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It was a such pleasure to see Bolshoi's Don Quixote again this afternoon. The Bolshoi dancers could always make this ballet cheerful and dynamic as fireworks! Krysanova and Chudin's dancing looked like there were winds blowing under their feet. I could not help clapping (quietly) over and over again.

But, I didn't like the new set design in Act I. The costume colors were in low contrast and low saturation, too low. And, that was a cloudy day! So, the scene looked very flat on the big screen. I miss the sunny Spain!

Is the time [ America/... ] to watch, on the booking page, Eastern time?

Casting is up for April 10 "Live in Cinema" broadcast of Bolshoi's new staging of Don Quixote: http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/912/roles/#20160410180000

For convenience:

Kitri Ekaterina Krysanova

Basilio, a barber Semyon Chudin

Don Quixote, an errant knight Alexei Loparevich

Sancho Pansa, his squire Roman Simachev

...

An excellent casting composition. I love it!

I saw Krysanova & Chudin dancing in Don Quixote, when they visited N.Y. in 2014. Krysanova is my favorite Kitri, simply the best. She is sparkling on stage. Her Kitri is not only fast and light, but also very lovely and cute. Chudin was a noble-baber. His style is always very noble, keeping his neck bolt upright. Hope he could smile more this time on HD screen.

The only one I missed in the casting was Skvortsov's Espada, because Bolshoi didn't let him come to N.Y. that summer. I have no doubt he would be a very stylish Espada, as good as Merkuriev.

I am very happy to see these Bolshoi dancers performing D.Q. again in HD theaters.

The website now has updated start times:

9am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern, 5 pm GMT, 6 pm CET

When it lists 4 am Monday for Australia, I'm guessing this refers to south-eastern Australia.

https://www.zarely.co

YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqf11NT4yaQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqf11NT4yaQ

The broadcasting of Taming of the Shrew was down about half hours after start at the nearest theater yesterday. We could only see big sign of "dish" on screen. The manager said that was a problem in the whole region (west cost). So, we got refund. Maybe they would encore this ballet sometimes in the future. At this moment, it is unknown.

In the first half hour, Taming of the Shrew is an "action ballet". The choreographer weaved all kind of stylish slapping and kicking in to dancing. Very eye-popping! How could he manage to do this artistically?! Somehow, just like Shaolin dance.

The food looks delicious!

I went to see the Nutcracker by PNB at McCaw Hall last Saturday afternoon. The theater was packed with young parents and their children. The little girl sitting behind me was probably only 3 years old. During the show some of them would yell, scream, ..., which was all right to me. I like the PNB's dancers a lot, who were all dancing with the mood and passion, and communicate with audience so that their performance was very appealing. The whole theater was like a big party, full of the immeasurable joys of holidays.

Murphy as Sugar Plum Fairy and Adomaitis as Dewdrop danced beautifully, though, I didn't expect to see a super flying prince and was not very impressed by the Grand Pas De Deux. Having all the technique, the solos are all professionally competent. Well done the corps de ballet of PNB, they looked uniform and cohesive, amazing!

The stage setting of the party scene at the Stahlbaum house surprised me the most. The hall room looked VERY deep and special. I was wondering how the 3D depth could be spread on 2D TV or movie screen?

My cousin went with me. At the end she told me: this is not as much fun as Swan Lake; Act 1 is boring, and Act 2 is better. Although, I told her: PNB is one of the best ballet theaters in the USA, among top 5, however, I don't think that makes sense to her.

Maybe, Swan Lake, Giselle and D.Q., are better Ballet 101 for my friends?

Thank you, Helene, for the info. After posting, I checked the seat chart and found that the seats for $100+/- were almost all taken. I hurried up & bought two tickets.

Any promotion code for this Saturday's performance?

I will ask my cousin to go to see your Nutcracker this weekend.

She has never seen Nutcracker ballet, well so far.

I don't want to disappoint her.

Last night I went to see it and enjoyed vary much! I might go to Seattle to visit my cousin next week. Let me try to persuade her to go to see PNB's Nutcracker.

