The Georgia Ballet’s Coppélia

Coppélia is a comic ballet telling the story of an inventor Dr. Coppélius , who has made a life-size dancing doll. It is so lifelike that Frantz, a village youth, becomes infatuated with it and sets aside his true heart’s desire, Swanilda. She shows him his folly by dressing as the doll, pretending to make it come to life and ultimately saving him from an untimely end at the hands of the inventor.