The dramatic story of Lucile, a girl who has to pretend to be a boy on 29 January, 2013 in the National Theatre in Prague.
The short story Lucidor, which later on served as the theme for a ballet adaptation, was written back in 1910. Its author, the Austrian poet, novelist, dramatist and essayist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, also used the tale for his libretto to Richard Strauss’s opera Arabella, premiered in 1933. Hofmannsthal and Strauss created a number of works together and became pioneers of a new form of music theatre based on sophisticated librettos (Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Josephslegende).
The story depicts the dramatic fate of Lucile, a girl whose mother forces her to pretend to be a boy so as to obtain an inheritance. The attempt at concealing her own identity, sacrificing and denying her femininity, falls flat at the moment when the girl meets the love of her life. The name of the lead character itself can be considered a rather bitter gloss. In comparison with the traditionally romantic names of heroines, Lucidor (a compound of female and male names) sounds so bizarre as to appear as a cruel joke. The author, however, depicts the drama of a woman who is forced by circumstances to unbearable self-denial yet has the strength to escape so absurd a fate.
In his choreography, Yuri Vàmos has taken hold of the subject with the utmost concentration and thoroughly rendered the state of mind and spirit of the lead characters, splendidly fleshing them out through dance. Alexander Glazunov’s music combines paramount originality of expression and Slavonic melancholia with an energy and joie de vivre typical of modern Europe.
Source: National Theatre
National Theatre Brno Ballet Guest Performance In Prague - Lucidor and Arabella
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The dramatic story of Lucile, a girl who has to pretend to be a boy on 29 January, 2013 in the National Theatre in Prague.
The short story Lucidor, which later on served as the theme for a ballet adaptation, was written back in 1910. Its author, the Austrian poet, novelist, dramatist and essayist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, also used the tale for his libretto to Richard Strauss’s opera Arabella, premiered in 1933. Hofmannsthal and Strauss created a number of works together and became pioneers of a new form of music theatre based on sophisticated librettos (Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Josephslegende).
The story depicts the dramatic fate of Lucile, a girl whose mother forces her to pretend to be a boy so as to obtain an inheritance. The attempt at concealing her own identity, sacrificing and denying her femininity, falls flat at the moment when the girl meets the love of her life. The name of the lead character itself can be considered a rather bitter gloss. In comparison with the traditionally romantic names of heroines, Lucidor (a compound of female and male names) sounds so bizarre as to appear as a cruel joke. The author, however, depicts the drama of a woman who is forced by circumstances to unbearable self-denial yet has the strength to escape so absurd a fate.
In his choreography, Yuri Vàmos has taken hold of the subject with the utmost concentration and thoroughly rendered the state of mind and spirit of the lead characters, splendidly fleshing them out through dance. Alexander Glazunov’s music combines paramount originality of expression and Slavonic melancholia with an energy and joie de vivre typical of modern Europe.
Source: National Theatre
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