Daphnis et Chloé
1912 ballet by Maurice Ravel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daphnis et Chloé is a 1912 symphonie chorégraphique, or choreographic symphony, for orchestra and wordless chorus by Maurice Ravel. It is in three main sections, or parties, and a dozen scenes, most of them dances, and lasts just under an hour, making it the composer's longest work. In effect it is a ballet, and it was first presented as such. But it is more frequently given as a concert work, either complete or excerpted, vindicating Ravel's own description above.
Daphnis et Chloé | |
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Choreographer | Michel Fokine |
Music | Maurice Ravel |
Based on | Longus' Daphnis and Chloe |
Premiere | 8 June 1912 Théâtre du Châtelet Paris |
Original ballet company | Ballets Russes |
Characters | Daphnis, Chloé |
Design | Léon Bakst |
Setting | Ancient Greece |
Created for | Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina |
The dance scenario was adapted by choreographer Michel Fokine from a pastoral romance by the Greek writer Longus thought to date from the 2nd century AD, recounting the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé. Scott Goddard in 1926 published a commentary on the changes to the story Fokine had to apply in order to make the scenario workable.[1]