Sylvia (ballet) - List of Productions

List of Productions

Premiere Ballet company Choreographer Original leads Notes Source
June 14, 1876 Paris Opera Ballet Mérante Rita Sangalli World premiere
1892 Paris Opera Ballet Mérante Rosita Mauri Sets lost in a fire after 2 years
December 15, 1901 Imperial Ballet Ivanov; Gerdt; Legat Olga Preobrajenska Prompted Diaghilev's emigration from Russia.
1911 Liverpool Empire Theatre Wilhelm Unknown None
December 19, 1919 Paris Opera Ballet Staats Carlotta Zambelli None
1941 Paris Opera Ballet Lifar Susanne Lorcia; Solange Schwarz None
December 1, 1950 New York City Ballet Balanchine Maria Tallchief; Nicholas Magallanes 12-minute version
September 3, 1952 Royal Ballet Ashton Margot Fonteyn; Michael Somes Best-known production
August 20, 1964 American Ballet Theatre Balanchine Sonia Arova; Royes Fernandez Reproduction of 1950. First showing in US.
June 9, 1965 Royal Ballet touring section Ashton Margot Fonteyn; Attilio Labis Abridged third act and new variation for Aminta
December 18, 1967 Royal Ballet Ashton with some alterations Nadia Nerina; Gary Sherwood One act
1979 Paris Opera Ballet; Central Ballet of China Darsonval Noella Pontois; Jean-Yves Lormeau; Cyril Atanasoff None
1993 Birmingham Royal Ballet Bintley Miyako Yoshida None
1997 Paris Opera Ballet Neumeier Aurelie Dupont; Manuel Legris This production was subtitled, Three Choreographic Poems on a Mythical Theme and made almost no use of Barbier's plot. It was subsequently also presented by the Hamburg Ballet.
2004 The Royal Ballet Ashton Darcey Bussell, Zenaida Yanowsky or Marianela Nunez
April 30, 2004 San Francisco Ballet Morris Yuan Yuan Tan, Yuri Possokhov
June 4, 2005 American Ballet Theatre Ashton Paloma Herrera; Angel Corella only 2 acts

This list mentions only full-length or otherwise significant productions; however, there have been many performances of short excerpts, especially in London.

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