Guest Louise Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 thanks for the welcome! personally what's your favourite ballet composer? Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 There are so many for so many different purposes, I can't single ONE out as a favorite. I'd hate to see Offenbach used for a telling of the Ring of the Nibelungen, though, or Alban Berg used for a ballet about Winnie-the-Pooh. By the way, you don't have to create a new thread when you want to reply to a previous post. There's a button right next to New Thread marked Reply to Post, and that will continue the thread so one doesn't have to jump from thread to thread to follow a conversation. Link to comment
Guest Louise Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 thanks again, I guess it's going to take a few tries to get this right! By the way I looked at some old stuff people wrote about swan lake that interested me quite a lot, especially the supposed problem with act IV? I must say I've watched a few productions of the ballet, especially recently as I'm writing a dissertation on it for my degree, and although it is obvious that many interpret the ending in different ways I don't see the problem in a) ending it happily, and B) why there is a dancing/ music problem with it anyway. I was just wondering if you had any further views on it, especially if you've seen more productions of it recently. By the way I've seen the following versions: Swedish royal ballet, Siberian state ballet(sergei boborov), royal opera house (covent garden) petipa-ivanov. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 In its original form, Act IV was very under-filled by Tchaikovsky, perhaps to compensate for an overfull Act I - about an hour in the 1877 score. Drigo had to fill a lot of space and provide time for the story to resolve by interpolating transcriptions of two Tchaikovsky piano pieces. Since you're writing on the ballet, have you seen: http://www.balletalert.com/ballets/Petipa/...ke/swanlake.htm ? It's not so old, I only wrote it a couple of years ago. Link to comment
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