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SYLVIA GROWS UP.(Mark Morris creates new production of 'Sylvia' for San Francisco Ballet)
The great surprise, and much of the beauty, of Mark Morris's new "Sylvia," for San Francisco Ballet--it opened late last month at the War Memorial Opera House--is that Morris took the ballet's story completely seriously. "Sylvia," based on a sixteenth-century verse play, "Aminta," by Torquato Tasso, is a pastoral. The heroine, Sylvia, is a huntress nymph pledged to the goddess Diana--that is, to chastity. But the virtuous shepherd Aminta fancies her. To help him, Eros, or Cupid, shoots her with one of his magic arrows, causing her to fall in love with the boy. There's a problem, though: shortly beforehand, Sylvia, annoyed by Aminta's attentions, shot him with one of her ...
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