Of cause I had watched Nutcracker before. However, this is one of the classical ballets, I have to sit in theaters without freedom to move around so as to watch it from end to end. And I could never finish watching it in front of TV, computer screen and etc.
IMHO, Balanchine's Nutcracker is more of a family party than dancing. That let me recall about 10 years ago I went to see Nutcracker, performed by a tour group of NYCB or ABT in Kodak Theater, Los Angeles. At the box office I was told only two types of tickets were available, $125 for the orchestra floor and $17 the top 4-th floor. Then, I bought a tickets of $17 and could see only the front half of stage without stage sets, and missed a lot of corp de ballet dancing. I saw the audiences around, 99% were parents with little kids. All of them enjoyed the ballet, though they could not see the famous Christmas Tree on stage.

After that, I was wondering why THE theater made the tickets for a family-entertaining ballet so expensive. If the tickets for orchestra seats were about $80, many parents on the top floor might be willing to spend $300 for two kids and themselves to see the WHOLE beautiful ballet. As I know, many ballet theaters make income by performing Nutcracker during the holiday season. But, why not, there should be a balance, leave the $125 seats empty or lower the tickets price to sell them. Frankly speaking, ballet as an art with "high-elevated form", if it is too commercialized, that is not good for it.
BTW, I like SFBallet's Nutcracker better than NYCB's.

Make a note:

Ballet "La Dame aux Camelias" music of Frederic Chopin 2008
Published on Mar 24, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paLMB3BPnlA

Music: Frederic Chopin
LA DAME AUX CAMÉLIAS

Marguerite Gautier -- Agnès Letestu
Armand Duval -- Stéphane Bullion
Monsieur Duval -- Michaël Denard
Prudence Duvernoy -- Dorothée Gilbert
Manon Lescaut -- Delphine Moussin
Des Grieux -- José Martinez
Olympia -- Eve Grinsztajn
Gaston Rieux -- Karl Paquette
Le Duc -- Laurent Novis
Nanine -- Béatrice Martel
Le Comte de N. -- Simon Valastro

____________________________________________________________

Lady of the Camellias - Marcia Haydee & Ivan Liska (1986)
Published on Apr 13, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeBNkV5aw1s

Coreografía: John Neumeier
Año: 1986

Marguerite Gautier - Marcia Haydee
Armand Duval - Ivan Liska
Monsieur Duval - Francois Klaus
Prudence - Colleen Scott
Gaston - Vladimir Klos
Manon Lescaut - Lynne Charles
Des Grieux - Jeffrey Kirk
Olympia - Gigi Hyatt
Nanina - Beatrice Cordua
Duke - Victor Hughes
Earl N. - William Parton
Pianist - Richard Hoynes
Married couple - Shristina Fritschi, Anders Hellstrom

Me too, I love today's broadcasting of The Lady of the Camellias very much!
Bolshoi's musicians played the Chopin's piano concertos so beautifully, though, not passionate enthusiasm like Argerich's playing. However, the music and dance fit really well. The Bolshoi dancers can make every movement look very natural, their performances are highly true, which made this ballet believable.
I might say that Zakharova's performance of today is being herself. Actually, I didn't have lots of chances to see her dancing in theaters. Although I know she is a super ballet star, but for what? From YouTube, I could only see she is one of many excellent ballet dancers. However, her performance of today is hard to beat.
Revazov as Armand is very competent. And, he is young, healthy, simple, a true lover. Revazov's Armand and Zakharova's Margaret are a pair of contrasts, that makes sumptuous and tragical Margaret stand out.
I am very happy to see all dancers of major roles got bunches of flowers in hands at curtain calls. They certainly deserve these.

This is the same film that was presented on public television about two years ago. The cast does not change depending on whether you see it on Dec 5 or 10. Someone p osted a link to the casting above. Megan Fairchild is Sugarplum, Bouder is Dewdrop and DeLuz is Cavalier

Do they have different casting for Dec. 5th & 10th, two broadcastings? I guess the theater could be very crowded for Saturday's show. If I could chose, I might want to go on Thursday night. Fathom usually does not post casting info, or I have not found the info path.

