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''La fille mal gardée'' (English: ''The Wayward Daughter'', literal translation: "The Poorly Guarded Girl"), Frederick Ashton's Royal Ballet production, began in 1959 when British choreographer Frederick Ashton created a new version of ''La fille mal gardée'' for the Royal Ballet of London. This production premiered on 28 January 1960,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Royal Opera House Collections on Line )〕 with Nadia Nerina as Lise, David Blair as Colas, Stanley Holden as the Widow Simone, and Alexander Grant as Alain. Since its inception Ashton's staging has become a celebrated classic of the ballet repertory. == Background == Originally Ashton intended to use the 1864 score of Peter Ludwig Hertel, as it had been used for nearly every revival of the ballet since the late 19th century, but after close inspection of this music Ashton decided it would not suit his plans for the revival. At the suggestion of the ballet historian and musicologist Ivor Guest, Ashton studied the 1828 score by Ferdinand Hérold, and found the light, simple music more suitable for his conception. Ashton then commissioned the Royal Opera House's composer and conductor John Lanchbery to orchestrate and edit Hérold's score. After becoming frustrated with the under-developed nature of this music, Ashton and Lanchbery decided that Hérold's music would be better used as a foundation for an entirely new score, for which Lanchbery would compose a few new numbers. They went even further by incorporating passages of the original ''pastiche'' music from the premiere of 1789 into the score, as well as one number from Hertel's score which was utilised for the famous ''Clog Dance''. Ashton was disappointed that Hérold's score contained no suitable ''Grand pas'', and for a while considered using the well-known ''La Fille mal gardée pas de deux''. Ivor Guest found a violin reduction of the ''pas de deux'' that Fanny Elssler had arranged for her performance in the ballet in 1837, tucked away in an old box of music at the Paris Opéra. This number is now known as ''The Fanny Elssler pas de deux''. Ashton created what is considered to be among his most masterful choreography for his new version of ''La fille mal gardée''. He resurrected the ''Pas de ruban'' for Lise and Colas, in which the lovers perform a charming ''pas'' with intricate tricks using a pink satin ribbon. Ashton took this idea to an entirely new level with the ''Fanny Elssler pas de deux'', devising a spectacular ''Grand adage'' for Lise, Colas and eight women with eight ribbons. Ashton also included Petipa's original mimed sequence known as ''When I'm Married'', a passage that was performed by all of the great ballerinas of old when they danced the role of Lise. He was taught this passage by Tamara Karsavina, former Ballerina of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and the Original Ballet Russe. She had in turn learned it from her teacher Pavel Gerdt, once the Imperial Ballet's leading male dancer who partnered all of the great ballerinas of the late 19th century and early 20th century in the role of Lise, including Virginia Zucchi. Robert Helpmann was originally cast in the role of Widow Simone, spending considerable time in rehearsal before the pressure of film work in the US compelled him to stand down. To inspire Lanchbery to write music for the ''Clog Dance'', Ashton took the composer to a performance of Lancashire clog dancers. This dance is performed in the ballet by Lise's mother, the Widow Simone. Lanchbery decided to use the leitmotiv for the Widow Simone from Hertel's score, the only music by Hertel that Lanchbery's score contains. Ashton fashioned a humorous number from this music for Simone and four ballerinas, at the beginning of which Lise tempts her mother with a pair of clogs, which she cannot resist. She puts them on and whirls into one of Ashton's most celebrated numbers, which also features the dancers using the clogs to perform ''sur la pointe'' (on their toes). Ashton's 1960 version of ''La fille mal gardée'' has been staged for many companies throughout the world and has become the more or less "traditional" version, replacing the productions derived from the Petipa/Ivanov/Gorsky versions danced in Russia to the music of Hertel. Among such companies are the Bolshoi Ballet (2002), and American Ballet Theatre (2004). In spite of this, the famous ''La Fille mal gardée pas de deux'', which is taken from the Petipa/Ivanov/Gorsky versions of the ballet, is still performed with regularity as a gala excerpt, and is often used by various young dancer on the ballet competition circuit. After Ashton's death, the rights to his staging of ''La fille mal gardée'' passed to Alexander Grant, the original performer of the role of Alain. In the 1981 version, the role of Alain was performed by Alexander's brother Garry Grant. In 2007, the Paris Opéra Ballet invited Alexander Grant to supervise a staging of Ashton's version, which premiered at the Palais Garnier on 22 July 2007 with Dorothée Gilbert as Lise, Nicolas Le Riche as Colas, Simon Valastro as Alain, Stéphane Phavorin as the Widow Simone and Gil Isoart as the Piper. As part of a contract between the BBC and the Royal Ballet signed in 1961, ''La fille mal gardée'' was one of nine ballets filmed for television, and was broadcast over Christmas 1962 with the original cast.〔The Royal Ballet on BBC TV. ''About the House'', November 1962, p29.〕 In 1984, Ashton's production was filmed at Covent Garden, with Lesley Collier as Lise, and Michael Coleman as Colas. A later recording, featuring Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta, was made in 2005. Both recordings are available on DVD. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La fille mal gardée (Ashton)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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