La Sylphide

La Sylphide — Plot

The light, airy image of the fairy-tale Sylph captured James' heart. And the witch's gloomy predictions that James and Effie's wedding will be upset are coming true. The hero leaves home with only one desire - to catch up with his dream. James finds himself in a magical forest. The witch and her assistants are cooking a sinister potion in a cauldron. She takes out a light scarf from the infernal boiling mixture. But in its changeable lightness, it conceals doom... Staged by the Leningrad State Academic Maly Opera and Ballet Theater.

• Release date
• December 25, 1978
• Runtime
• 74 min
• Genres
• Music, Fantasy
• Director
• Elena Macheret

La Sylphide — Cast

Tatiana Fesenko Sylph

A

Anatoly Sidorov James

A

Aleksandra Malgina Madge

A

Anna Malysheva Effie

P

Pavel Stalinsky Gyrn

O

Olga Dobrokhotova Narrator