aqualia2008 Posted September 7, 2015 Share Posted September 7, 2015 http://www.mikhailovsky.ru/en/afisha/performances/ Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 8, 2015 Author Share Posted September 8, 2015 The cast of the first performance: Medora — Ekaterina Borchenko Conrad — Leonid Sarafanov Gulnare — Anastasia Soboleva Pas des esclaves — Asthik Ogannesyan, Victor Lebedev Link to comment
MadameP Posted September 8, 2015 Share Posted September 8, 2015 The cast of the first performance: Medora — Ekaterina Borchenko Conrad — Leonid Sarafanov Gulnare — Anastasia Soboleva Pas des esclaves — Asthik Ogannesyan, Victor Lebedev The cast of the first performance: Medora — Ekaterina Borchenko Conrad — Leonid Sarafanov Gulnare — Anastasia Soboleva Pas des esclaves — Asthik Ogannesyan, Victor Lebedev Who is Asthik Ogannesyan? She is a coryphee, but do you have any information on where she trained or what companies she has danced in before? Also, there is another dancer I do not know - Vera Sabantseva - who dances Gulnare with Lebedev - do have any information on her? Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 Vera Sabantseva is from the Novosibirsk ballet company. Link to comment
MadameP Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Vera Sabantseva is from the Novosibirsk ballet company. Thank you! Do you know what her position was there, and what roles she danced? Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 I know only that she danced Nikiya with Ivan Vasiliev there. Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 A lot of photos: https://www.facebook.com/zhanna.chul Link to comment
MadameP Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I know only that she danced Nikiya with Ivan Vasiliev there. Thank you! Link to comment
abatt Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Isn't Lebedev the slave even if he's not named Ali in the production. (First photo above) Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 A pic from yesterday! Borchenko & Vasiliev! Also the Conrad variation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5yMHtkyF79g&app=desktop Link to comment
Birdsall Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Isn't Lebedev the slave even if he's not named Ali in the production. (First photo above) He is dressed like Ali to me, so you could be right, but it looks like he is dancing Lankedem (Lankedem dances a pdd with Gulnare when he shows her off to the Pasha). Of course, I haven't seen this production, so things could be different from the Mariinsky version, although the Mikhailovsky's is supposedly based on the Sergeyev version. Maybe the Mik has melded both Lankedem and Ali into one character (traits of both)? Has anyone on BA actually seen this version to let us know? Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 No I think he's just dancing in the Pas d'esclave, which this productions seems to be following the original concept of. Exactly. Link to comment
Birdsall Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 The Mikhailovsky's website does list him in the "pas des esclaves" (their spelling) but the funny thing is that Messerer makes a big deal in an article on the same website about basing this new version on the 1970s Kirov Sergeyev version (although apparently Sergeyev kept changing things or adding things over the years), so sticking Lankedem in as the male with Gulnare during the pas des esclaves as the Mariinsky does today must not be Sergeyev's 1970 version....Is it Gusev's version that changes the slave into the slave trader Lankedem?......for me personally the ur-original is not what is interesting to know.....knowing what was added, deleted, re-added, and reasons why (although we may never know) are even more interesting than actual reconstructions or "originals".....the changes over the years are fascinating, and this new Mikhailovsky version is apparently an attempt to recreate the 1970s Kirov version that apparently the Mariinsky no longer does. Link to comment
naomikage Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Principals Irina Perren and Marat Shemiounov (her husband) has been fired from Mikhailovsky. This was due to the fact that Perren did not perform at Le Corsaire on September 12th and performed in a gala in Monte Carlo instead. http://www.mikhailovsky.ru/press/news/izmenenie_v_sostave/ Their profiles has disappeared from the company roster. Terrible news as Perren is a truly brilliant prima ballerina. Link to comment
alexL Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Oh no! They were both great in Flames of Paris performances in NY. I hope they find a new company soon... I'm wondering why they fired her husband though... Maybe it was his decision to leave with his wife. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 The note from the Mikhailovsky about the cast change cited Perren's "unauthorized departure from Saint Petersburg." Since Shemiunov accompanied her to Monaco, presumably his absence was equally unauthorized, even if he hadn't been scheduled to perform in Le Corsaire that evening. Link to comment
Drew Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Sad to learn of this...When the company came to NY, I loved Perren's performance in Flames of Paris (and her flamboyant acrobatic pas de deux with Shemiunov was a special highlight at the last performance I saw--on a Saturday night). I've read fabulous things about a number of her roles -- notably Giselle and Medora. This seems really unfortunate... Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 18, 2015 Author Share Posted September 18, 2015 Ekaterina Borchenko Pas de deux from Act 2. This is a tape from the last performance - Borchenko was urgently called to replace Perren and she danced with Ivan Vasiliev. Not only that she is taller than him, but they had to perform after a single rehearsal made just before the show. I think they did it well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9K6MquoTs Le Jardin Anime. This is Ekaterina's top scene! pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4kSsLxp6zc pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N987iB4tukA pt 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPKDGpiGCrg Final love scene (with Ivan Vasiliev): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ZLSpZ5fI4 Angelina Vorontsova Variation from Act 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0QSzQSAyIc A lovely dance of "the little corsaire": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICeFEWOTb0 Pas de deux (with Leonid Sarafanov) Adagio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZprJLao29nw Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVrSQNWC274 Coda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoChrnAsmqw Leonid Sarafanov Conrad's variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHzEYpkHag Ivan Vasiliev Other variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yMHtkyF79g Enjoy!!! Link to comment
aqualia2008 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 No comments? Link to comment
Birdsall Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 No comments? I think the reason is time constraints. I am guessing that is why no one has commented. Also, less people (Americans at least) follow the Mikhailovsky. Thank you for the clips. I have not gotten through all of them, even though they are fairly short, b/c I have so much going on this weekend. I still need to finish the Sarafanov clips (only watched his variation). They are fascinating for the differences (comparing to the Gusev version at the Mariinsky which I am much more familiar with). Even if it is not "original" I actually miss Ali! I am not sure I like how the backdrops are really mainly an electronic projection (film projection). At least that is what it looks like. They have tried that type of thing in opera also and I never liked it in that art form either. To my eyes Borchenko seems like a combination of Petersburg and Moscow styles mixed together. Vasiliev still seems very Moscow to me. His time at the Mikhailovsky has not changed his overall style. Sarafanov is much more elegant than Vasiliev but there is excitement to Vasiliev's wildness nevertheless. This is what I love in both ballet and opera.....seeing so many different dancers and there are pros and cons to most all artists (same in opera.....all the greats have flaws but make up for it with major pluses that make them unique). Link to comment
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