La Chauve-Souris is a ballet created in 1979 by Roland Petit for his company of Ballets de Marseille. The first took place at the Monte-Carlo opera house. This is an adaptation of the famous operetta Die Fledermaus by the son of Johann Strauss .
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La Chauve-Souris is a ballet created in 1979 by Roland Petit for his company of Ballets de Marseille. The first took place at the Monte-Carlo opera house. This is an adaptation of the famous operetta Die Fledermaus by the son of Johann Strauss .
Roland Petit's Die Fledermaus, La Chauve-souris, was originally created for the Ballet National de Marseille in 1979 with Petit's wife Zizi Jeanmaire partnered by Denis Ganio and Luigi Bonino as the mastermind of the nocturnal escapades. The action was transferred from the operettas Vienna to the Paris of Vaudeville theatre, which was the original source of Johann Strausss celebrated operetta.
This ballet was recorded in 2003 in Milan at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi by the corps de ballet and the orchestra of La Scala in Milan. Directed by Luigi Bonino, Petit's assistant of many years, who also dances the role of Ulrich, it features two more dancing stars from the Petit school in the principal roles: Massimo Murru, the male star dancer of La Scala's company, for whom Petit had written several ballets and Alessandra Ferri, who counts among the finest ballerinas of today. Awarded with the coveted title of Prima Ballerina Assoluta at La Scala, she was once described by Roland Petit as the only rightful successor to legendary Zizi Jeanmaire.
Structure of the ballet:
1. Opening
Act l.
In the apartment
2 preparations for dinner
3 Johann's entrance
4 Ulrich: a friend of the family
5 price
6 Scene - No two
In the bedroom
7 Johann transforms into a bat and flies away
A faithful friend
8 Bella calls Ulrich
9 Pas de deux
10 Ulrich's advice
A man is a man
11 Dance of the waiters
12 Arrival of the guests and Johann
13 Variation: Johann
14 Bella's Entrance
15 Variation: Beautiful
16 Johann tries to seduce Bella
Act 2
17 Entr'acte
At the masquerade ball
18 Johann continues his attempt at seduction
19 Csardas
20 Variation: Beautiful
21 dances
22 The Bat and Bella
23 Johann is arrested - Waltz
24 Interlude
Johann loses his wings
25 In prison
26 Johann's release
27 No two
Go back to the apartment
28 Bella returns
29 The slippers
30 Final Waltz
