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''Le Dieu bleu'' is a ballet in one act choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Reynaldo Hahn, set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau and Federico de Madrazo y Ochoa. Léon Bakst designed the sets and costumes. The ballet was a failure at the premiere in Paris, on 13 May 1912 at the Théâtre du Châtelet. ''Le Dieu bleu'' was staged three times in Paris in 1912, three times in London in 1913, and revived in London in April 2011 with music cobbled together from the works of Scriabin and with choreography by Wayne Eagling. The revival was not a success. == Background == Ballet impresario and producer Sergei Diaghilev staged two exotic ballets for the Ballets Russes: ''Cléopâtre'' in 1909 and ''Scheherazade'' in 1910, both great successes with the Parisian public. He hoped that ''Le Dieu bleu'' (another exotic ballet) would be equally successful.〔 It was one of six new ballets for the 1911 Ballets Russes season. The others were ''Narcisse'', ''La Peri'', ''Le Spectre de la Rose'', ''Sadko'', and ''Petrushka''. Michel Fokine would choreograph all of them. Léon Bakst would design the sets and costumes for the first four. When Fokine and Bakst started work on Ida Rubinstein's ballet, ''Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien'', Diaghilev felt betrayed. He pushed ''Dieu'' forward to 1912 although he lost interest in the ballet, and spent huge amounts of money on the production in the hope that ''Dieu'' would make Nijinsky a great international star.〔 Fokine started work on ''Dieu'' in St. Petersburg in the winter of 1911-1912. He based some of his ideas for the ballet on the dances of the Royal Siamese Court ballet. This company had danced in St. Petersburg in 1900. Fokine also studied the arts of India, but in the end his dances for ''Dieu'' were uninspired and dull.〔 Hahn's music could have been the reason, as it was not very good.〔 Prince Lieven, a critic and historian of the Ballets Russes, said the music had no interest or importance, but only that it was "sweet and insipid." Bakst based his ideas for the sets and costumes on the posters and printed materials for the Cambodian Ballet's 1906 productions in France. 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「Le Dieu bleu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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