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DVD VIDEO Pas
de Deux Bruhn, Erik Loudières,
Monique Malakhov, Vladimir Maximova, Ekaterina Tallchief, Maria Stone Flower
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Carmen
Suite Ballet (Shchedrin) Maya Plisetskaya
always dreamed of dancing the role of Carmen and had approached
Shostokovich for a score. He demurred out of respect for Bizet’s
celebrated opera. It was eventually Plisetskaya’s husband
Rodion Shchedrin who agreed to provide the music after seeing some
of the initial rehearsals with his wife and the choreographer Alberto
Alonso. His Carmen Suite Ballet, based on Bizet, was a
perfect complement to Alonso’s choreography and, in its theatricality,
a showcase for Plisetskaya’s considerable dramatic gifts.
Plisetskaya's Don Jose is the brilliant dramatic dancer, Nicolai
Fadeyechv. Sergei Radchenko dances the role of the Bullfighter.
The Carmen Suite Ballet, one of the darkest settings of
Mérimée’s tragic story, deeply symbolic and
overtly sensual, premiered at the Bolshoi Ballet on April 20, 1967.
Bonus segments feature Plisetskaya in performances of The Dying
Swan, Raymonda Variations, and Bach Prelude. |
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