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Minkus-Duato - La Bayadere (DVD) | Bel Air BAC182

Minkus-Duato - La Bayadere (DVD)

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Label: Bel Air

Cat No: BAC182

Barcode: 3760115301825

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 13th November 2020

Contents

Artists

Angelina Vorontsova
Victor Lebedev
Sergey Strelkov
Andrey Kasyanenko
Andrea Lassakova
Nikita Tchetverikov
The Mikhailovsky Ballet
Orchestra of the Mikhailovsky Ballet

Conductor

Pavel Sorokin

Works

Minkus, Ludwig

La Bayadere

Artists

Angelina Vorontsova
Victor Lebedev
Sergey Strelkov
Andrey Kasyanenko
Andrea Lassakova
Nikita Tchetverikov
The Mikhailovsky Ballet
Orchestra of the Mikhailovsky Ballet

Conductor

Pavel Sorokin

About

The purity of classical dance meets the opulant exoticism of the Maharajas’ India in this 150-year-old ballet, glorified by Nacho Duato for the Mikhailovsky Ballet.

Of Ancient India, composer Ludwig Minkus made in his La Bayadère the shiny background of the tragic love story between a priestess and a warrior, unable to get together in this world or in the next. For this new production with the Mikhailovsky Ballet, of which he is the artistic director, Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato created a new version extremely respectful of Marius Petipa’s original, preserving the traditional synopsis and the great coups de théâtre of the libretto, and keeping the original choreography for the most famous scenes. But at the same time, he liberates the ballet from the weight of its own anachronism, removes the episodes of pointless pantomime, and relocates it in an extravagant, lavish and colourful set.

Before working on La Bayadère, Duato had already tackled some of the great classics of the Russian classical ballet school: his original versions of Sleeping Beauty (BAC131/BAC431) and The Nutcracker, both commissionned by the Mikhailovsky, have since then toured in the whole world and were met with tremendous success – from Milan and Berlin to Novossibirsk. For this new project, he surrounds himself with the excellent principals Angelina Vorontsova and Victor Lebedev, but also with Andrea Laššáková, outstanding in the role of Gamzatti.

Exclusive extras: interviews with Vladimir Kekhman (head of the Mikhailovsky Theater) and Nacho Duato

Booklet: 20 pages
Duration: 98’
Bonus: 12’
Sound: PCM 2.0 & Dolby Digital 5.1

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