La fille mal gardée

La Fille mal gardée ( The badly guarded daughter) is one of the oldest classical ballets and one of the few from that era that are still in the Répertoire of the great ballet companies.

Piece of History

It was on July 1, 1789 in the Grand Théâtre of Bordeaux under the title Le ballet de la paille, ou Il n'est qu'un pas du mal au bien premiered ( The straw ballet or from bad to good, it is only one step ). Author, choreographer and dancer, Jean Dauberval, who was ballet master in Bordeaux at the time.

The idea for this ballet was Dauberval from the image Young girl being scolded by his mother of Pierre -Antoine Baudouin from the year 1764, on the next to the girl and the mother her lover can be seen in the background as he edges away. La Fille mal gardée is the first ballet in which a realistic action is brought on the stage, and no gods or mythological beings longer play a role.

After the premiere in Bordeaux followed on April 30, 1791 performance at the Pantheon Theatre in London, now under its present title, in the next ten years, more performance in most of Europe, not only in Paris, where in 1803 a production at the Porte Saint -Martin held by Eugène Hus. 1828 took over the Paris opera La Fille mal gardée in their repertoire, now under the ballet master Jean -Pierre Aumer, a student Dauberval what he did revise the original music by Ferdinand Herold. 1854 ballet of the Paris repertoire was taken out and then ran in France in oblivion. In Russia, however, worked Charles Didelot, who had danced the ballet in London, as ballet master at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and in 1848 brought it with Fanny Elssler on stage. The piece was in 1885 ( The futile care ) with Virginia Zucchi listed in the version by Marius Petipa with that of Peter Ludwig Hertel 1864 abridged for Paul Taglioni score and with the support of Lev Ivanov under the title La Precaution inutile in the lead role - a version to which Bronislava Nijinska based its the piece to the Ballet Theatre in New York brought in 1940.

For the French-speaking world it was Joseph Lazzini, who in 1954 brought the new ballet after a hundred years on the stage, in Liège and in a version that was danced in 1962 by Rosella Hightower and Nureyev in Marseille. Heinz Spoerli brought La Fille mal gardée 1981 commissioned by the Paris Opera back to the capital.

Other famous versions are:

  • London 1912 by Anna Pavlovna Pavlova
  • Monte Carlo 1947 by Alexandra Balachova
  • London 1960 by Frederick Ashton
  • Leningrad in 1971 by Oleg Winogradov
  • 1972 by Dimitri Romanoff
  • 1974 by Alicia Alonso
  • Paris 1981 by Heinz Spoerli

People

  • Lise, a young woman
  • Colin, her lover
  • Marceline, Lise's mother, a wealthy farmer
  • Michaud, a wealthy miller
  • Nicaise, whose son
  • The Gardener
  • The governess
  • The Head of House
  • The notary

Action

First Photo

In the yard. Marceline wants her daughter Lise married to the son of the miller Michaud. Lise, however, has decided a pawn in the service of her mother for Colin, and attempts to circumvent their will. Marceline the other hand, prevents the two by working on it to pursue their own agendas, Michaud also calls to him to stop playing hide her daughter and to make the wedding determined.

Second Picture

On the field. Lise and Colin have fled, Marceline finds it, Michaud and his entire entourage in tow, and gives the engagement known. A storm comes on, Colin and Lise can flee again in the short term, but are brought back.

Third picture

In the house. Marceline Lise keeps under lock and key. Colin manages to slip under the cover of other farmers who bring in the sheaves rescued from the rain into the house. Marceline goes to the village, comes earlier than expected with a wedding dress back, the Lise now is to try while Colin is hiding in the barn. Michaud and the notary are added, Marceline locks the continued defensive end against the wedding Lise quickly and unconsciously to Colin in the barn - where they discovered the two after completing the formalities entwined in the hay: " The girl and his affectionate friend were just, were just about to say ... Nothing is enough said ... When the mother arrived on time, arrived on time ... That you could say that. " ( Denis Diderot, in Salon de Baudoin to image 1765 ) the marriage has broken Michaud now refuses to fulfill the agreement, whereupon Marceline agrees to the wedding of Lise and Colin.

Fourth image

The engagement of Lise and Colin is celebrated - and a marriage between Marceline and Michaud in the offing.

Jean-Louis Aumer Sheet music Anna Pavlova
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