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Mirjana1
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(10/26/05 9:19 am)
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Fairy tales in operas, ballet, classical music overall
There are well known fairy tales presented through classical music that come to mind: "Swan Lake", "Nutcracker", "Rusalka", "Peter and the Wolf" "Magic Flute" (I am just noticing that most of these are all Eastern European). Any other ones you can think of? I am doing a presentation and would appreciate any help I can get.
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Veronica Schanoes
Registered User
(10/26/05 10:05 am)
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Re: Fairy tales in operas, ballet, classical music overall
There is more than one version of Bluebeard in opera, I believe. There are also ballets of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. You might also look at the movie The Red Shoes, an absurdly sexist movie with some beautiful dancing (it contains a ballet of the fairy tale).
Edited by: Veronica Schanoes at: 10/26/05 10:05 am
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Mirjana1
Registered User
(10/26/05 11:49 am)
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Re: Fairy tales in operas, ballet, classical music overall
I just thought ot "Hansel and Gretel" and "Midsummer Night Dream" too. I also found through the internet search "The Emperor's New Clothes".
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janeyolen
Registered User
(10/27/05 5:26 am)
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Re: Fairy tales in operas, ballet, classical music overall
My daughter and I have a new book out called THE BAREFOOT BOOK OF BALLET STORIES (Barefooot is the name of the publisher!) and not only do we retell the ballets of Nutcracker, Coppelia (both from E. T. A. Hoffman stories originally) but Sleeping Beauty , Cinderella, and Swan Lake which are European based (though the last comes from Russian tales, actually). We also do Daphnis and Chloe which is based on Greek tales, and Shim Chung whichcomes from a Korean folktale.
Jane
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(10/27/05 8:53 am)
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Re: Fairy tales in operas, ballet, classical music overall
I can confirm the Bluebeard opera; I saw it on TV a while back. There's also a short ballet version of Little Mermaid in the classic Hans Christian Andersen movie.
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gigi
Unregistered User
(10/27/05 8:38 pm)
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opera,ballet
I believe the opera Turandot is based off of a folk tale that involves riddles.
Also, La bayadere is based off of an Indian epic poem. The music is by Minkus. It was choerographed first by Petipa I believe. It originateds in the Kirov I think.
Tyhe stravinsky score the Firebird is usually conerted into a ballet. They take the russian tale of Ivan and the Firebird and tell that tale. (The firebird is really all about dying and rebirth, not really the actaul story)
Orfeo ed eurydice is an opera and a ballet respectively but in the 1800s)
Cinderella is alos a popular ballet by CAlled by the french name Cindrillion.
There is alos an Italian Opera called LA Cerentola based off of Perraults version. I believe it was created int eh 1990s.
Good luck on your presentation.
gigi
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Mirjana1
Registered User
(10/28/05 12:28 pm)
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Thanks all
For such great input. I am sure there are more, so please, keep on bringing them on! :-)
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(10/28/05 4:59 pm)
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Oranges?
Isn't there something called 'Love for Three Oranges' based on an Italian tale?
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kristiw
Unregistered User
(10/28/05 7:42 pm)
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operas
There's Strauss' Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without A Shadow), about a childless Empress who is half-human, half-spirit.
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rosyelf
Registered User
(10/30/05 2:10 am)
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operas, ballets, etc
"Sadko" is an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov based on the Russian tale of the same name. I'm a bit hazy about the plot now except that it involves a young hero from Novgorod embarking on various journeys.
When I saw it performed at the Edinburgh Festival by the Kirov opera company, the audience broke into applause the moment the first curtain came up-the stage-set was so stunningly beautiful.
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(10/30/05 11:19 pm)
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Wagner? Maeterlinck?
Wagner used old tales, many of them.
Maeterlinck(sp?) may have invented his tale "The Blue Bird", I'm not sure.
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Judith Berman
Registered User
(10/31/05 10:03 am)
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Re: Oranges?
Prokofiev wrote something with this title, but I never knew of its fairy tale connection.
Ruslan and Lyudmilla is an opera by Glinka based on a narrative fairy tale poem by Pushkin (IIRC), check that last fact! And Moussorsgky's "Night on Bald/Bare Mountain"and his "Baba Yaga" from "Pictures at an Exhibition" are based (via Hartmann's pictures) on Russian oral tradition, though neither are opera or ballet or the like. Would you count Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scherazade?"
Here's a page of Russian music based on *Russian* fairy tales, including
some operas I'd never heard of: clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~tales/music.html
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Mirjana1
Registered User
(10/31/05 10:19 am)
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Not just operas and ballets
What a wealth of information!
Yes, it doesn't have to be opera or ballet, any piece of classical music that is based on fairy tale will be mentioned.
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(11/1/05 11:51 pm)
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"The Love of the Three Oranges"
Here's an Italian tale called "The Love of the Three Oranges."
www.surlalunefairytales.c...anges.html
I'm pretty sure some opera or ballet or such was made with a similar title.
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Judith Berman
Registered User
(11/2/05 1:56 pm)
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Re: "The Love of the Three Oranges"
Right, it's Prokofiev.
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