Coppelia

E. T. A.Hoffmann is widelyassociated with The Nutcracker while fewer know that the story of Coppeliais based on his short story, The Sandman (Der Sandmann). The author,known to be a polymath himself, also designed various machines and automatons, and he was perfectly aware how easy it is to fall in love with your own creation. A ballet version of Coppelia was first premiered in Hungary in1877, later it was adapted by Gyula Harangozó, in 1953. More thanseventy years afterwards, on the fiftieth anniversary of the choreographer’s death, the production returns to the Hungarian National Ballet’s repertoire to prove that classical ballet, pantomime, and magic tricks can co-exist just as perfectly as Léo Delibes’ late romantic music and the Hungarian czardas.

AUTHORS

Choreographer: Gyula Harangozó
Composer: Léo Delibes
Music revised by: Jenő Kenessey
Assistant choreographer: Irén Hamala
Trained and staged by: Gyula Harangozó Jr.
Costume designer: Zoltán Fülöp, Attila Csikós
Costume designer: Tivadar Márk, Rita Velich
Répétiteur: Levente Bajári, Blanka Fajth
Company répétiteurs: Albert Mirzoyan, Aliya Tanykpayeva
Dance Academy students trained by: Levente Bajári, Stanislav Beliaevski