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''[[Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'' ("''[[Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone]]''") can refer to a '''play''' by Molière or to a '''ballet''' by Gluck and Calzabigi (1761), based on the legend of [[Don Juan]] and the play.  
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''[[Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'' ("''[[Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone]]''") can refer to a '''play''' by Molière or to a '''ballet''' by Gluck and Calzabigi (1761).  
  
 
''For details of Molière's play, go to '''[[Dom Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'''''   
 
''For details of Molière's play, go to '''[[Dom Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'''''   
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==The original ballet==
 
==The original ballet==
  
Based on Recounting Don Juan's descent into Hell after killing his inamorata's father in a duel, the . first performance was in Vienna, Austria on Saturday, 17 October 1761, at the Theater am Kärntnertor. Its innovation in the history of ballet, coming a year before Gluck's radical reform of opera seria with his Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), was its coherent narrative element, though the series of conventional divertissement dances in the second act lies within the well-established ballet tradition of an entr'acte effecting a pause in the story-telling. The ballet follows the legend of Don Juan and his descent into Hell after killing his inamorata's father in a duel.
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Drawing on the legend of [[Don Juan]] and the plays by De Molina and Molière, the ballet was an innovative piece, containing a coherent narrative telling of Don Juan's descent into Hell after killing his lover's father in a duel.
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First performed at the Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna, on 17 October 1761.  
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:45, 4 September 2019

Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre ("Dom Juan or The Feast of Stone") can refer to a play by Molière or to a ballet by Gluck and Calzabigi (1761).

For details of Molière's play, go to Dom Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre

The original ballet

Drawing on the legend of Don Juan and the plays by De Molina and Molière, the ballet was an innovative piece, containing a coherent narrative telling of Don Juan's descent into Hell after killing his lover's father in a duel.

First performed at the Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna, on 17 October 1761.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town by the Le Roy-Duret company in 1866. Described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a version of Gluck and Calzabigi's Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre. Performances took place on 20 September (with Jocrisse the Juggler by D'Ennery and Bresil); 22 September (with The Queen of the Abruzzi by and Little Sentinel by); 25 September (with Jocrisse the Juggler) and 27 September ((with Retribution by ).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.212-215

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