Famous Ballet “La Fille mal gardee” May 13, 2010
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Victor Louis envisioned the theater in Bordeaux as a temple of the Arts and Light, with a neo-classical facade endowed with a portico of 12 Corinthian style colossal columns. 12 statues were supported by the columns and they represented the nine muses and three goddesses.
At Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux Jean Dauberval staged his most famous ballet Le Ballet de la paille. We know it today under the name of La Fille mal gardèe. Throughout centuries this ballet is one the most enduring and popular works with ballet companies throughout the world.
Dauberval’s ballet had such a wild public success that he traveled to London staged it there. This is where Dauberval changed the title of the ballet to La Fille mal gardée, which remains the title of the work today.
For the first performance in London in 1791 Dauberval’s wife Mme. Théodore reprised her role as Lise. And Dauberval’s student, Charles Didelot, known to us as the Father of Russian Ballet, danced Colas.
Jean Dauberval lived to see the times of the glittering French Empire of Napoleon and died surrounded by his family and students in 1806.
