The son of a distinguished Paris Conservatoire piano teacher, Adolphe Adam was born in Paris in 1803. He won popular success with his many compositions for the stage, much of his later work necessitated by the failure of a theatre venture in the revolution of 1848 and the consequent need to pay off heavy debts (which were cleared by the time of his death in 1856).
Stage Works
Adam wrote some 80 works for the stage. Of these the best known remains the ballet Giselle or Les Wilis, first staged in 1841 and based on a legend according to which the ghosts of unmarried girls return to seek revenge on the living. This was immediately followed by La Jolie Fille de Gand (‘The Pretty Girl from Ghent’), in which the hero...
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| ADAM, A.: Corsaire (Le) [Ballet] (Vienna State Ballet, 2016) | |
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ADAM, A.: Corsaire (Le) [Ballet] (Vienna State Ballet, 2016)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Dato, Davide -- Firenze, Alice -- Gabdullin, Robert -- Konovalova, Liudmila -- Kourlaev, Kirill -- Mair, Natascha -- Ovsyanikov, Valeriy -- Sosnovschi, Mihail -- Tonoli, Nina -- Vienna State Opera Ballet -- Vienna State Opera Orchestra -- Yakovleva, Maria -- Zeisel, Prisca
Label/Producer: Naxos |
| ADAM, A.: Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet, 2011) | |
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ADAM, A.: Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet, 2011)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Bolshoi Ballet -- Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra -- Klinichev, Pavel
Label/Producer: Bel Air Classiques |
| ADAM, A.: Giselle (Royal Ballet, 2006) | |
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ADAM, A.: Giselle (Royal Ballet, 2006)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Cojocaru, Alina -- Gruzin, Boris -- Harvey, Martin -- Kobborg, Johan -- Nunez, Marianela -- Royal Ballet, Covent Garden -- Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden
Label/Producer: Opus Arte |
| ADAM, A.: Giselle / CHOPIN, F.: Les Sylphides (Robinson, Rignold) | |
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ADAM, A.: Giselle / CHOPIN, F.: Les Sylphides (Robinson, Rignold)
Composers:
Adam, Adolphe -- Chopin, Fryderyk
Artists:
Beriosova, Svetlana -- Elvin, Violetta -- Fadeyechev, Nikolai -- Farron, Julia -- Field, John -- Hill, Margaret -- Karsavina, Tamara -- Larsen, Niels Bjorn -- Markova, Alicia -- Nerina, Nadia -- Ringold, Hugo -- Robinson, Eric -- Rodrigues, Alfred -- Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden -- Sokolova, Lydia -- Wright, Peter
Label/Producer: ICA Classics |
| ADAM, A.: Giselle [Ballet] (La Scala Ballet, 1996) | |
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ADAM, A.: Giselle [Ballet] (La Scala Ballet, 1996)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Connelly, Paul -- Ferri, Alessandra -- Milan La Scala Ballet -- Milan La Scala Orchestra -- Murru, Massimo -- Seabra, Bruno -- Vanadia, Maurizio
Label/Producer: Bel Air Classiques |
| ADAM, A.: Giselle [Ballet] (Royal Ballet, 2016) | |
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ADAM, A.: Giselle [Ballet] (Royal Ballet, 2016)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Arestis, Christina -- Avis, Gary -- Cowley, Olivia -- Gartside, Bennet -- McGorian, Elizabeth -- Mendizabal, Itziar -- Muntagirov, Vadim -- Nunez, Marianela -- Royal Ballet, Covent Garden -- Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden -- Stix-Brunell, Beatriz -- Wordsworth, Barry
Label/Producer: Opus Arte |
| ADAM, A.: Orfa [Ballet] (concert performance, 2022) (Sofia Philharmonic, Salvi) | |
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ADAM, A.: Orfa [Ballet] (concert performance, 2022) (Sofia Philharmonic, Salvi)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Hristova, Kalina -- Salvi, Dario -- Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra -- Trichkova, Vesela
Label/Producer: Naxos |
| ADAM, A.: Postillon de Lonjumeau (Le) [Opera] (Opera Comique, 2019) | |
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ADAM, A.: Postillon de Lonjumeau (Le) [Opera] (Opera Comique, 2019)
Composer:
Adam, Adolphe
Artists:
Accentus Chamber Choir -- Clement, Julien -- Ezziadi, Yannis -- Fau, Michel -- Kubla, Laurent -- Leguerinel, Franck -- Orchestre de l'Opera de Rouen Haute-Normandie -- Rouland, Sebastien -- Spyres, Michael -- Valiquette, Florie
Label/Producer: Naxos |
| CHRISTMAS CONCERT IN STRASBOURG (Equilbey) | |
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT IN STRASBOURG (Equilbey)
Composers:
Adam, Adolphe -- Bach, Johann Sebastian -- Bizet, Georges -- Buxtehude, Dieterich -- Franck, Cesar -- Gounod, Charles-Francois -- Gruber, Franz Xaver -- Handel, George Frideric -- Holmes, Augusta -- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -- Pachelbel, Johann -- Saint-Saens, Camille -- Traditional
Artists:
Accentus Chamber Choir -- Breslik, Pavol -- Concerto Koln -- Equilbey, Laurence -- Piau, Sandrine -- Saraf, Aurelie -- Stutzmann, Nathalie -- Weisser, Johannes -- Wieder-Atherton, Sonia
Label/Producer: Bel Air Classiques |
| HOLMES, A.-M.: Corsaire (Le) (English National Ballet, 2014) | |
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HOLMES, A.-M.: Corsaire (Le) (English National Ballet, 2014)
Composers:
Adam, Adolphe -- Delibes, Leo -- Drigo, Riccardo -- Fitinhof-Schell, Boris -- Gerber, Yuly -- Minkus, Ludwig -- Pugni, Cesare -- Zabel, Albert Heinrich
Artists:
Acosta, Yonah -- Cojocaru, Alina -- Coleman, Michael -- English National Ballet -- English National Ballet Philharmonic -- Gruzdyev, Dmitri -- Muntagirov, Vadim -- Souza, Junor -- Sutherland, Gavin -- Takahashi, Erina
Label/Producer: Opus Arte |
| TREASURES OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET | |
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TREASURES OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET
Composers:
Adam, Adolphe -- Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich -- Minkus, Ludwig -- Prokofiev, Sergey -- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Artists:
Bolshoi Ballet -- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra -- Fadeyechev, Nikolai -- Faier, Yuri -- Gridin, Anatoli -- Kirov Ballet -- Kopylov, Alexander -- Lavrovsky, Mikhail -- Liepa, Maris -- Maximova, Ekaterina -- Niyazi -- Osipenko, Alla -- Plisetskaya, Maya -- Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden -- Sizova, Alla -- Soloviev, Yuri -- Struchkova, Raisa -- Timofeyeva, Nina -- Ulanova, Galina -- Vasiliev, Alexander -- Zhuraitis, Algis
Label/Producer: ICA Classics |
