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6 unusual facts about Coppélia


Chilean National Ballet

A Ballet Corps was eventually added, and under the name the Chilean National Ballet, the company debuted in 1945 with a production of Leo Delibe's Coppelia.

Coppélia

In episode 2 of the anime Coppelion Aoi stated that their unit was named after "Coppélia", saying that just like Coppélia, a beautiful life size doll created by Dr. Coppelius, they were living dolls created by genetic engineering.

This field of entertainment has been under-documented, but a recent survey of the field is contained in The Mechanical Turk by Tom Standage (2002).

The part of Frantz was danced en travesti by Eugénie Fiocre, a convention that pleased the male members of the Jockey-Club de Paris and was retained in Paris until after World War II.

Dr. Coppelius

Coppelius (or Fantástico mundo del doctor Coppelius, El) is a 1966 Spanish English-language comedy film based on the ballet Coppelius directed by Ted Kneeland and featuring Walter Slezak and Claudia Corday.

Jacques Kupfermann

He had also, in the 1950s, designed ballet sets for the Princeton ballet – notably for Coppélia and Under Milk Wood, though only a few photographs survive of these.


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Anastasia Goryacheva

In 2009 she player a role of Swanilda in Coppélia and a year prior to it participated in the Alexei Ratmansky's productions such as Flames of Paris where she played a role of Adeline and Zina in the Limpid Stream.

John Selya

He joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1988, where he danced roles such as Birbanto and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Lead Gypsy in Don Quixote, Head Fakir in La Bayadere, Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia, and an Ugly Stepsister in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella.

Louisville Ballet

The Ballet also presents several full length ballets each year including Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Giselle and Don Quixote.

Michele Jimenez

She danced main roles in many ballets like:Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Coppelia, Cinderella, Carmen, Don Giovanni, The Nutcracker and in many contemporary pieces from choreographers such as George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Krzysztof Pastor, Septime Webre, Wayne Eagling, Ted Brandsen, Alexei Ratmansky, Mark Morris and Christopher Wheeldon.


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