Dairy Switzerland
Dairy Switzerland is a dramatic ballet in 2 acts of Antoine Titus and Frederic-Auguste Blache represented for the first with the Théâtre of the Door Saint Martin's day the September 25th 1823. The main roles are held by Pierre-Jean Aniel, Louise Pierson and Charles Mazurier.
The Almanach of the spectacles of 1824 writing that this ballet “ did not make the money which the author Mr. Titus hoped for. The Aniel dancer made his beginning there”.
A first version of this Ballet had been given in 1815 by Titus, but it did not have success. The joint version with Blache knew on the contrary a growing vogue, in particular thanks to the service of the young person Louise Pierson.
In 1831, Filippo Taglioni gives of it to a new version to the Opéra of Paris with his/her daughter Marie and Joseph Mazilier.
To Saint-Pétersbourg, Marius Petipa will give his version of it (under the title Lida or Dairy Switzerland ) the December 4th 1849 to the Théâtre Mariinsky, on a music of Cesare Pugni.
In 1980, Pierre Lacotte reconstitutes the version of Taglioni for the Ballet of Moscow.
This ballet constitutes the historical link between the badly kept Girl and Gisele : the girl mutine of pastoral becomes here one of the first romantic heroins .
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