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''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.〔C. W. Beaumont, "La Boutique Fantasque", in ''Complete Book of Ballets'' (New York, 1938; reprint, London, 1951). The 14-page discussion of ''La Boutique Fantasque'' gives much information on the first performance, the original setting, and an extended description of the story line.〕 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.〔〔Horst Koegler, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet,'' 2nd ed. (Oxford and New York, 1987).〕 Massine described how, in Rome for a ballet season, Respighi brought the score of Rossini's ''Péchés de vieillesse'' to Diaghilev. The impresario played them to Massine and Respighi. Toulouse-Lautrec was an influence on the period setting and style of ''La Boutique fantasque'', and Massine envisaged the principal character "quite Lautrec-like".〔Drummond, John. Interviews with Massine in: ''Speaking of Diaghilev''. Faber and Faber, London, 1997.〕 Diaghilev arranged for Massine to meet Derain in Paris, and they worked out the scenario with the artist's marionette theatre at his home on the rue Bonaparte. The date of the action was moved from 1832 to the 1860s.〔Buckle R. ''Diaghilev.'' London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd, 1979, p353.〕 The story of the ballet has similarities to ''Die Puppenfee'' ("The Fairy Doll") of Josef Bayer, an old German ballet that had been performed by Jose 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''.〔Grace Robert, ''The Borzoi Book of Ballets'' (New York, 1946), pp. 66ff.〕 Massine's scenario centers on the love story between two can-can dancer dolls in a toyshop,〔(boutiquefantasque )〕 incorporating elements of comedy, national folk dance and mime, as well as classical choreography. ==Story== 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 dolls perform a tarantella for the guests, followed by other dolls dressed as playing cards who dance a mazurka. Then two dolls come in and perform another routine involving a snob and a melon vendor. New customers arrive, a Russian family, and everyone welcomes them. Five Cossack dolls enter and perform a traditional dance, followed by an animal act featuring two dancing poodles.〔 Then the shop-keeper introduces his most sophisticated dancing dolls, a pair of can-can dancers, a flashly-dressed man and girl, come in and perform their routine. Their dance is so enchanting that the American family decides to buy the male doll while the Russian family buys the female dancing doll. The deals are made and paid for, the dolls are placed in separate boxes and collection is arranged for the next day.〔 Darkness descends, but during the night the dolls magically come to life and start dancing. They are upset that the two can-can dancers who are lovers are going to be separated, and a plot is hatched to hide them before the customers return in the morning. When the shop opens the next day and the customers come in to pick up their dolls, they discover that the can-can dancers are no longer there. The customers, not knowing about the secret life of the dolls, blame the shop owner and attack him and his assistant. In the ensuing fracas the dolls come to the shopkeeper's rescue with the Cossack dolls attacking the customers with their bayonets. Driven out of the shop, the customers watch incredulously through the window as the happy dolls and the shopkeeper dance merrily inside with the re-united can-can dancers.〔〔Beaumont (1938)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Boutique fantasque」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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