Emma Bovary
A ballet based on Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary focused on the character of Emma Bovary whose romantic ideas of the world are at odds with reality - to catastrophic effect.
Date:
2023
Company:
National Ballet of Canada
Choreographer:
Helen Pickett
Dramaturg:
James Bonas
Composer - Music and Sound:
Peter Salem
Designer:
Michael Giafrancesco
Lighting:
Bonnie Beecher
Animations:
Grégoire Pont
Projection:
Anouar Brissel
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Reviews:
Emma’s splendour, joy, self-centredness, cruelty and despair are captured by Peter Salem’s magnificent composition, as interpreted brilliantly by the National Arts Centre Orchestra.
Peter Salem’s original score is excellent. He is able to capture mood, and the motif of a ticking clock works well to express tedium. His swirling, romantic ballroom music, his menacing Lheureux sections, and his rapturous duet are wonderful. As they say, like hand to glove, score to story.