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Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes | Bel Air BAC041

Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes

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Label: Bel Air

Cat No: BAC041

Barcode: 3760115300415

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 27th July 2009

Contents

Artists

Mariinsky Orchestra And Ballet

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Works

Stravinsky, Igor

The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

Artists

Mariinsky Orchestra And Ballet

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

About

STRAVINSKY AND THE BALLETS RUSSES
The Firebird & Rite of Spring

Mariinsky Orchestra & Ballet / Valery Gergiev

The Firebird:
Choreography & libretto: Michel Fokine (1910) reconstruction Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set & costume design: Anna & Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches by Alexander Golovin, Léon Bakst & Michel Fokine

Ekaterina Kondaurova (Firebird); Ilya Kuznetsov (Ivan Tsarevich); Marianna Pavlova (The Princess);
Vladimir Ponomarev (Kachtcheï the Immortal)

The Rite of Spring:
Choreography after Vaslav Nijinsky (1913)
Scene plan: Igor Stravinsky & Nicholas Roerich, reconstructed and staged by Millicent Hodson
Set and costume design: Nicholas Roerich, reconstructed and supervised by Kenneth Archer
Lighting:Vladimir Lukin

Alexandra Iosifidi (The Chosen One); Elena Bazhenova (300-Year-Old Woman); Vladimir Ponomarev (Shaman)

Today it is difficult to imagine the impact on audiences at the beginning of the 20th century of Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) and his Ballets Russes. In celebration of the debut of the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, this wonderful Stravinsky evening at the Mariinsky Theatre showcases the original Nijinsky version of The Rite of Spring for the first time on DVD along with The Firebird, both conducted by Valery Gergiev. Thanks to the relentless work of Millicent Hodson, Nijinsky's original choreography has now been recreated, performed by the lead dancers and Ballet Company of the Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre conducted by Valery Geriev, known the world over for his interpretation of Stravinsky's works.

Format: 16/9 NTSC, PCM stereo / Dolby digital 5.1

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