I have to tell you in what manner she has rendered the fable of Pygmalion, and that of Ariadne and Bacchus; and of the applause with which these two ballets of her composition have been received by the Court of England.
The titles of five newly rehearsed ballets are given in the report from which the above particulars are taken, and which may be found in the theatrical calendar for 1784.
It was then adopted in the colleges at prize distributions and other occasions, when the ballets of Lully and Quinault were commonly performed.
In aerial ballets and in the appearances of angels, etc.
The windlasses are used to raise heavy weights suspended from the gridiron, and are of the greatest possible use in aerial ballets and other theatrical performances.
In Japanese ballets a large fan is sometimes used in place of a drop curtain, and in some of the Paris cafes a fan is also used, as this enables them to make evasion of the law relating to theatrical performances.
It is delightful to greet =Les Comedies-Ballets de Moliere=, edited by M.
Pellisson (Hachette),--being the Ballets written for the Court of Louis XIV.
When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin.
They rehearsed their ballets every morning in a large room that did duty as a theatre.
Their ballets always began with a musical prelude performed upon brass and bamboo instruments.
This movement is as good as most conventional pastoral ballets that are composed by musicians of some talent.
He was particularly fascinated by ballets of the fantastic or fairy order, and gradually came to value more and more the art of dancing.
Hitherto the ballets had dealt exclusively with mythological subjects, and nothing of the Italian element comprised in modern pantomime had been apparent in our stage performances.
In 1809, the Lyceum or English Opera House, which for some years before had been licensed for music and dancing, was licensed for "musical dramatic entertainments and balletsof action.
In this way Mouret, her musical director, who also composed several operas and ballets for the Academy, suffered severe loss; eventually he went mad and died in the lunatic asylum at Chârenton.
Had he wings like the Cupids in the ballets at the Louvre?
It is certain that they took the earliest opportunity of deriving profit from him; and before he was three years old, Edmund Kean figured as a Cupid in one of Noverre's ballets at the Opera House.
Raphael was more to his taste than Michaelangelo, as might have been expected from one who went wild over the ballets Viganò.
He ill concealed his own in the presence of pictorial master-pieces or the ballets of Viganò.
I knew that the ballets were to come at the end of the Festspiele, when the orchestras of the two theatres would be worn out by their heavy work throughout the festival season.
While I was in Madrid, Diaghileff was producing his ballets at the Royal Theatre, where L'Oiseau de Feu and Petroushka were among those given, and where I had the honor of being presented to the King and the two Queens.
Side by side with forgotten works, Diaghileff had wanted to present in that season the music of composers belonging to the young French school, by giving ballets which he had commissioned from them.
The ballets were given in costume, but against a black backcloth, the scenery being then in Paris.
The admirably successful choreography of these three ballets came from Bronislava Nijinska's inexhaustible talent.
Thus, a few years later we see, one after the other, such composers as Glazounov, Arensky, and Tcherepnin composing ballets for the Imperial Theatres.
Readable history of the art from antiquity to latter 19th century; many descriptions of early ballets and masques are quoted from Ménestrier, De l’Estoile and others.
Great mimetic ballets memorialised great events; simple rustic dances celebrated the gathering of the crops and the coming of the flowers.
For this reason, perhaps, both opera ballets and academies of Europe outside of Russia have long lost the custom of staging pantomimes of greater consequence than operatic divertissement.
The journal of L’Estoile mentions the production of eighty new balletsduring the twenty-one years of the reign.
Women’s parts in the ballets were played by men at least frequently; whether the reverse was a conspicuous exception is also uncertain.
Not finding itself expected to take rank with the ballets of other great opera organisations, the Metropolitan’s department of dancing has gone its comfortable gait.
Apis, the sacred black bull, was honoured in life by dances of adoration, in death by ballets of mourning.
Book includes extensive list of ballets produced in France up to year of its publication.
Since the Metropolitan engagement, Russian ballets have seldom been seen in America except under misrepresentative conditions.
From the graduates of the Academy are recruited the ballets of the two Imperial Opera Houses: the Marianski Theatre in St. Petersburg, and the Opera House in Moscow.
Before the opera was established in France, the ancient ballets formed the chief amusement of the court, and Louis the Fourteenth himself joined with the performers.
They plotted comedies and even fantastical balletsfrom their subjects.
I should like to hear operas and see ballets in Paris," said Rosabella; "but I wish we could come back here before long.
Cannabich was not slow to recognise his extraordinary talent, nor to make use of it on occasion, as when Wolfgang made good clavier arrangements of his ballets for him.
Alexander himself, owing to his sensuous nature, was especially fond of it, and had comedies and ballets performed at all the family festivities in the Vatican.
Ballets similar to those which accompanied the Epidicus were given; men dressed in flesh-colored tights with torches in their hands, which diffused agreeable odors, danced fantastic figures, and engaged in a battle with a dragon.
But let us ask ourselves (in a spirit of love, as Mr. Chadband would say), what are the ballets of the Alhambra?
The ballets of the Alhambra are institutions in which a particular selected row of persons in pink go through an operation known as dancing.
The ballets of the Alhambra, and the fireworks of the Crystal Palace, and Mr. Chesterton's Daily News articles, have their place in life.
The king and his courtiers were accustomed to take parts in the ballets in those days, and Louis and his court took parts in the ballets of Moliere's construction.
She was in the greatest demand at Versailles, too, and danced in all of the finest ballets given for the king.
Madame Cheverny has danced in several ballets before the king, and has been to the masquerades, but neither of us is made to be a hanger-on of courts.
Balls, masques, concerts and ballets followed each other with dazzling swiftness.
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