Patricia Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 The Mariinsky Trust published the preliminary schedule for the Winter 2003 Festival: Friday, February 21 UNDINA (première) Lacotte/Puni Saturday, February 22 CINDERELLA Ratmansky/Prokofiev Sunday, February 23 LA BAYADÈRE (new production) Petipa/Minkus Monday, February 24 Guest performance by the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE Ashton/Harold Tuesday, February 25 AN EVENING OF GEORGE BALANCHINE BALLETS including: Prodigal Son, Apollo Wednesday, February 26 AN EVENING OF HISTORICAL BALLETS Thursday, February 27 PRINCESSA PIRLIPAT (world première) Simonov/Slonimsky Libretto and Design by Mikhail Chemiakin SOUNDS OF EMPTY PAGES Neumeier/Schnittke LE JEUNNE HOMME ET LA MORT Petit/Bach Scenario by Jean Cocteau Friday, February 28 MANON MacMillan/Massenet Saturday, March 1 SWAN LAKE Petipa/Tchaikovsky Sunday, March 2 INTERNATIONAL STARS GALA Link to comment
Kevin Ng Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Patricia, thanks for your early news of the programme of next year's Maryinsky Festival. I didn't realise that Pierre Lacotte will be staging Ondine for the Kirov. Link to comment
rg Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 i suspect that the staging given here as UNDINA is lacotte's 're-construction' of L'OMBRE from 1993. one NYPLibrary catalogue gives the information below. i believe this is the first time the work is being performed by the kirov: L'Ombre de Taglioni à Nancy. Danser. Paris. no. 112, juin 1993, p. 20. ill. Filippo Taglioni's 1839 ballet, L'Ombre, is revived by Pierre Lacotte for the Ballet de Nancy, with a score by Wilhelm Maurer. Link to comment
ina Posted August 28, 2002 Share Posted August 28, 2002 Let me try to reveal a bit the plans for the new "Ondine" through a brief glance on the history of the ballet. "Ondine" based on Pugni's score was staged by J.Perrot in 1843 in London for F.Cerito who contributed the choreography as well. In 1851 he mounted a new version of this ballet in St.Petersburg under the title " The Naiad and the Fisherman" with C.Grisi in the role of Ondine. " On July 11/23 of the same year, which was the name day of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, the Gala Performance was given at Peterhof in the open air. On this occasion the ballet was produced by Perrot on a specially-built platform, raised just above the surface of the water , in the lake by the Ozerky Pavilion. The naiads glided to the platform in boats shaped like shells. The natural scenery of the trees, with addition of a few tropical plants, made a charming setting. The weather was fine and a beautiful moon shone down upon the scene" (C.Beaumont. Complete Book of Ballets). In 1892 the ballet was recreated by M.Petipa, then in 1903 by Shyriaev. The latest staging in Russia took place in 1984 at Kirov and (a suite) at Bolshoi (a version by P.Gusev). According to Pierre Lacotte his staging will be both in the style of Perrot and Petipa. He does not claim the new ballet to be a reconstruction, since almost nothing remained of the original productions. That will be his own interpretation based on old books, documents and his knowledge of the old ballet styles. Luckily Pugni's score for Perrot's London production survived and was found in the archives. But it differs from the one used in St. Petersburg. Lacotte is going to combine the best pieces from both. He will also work all by himself on the design and costumes, as he already did in "Pharaoh's daughter", staged for Bolshoi in 2000, and it proved to be a spectacular work. Another remark to the program of the 3-d fest. As far as I know the Bolshoi planned to participate in it with Roland Petit ballets (Passacalia & Pikovaya Dama - La Dame de Pique), instead the program gives "La Fille Mal Gardee". Those who understand Russian are cordially invited to visit http://forum.balet.ru for the latest news from Bolshoi (and not only from there). Link to comment
Alexandra Posted August 28, 2002 Share Posted August 28, 2002 Thank you for that, Ina (and for your post on Gayaneh the other day). Since most of us, I'm afraid, don't read Russian, I hope you'll stop by and keep us up to date with what's going on in Russia when you have the time. There is a lot of interest here, I can assure you! Link to comment
Estelle Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 It seems that Pierre Lacotte is very busy with several companies since he left the direction of the Ballet de Nancy. (And what a pity that all the repertory he had built there has been totally forgotten...) I hope that we'll get some reviews of the performances of that festival, what a large repertory! Ina, thanks for the informations about "Undina". Do you have some information about "Princessa Pirlipat"? About the Bolshoi and Petit: "Passacaille" will be performed in october by the POB, if I remember correctly it hadn't been danced since its premiere about 7 years ago. I wonder if it is related to the fact that Petit staged it for the Bolshoi recently? I had seen the premiere, and in spite of the presence of Jose Martinez and Agnes Letestu (then only premiers danseurs or sujets), had found it somewhat boring. Link to comment
glebb Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 An early performance of 'Ondine' at Peterhof. Now there is something to daydream about! Link to comment
Kevin Ng Posted January 12, 2003 Share Posted January 12, 2003 Some of the guest artists who will appear in the Mariinsky Festival next month include Vladimir Malakhov, Manuel Legris, and Alina Cojocaru Link to comment
Marc Haegeman Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 [unofficially] It seems that the premiere of "Ondine" at the Mariinsky on Febr. 21 has been cancelled. Some say it is postponed till May or June, others till next year, though nothing is definite yet. More details hopefully later. Link to comment
ina Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 Yes, these sad rumours seem to be very realistic, since they come to Moscow from different sources, all of them reliable. The other sad news (again not official) about the Festival: Malakhov is not coming. Lopatkina tried to begin class, but all in vain - her foot aches in spite of many medical procedures she has taken. Now she is supposed to be in the US ( invited by Baryshnikov) to be consulted by american doctors. Her eight months child is wonderful and healthy, which is a supreme joy for a devoted mother as Uliyana. Link to comment
Natalia Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 re. Ondine - yes, I heard that the rehearsals were going rather slowly and I was afraid of this cancellation. Funding sources had a little something to do with it, too...need more rehearsals but WHO to foot the bill? That sort of thing. (Alberto Villars do not grow on trees and even he had a bad year in the stock market, like everyone else...) Link to comment
Kevin Ng Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Ina, thanks for your news, I didn't realise that Vladimir Malakhov won't appear in the festival. The revised programme for the Mariinsky Festival is now in the English section of the Mariinsky website. http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/ Link to comment
Kevin Ng Posted January 25, 2003 Share Posted January 25, 2003 I found some casting information for the first four performances from another website. 21/02 La Bayadere: Diana Vishneva, Elvira Tarasova, Manuel Legris 22/02 Cinderella: Natalia Sologub, Andrey Merkuriev 23/02 La Bayadere: Daria Pavlenko, Ekaterina Osmolkina, Nikolai Tsiskaridze 24/02 Giselle: Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg Link to comment
Alexandra Posted January 25, 2003 Share Posted January 25, 2003 Thanks for the information, Kevin. We seem to have two threads on this topic; this is the older and shorter of the two, so I'm closing it and ask that any future comments be made on the newer thread: http://www.balletalert.com/forum/showthrea...=&threadid=9197 I'd also suggest that when the Festival starts, we open a new thread for reports from the Festival. I know Jeannie will be reporting in, and I hope others will as well. Thanks! Link to comment
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