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COPPÉLIA
Léo Delibes
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Léo Delibes
COPPÉLIA
Lyon, 1994

Soloists: 
Francoise Jouillié (Swanilda), Josu Zabala (Franz), Nerses Boyadjian (Coppélius), maria Brown (Coppélia)
Orchestra, Chorus: 
Dancers of the Lyon National Opera Ballet, Lyon National Opera Orchestra
Conductor: 
Kent Nagano
Director: 
Thomas Grimm
Choreographer: 
Maguy Marin
Location: 
Lyon

Léo Delibes was 30 years old when he achieved his critical breakthrough in France’s musical metropolis and created his classic Coppélia. The scenery for this fairy-tale piece was designed by Charles Nuitter, and the story was taken from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann (The Sandman). In 1994 the Opéra National de Lyon performed Léo Delibes’s ballet Coppélia under the choreography of Maguy Marin. This special video production by legend Thomas Grimm was fi lmed on location in Lyon and in the studio. Star conductor Kent Nagano directs the orchestra of the Lyon National Opera.
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