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SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- The Korean National Ballet will be performing new work La Fille mal gardee from June 8th till June 11th at the Haeoreum Grand Theater, National Theater of Korea.
This work, a comic ballet, is a version of The Royal Ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton. It is the first time for the Korean National Ballet to have prelude performance in Korea.
Park Seulki, Park Yeeun and Cho Yeonjae will be playing "Lise," the main character, while Heo Seomyeong, Park Jongsuk and Ha Jiseok will be playing her lover, "Colas,"
Bae Min-soon, who is strong in comedy, and Kim Myungkyu, who received a good response while acting "Gremio" in "The Taming of the Shrew" will be acting as "Simone," where a male dancer will have to play a woman role.
Ashton's version of " La Fille mal gardee" is based on some of the melodies from Rossini's operas including "The Barber of Seville" and "Cinderella," and is characterized by doubling the enjoyment by taking the melody of Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love" from Act 1, Scene 2 during Fanny Elsler Paddeau (two people dancing).
For this performance, Philip Ellis, who has served as the conductor of the Birmingham Royal Ballet in England since 1990, will be conducting the Korean National Symphony Orchestra.
The original work of "La Fille mal gardee" was created by the French choreographer Jean Dauberval and was premiered in Bordeaux on July 1, 1789, just before the French Revolution.
It is said that Dauberval was inspired by a painting of a daughter scolded by her mother in a small warehouse in the countryside and a young lover running away from them.
At the time of its premiere, "La Fille mal gardee" was evaluated as a work that realistically expressed the emotions of ordinary people in their daily lives, breaking away from the characters and backgrounds of nobles and the royal family, which was mainly seen in ballet performances.
While this work was handed down until the 19th century and was cut off since then, choreographer Frederick Ashton from The Royal Ballet made new choreographs and made it into a new work.
Since then, it has established itself as a major repertoire of The Royal Ballet.
“The Ashton version, which has never been performed in Korea and as one of the few comedy ballets, will give a pleasant laugh and add vitality to return to our daily lives,” said Kang Suejin, director of the National Ballet (also artistic director).
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Haemin Kim.)
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