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    The Fairy Doll ballet was premiered in 1888 and was inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman's 1815 story "The Sandman" about a mechanical doll coming to life. The ballet was composed by Austrian Josef Bayer and choreographed by Joseph Hassreiter, with Camilla Pagliero dancing the lead role of the Fairy Doll. The story is about a toy shop that comes to life at midnight with dolls dancing, including the Fairy Doll, until the shopkeeper discovers everything in order.

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    The Fairy Doll ballet was premiered in 1888 and was inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman's 1815 story "The Sandman" about a mechanical doll coming to life. The ballet was composed by Austrian Josef Bayer and choreographed by Joseph Hassreiter, with Camilla Pagliero dancing the lead role of the Fairy Doll. The story is about a toy shop that comes to life at midnight with dolls dancing, including the Fairy Doll, until the shopkeeper discovers everything in order.

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    The Fairy Doll ballet was premiered in 1888 and was inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman's 1815 story "The Sandman" about a mechanical doll coming to life. The ballet was composed by Austrian Josef Bayer and choreographed by Joseph Hassreiter, with Camilla Pagliero dancing the lead role of the Fairy Doll. The story is about a toy shop that comes to life at midnight with dolls dancing, including the Fairy Doll, until the shopkeeper discovers everything in order.

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    The Fairy Doll ballet was premiered in 1888 and was inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman's 1815 story "The Sandman" about a mechanical doll coming to life. The ballet was composed by Austrian Josef Bayer and choreographed by Joseph Hassreiter, with Camilla Pagliero dancing the lead role of the Fairy Doll. The story is about a toy shop that comes to life at midnight with dolls dancing, including the Fairy Doll, until the shopkeeper discovers everything in order.

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    THE FAIRY DOLL

    The Fairy Doll, or Die Puppenfee, was premiered at the Vienna Court Opera on
    the 4th October 1888, a ballet which owes its inspiration to E.T.A Hoffman’s
    1815 story the Sandman in which a mechanical doll comes to life.

    Original designs from the 1888 production

    The story also inspired Offenbach to compose the Tales of Hoffman and Delibes to write the
    score for Coppélia. The Fairy Doll was in turn an inspiration for La Boutique Fantasque.
    Composed by the Austrian Josef Bayer the score has a regimental music flavour and was to
    prove the greatest ballet success for the Vienna Court Opera ever; still being performed to this
    day.
    It was choreographed by the Court ballet master Joseph Hassreiter and Camilla Pagliero was
    the first to dance the role of the Fairy Doll.
    Synopsis

    The Curtain rises on a toy shop where the proprietor is mending a doll’s head, various
    customers and trades people arrive. An English family, a Scottish family a child with a broken
    doll, they are shown Ma-Ma- Pa-Pa dolls, Chinese and Spanish dolls as well as Tyroleans,
    harlequins, drumming bunny dolls and Finally the Fairy Doll.
    The English family are enraptured by the Fairy Doll and place an order to buy her and arrange
    for her to be delivered. They leave and the shop closes for the night.
    Anna Pavlova backstage as the Fairy Doll

    As midnight strikes the shop magically comes alive and all the dolls with pulcinellas playing
    tiny cymbals dance the Fairy Doll waltz followed by a triumphal march with massed battalions
    of drumming bunny dolls and all join in a sparkling gallop gathering around the Fairy Doll.
    Disturbed by the noise the shopkeeper now rushes in but finds everything in order, he stands
    puzzled as the ballet ends with a tableau of dolls around their fairy queen.
    Anna Pavlova danced her version of the Fairy Doll on her worldwide tours in the 1920’s adding
    music from Drigo’s ‘Harlequinade’ and the famous ‘Serenade pas de trios’; Diaghilev in
    competition commissioned Leonide Massine to create ‘La Boutique Fantasque’ to an arranged
    score of Rossini pieces.
    Richard Slaughter recreated the Pavlova version for Ballet Creations of London’s ‘A Portrait of
    Pavlova’ in 1989 and staged the entire Fairy Doll Ballet for the Bournemouth Ballet Club in
    1992.

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