
MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient Ratmansky, "the most significant classical choreographer of the current era" (The Guardian), is the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and, having left Russia in protest following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, current artist in residence of the New York City Ballet. His production of Coppélia, a longtime repertoire favorite with sumptuous music by Léo Delibes and based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman, features the celebrated corps de ballet of La Scala in never-before-seen sets and costumes by Jérôme Kaplan.
Photo © Teatro alla Scala / Brescia & Amisano
