Léo Delibes: Sylvia - Ballet

Date and Time: Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 6:30pm

Entry: Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

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Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India

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Area: Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description: SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS 

Curated and Introduced by Sunit Tandon

BALLET

Léo Delibes: Sylvia

Ballet in three acts

(94 min; 2005; dvd)

From The Royal Ballet, London, with Darcey Bussell (Sylvia); Roberto Bolle (Aminta); Thiago Soares (Orion); Martin Harvey (Eros); Mara Galeazzi (Diana); etc.

Choreography: Frederick Ashton

Production Realization and Staging: Christopher Newton

Original Designs: Robin Ironside, Christopher Ironside

Additional Designs: Peter Farmer

Stage Lighting: Mark Jonathan

Directed for the Screen by: Ross MacGibbon

Orchestra of The Royal Opera House

Assistant Concert Master: Melissa Forshaw

Conductor: Graham Bond

Sylvia is a mythological ballet about a nymph devoted to Diana (goddess of the hunt) who falls in love with the shepherd Aminta after being shot by Eros's arrow. She is kidnapped by the evil hunter Orion, but eventually escapes with help from Eros to reunite with Aminta.

Delibes’ brilliant score is justly admired, not least by Tchaikovsky, who enthused, “It is the first ballet in which the music constitutes not just the main but the only interest.”

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