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''La Sylphide'' ((英語:''The Sylph''); (デンマーク語:Sylfiden)) is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original one choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a version choreographed by August Bournonville in 1836. Bournonville's is the only version known to have survived and thus is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets. == Taglioni version== On March 12, 1832, the first version of ''La Sylphide'' premiered at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra with choreography by the groundbreaking Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni and music by Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer. Taglioni designed the work as a showcase for his daughter Marie. ''La Sylphide'' was the first ballet where dancing ''en pointe'' had an aesthetic rationale and was not merely an acrobatic stunt, often involving ungraceful arm movements and exertions, as had been the approach of dancers in the late 1820s. Marie was known for shortening her skirts in the performance of ''La Sylphide'' (to show off her excellent pointe work), which was considered highly scandalous at the time. The ballet's libretto was written by tenor Adolphe Nourrit, the first "Robert" in Meyerbeer's ''Robert Le Diable'', an opera which featured Marie Taglioni in its dances section, "The Ballet of Nuns." Nourrit's scenario was loosely based on a story by Charles Nodier, "Trilby, ou Le lutin d'Argail," but swapped the genders of the protagonists — a goblin and a fisherman's wife of Nodier; a sylph and a farmer in the ballet. The scene of the Old Madge's witchcraft which opens Act II of the ballet was inspired by Niccolò Paganini's ''Le Streghe'', which in its turn was inspired by a scene of witches from ''Орех Беневенто'', an 1812 ballet by choreographer Salvatore Viganò and composer Franz Xaver Süssmayr.〔'〕 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 Sylphide」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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