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The Paris Opéra ballet / Ivor Guest.
- Title
- The Paris Opéra ballet / Ivor Guest.
- Author
- Guest, Ivor, 1920-2018.
- Publication
- Alton, Hampshire : Dance Books, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV1786.O53 G84 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 150 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its foundation by Louis XIV in 1669.
- Subjects
- Note
- Appendix includes lists of: ballets produced at the Paris Opéra; principal dancers of the Opéra; guest artists with the Ballet of the Opéra; and, ballets performed at the Opéra more than 100 times.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The cradle of the classical dance -- The virtuosi of Rococo -- Noverre -- The dominance of the Gardels -- The Romantic heyday -- Romanticism in decline -- The decadence -- A time of transition -- The Lifar years -- A new strategy emerges -- Nureyev and after -- List of ballets produced at the Paris Opéra -- Principal dancers (étoiles) of the Opéra -- Guest artistes with the Ballet of the Opéra -- Ballets performed at the Opéra more than 100 times.
- ISBN
- 1852731095
- 9781852731090
- OCLC
- 69845933
- SCSB-10255599
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library