8 replies to this topic

[blistboy]

Where and how can one go about finding an English translation of Gautier's libretto for "Giselle"? And an english translation of Henrich Heine's essay "D'allemagne"?

[carbro]

Hi, blistboy, and welcome to Ballet Alert!

I can't help you, but perhaps one of our experts in the art's history can point you in a productive direction.

[doug]

See Marian Smith's book, Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle.

[Mel Johnson]

And if you're looking for the Heine, it's "De L'Allemagne", "About Germany", part of a two-volume anthology he wrote in 1835.

[rg]

i don't have my copy to hand, but i believe it's also included in THE BALLET CALLED 'GISELLE' by Cyril Beaumont - which has been reprinted more than once and which is also in paper, or at least was.

[cubanmiamiboy]

rg, on 21 January 2011 - 05:52 AM, said:

i don't have my copy to hand, but i believe it's also included in THE BALLET CALLED 'GISELLE' by Cyril Beaumont - which has been reprinted more than once and which is also in paper, or at least was.

It is...

[Mel Johnson]

A sidelight on Heine's work:  He wrote it in part to counterbalance a ca. 1812 book by Mme. de Staël (same title) which he found too old-fashioned and sentimental.  Don't get stuck looking for that earlier book.

[sandik]

Mel Johnson, on 21 January 2011 - 09:22 AM, said:

A sidelight on Heine's work:  He wrote it in part to counterbalance a ca. 1812 book by Mme. de Staël (same title) which he found too old-fashioned and sentimental.  Don't get stuck looking for that earlier book.

You know, it's such a treat to learn that there's another source out there, and that you *don't* have to dig it out!

[Mel Johnson]

The problem with the de Staël is that it contains nothing at all about Wilis!