Delibes: Coppélia

About Delibes: Coppélia

This interpretation of Coppélia is set in a cybernetic laboratory specialised in artificial intelligence, where Doctor Coppélius is attempting to create a female android that moves and acts like a human. Against a backdrop of futuristic sets the Víctor Ullate Ballet clothes this classic in a new, bouncy and colourful fairytale wardrobe.

Delibes: Coppélia (2014) is a music film directed by Sonia Paramo. Sophie Cassegrain appears as Coppélia, Cristian Oliveri as Franz, Yester Mulens as Doctor Coppélius, and Zhengyja Yu as The Spectral Diva.

It runs 88 minutes and was released in April 2014.

Shelv files it under artificial intelligence (a.i.), ballet, and ballet performance. It streams on Stingray Classica Amazon Channel in the United States.

Hans Christian Andersen, Like Water for Chocolate, and Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes make useful companions to Delibes: Coppélia.