Last night I clicked around YouTube and found someone's posting of Гала-концерт "Аве Майя". Часть 1
https://youtu.be/3SeccGfWDlQ
Following the Часть 1, I saw Часть 2, Часть 3, ..., Часть 8. Those are recording of Russian tv programs. Although the videos are not in HD, I can still feel the warm and moving atmosphere over theater that Maya is in everybody's heart.
I could not see Diana Vishneva's performance of Bolero in those clips. It might be cut off for some reason?

I don't see braodcasting of ROH's Nutcracker on Fathom's Events. Do they think that one Ballet Nutcracker is enough for one year?

Bolshoi has published an Announcement - Ave Maya 20.11.2015. It says:

And now in memory of her and of her plans for celebrating her 90th birthday - how once again she aspired to astonish and delight her fans - the Bolshoi Theatre is ready to give its all to rise to the occasion. She both approved and blessed the PROGRAMME for her evening, she wrote it out in her own hand and we have reproduced this in facsimile in the very unusual theatre programs for the Gala. And, of course, she will be visibly present – alas, not on stage, but on the screen...

See: http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/about/press/articles/announce/ave-maya/

A huge (3501 × 2551) photo image of Maya Plisetskaya is available for downloading on page
http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/about/press/photo/maya/
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Surprise surprise. Zakharova is getting the Dec 6 broadcast of Lady of the Camellias. Her partner is someone I've never heard of from the Hamburg ballet (E. Revazov?). http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/713/roles/#20151206180000

Did E. Revazov dance with Zakharova for Bolshoi's premiere of Lady of the Camellias last year in Moscow? It seemed to be, and I saw some clips on YouTube.

IMO, Zakharova's Marguerite is good, as she looked proud, cold and sick. From what I saw on YouTube, I think Revazov's Armand is boyish and little bit simple-minded, who is not the Armand as my understanding from reading the book. But, if Neumeier likes Revazov's Armand, I would try to adjust my percipient.

Ave Maya

Gala in Honor of 90th Anniversary of Maya Plisetskaya

Historic stage

20 & 21 November, 7 pm


PART I

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Introduction to the Sleeping Beauty

Mikhail Glinka
Jota Aragonesa
Choreography by Igor Moiseyev
Igor Moiseyev State Academic Ensemble of Popular Dance

Boris Asafiev
Zarema’s variation of from The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov
Yulia Yangurazova (Stepanova) (Bolshoi Theatre)

Ludwig Minkus
Kitri’s variation from the 1st act of the ballet Don Quixote
Choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky
Maria Alexandrova (the Bolshoi Theatre)

Ludwig Minkus
Kitri’s variation from the 3rd act of the ballet Don Quixote
Choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky
Ekaterina Krysanova (Bolshoi Theatre)
Solo on harp: Elizaveta Simonenko

Alexander Krein
Laurencia’s variation from the 2nd act of the ballet Laurencia
Choreography by Vakhtang Chabukiani
Angelina Vorontsova (Mikhailovsky Theatre)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Odile’s variation of from the 3rd act of the ballet Swan Lake
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Olga Smirnova (Bolshoi Theatre)

Alexander Glazunov
Raymonda’s variation from the 1st act of the ballet Raymonda
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Ekaterina Shipulina (Bolshoi Theatre)

Alexander Glazunov
Raymonda’s variation from the 2nd act of the ballet Raymonda
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Maria Allash (Bolshoi Theatre)
Solo on French horn: Alexei Raev

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Aurora’s variation from the 3rd act of the ballet The Sleeping Beauty
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Nina Kaptsova (Bolshoi Theatre)
Solo on violin: Vladimir Sklyarevsky

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Marie’s variation from the 2nd act of the ballet Nutcracker
Choreography by Vasily Vainonen
Evgenia Obraztsova (Bolshoi Theatre)
Solo on celesta: Vladimir Chukhnov

Extracts from Maya Plisetskaya’s diary
Narrator: Anna Kamenkova


PART II

To music by Gustav Mahler
La rose malade
Choreography by Roland Petit
Costume Designer: Yves St Laurent
Uliana Lopatkina
Andrey Ermakov (Mariinsky Theatre)

Johann Sebastian Bach – Charles Gounod – Rodion Shchedrin
Ave Maria
Cello: Boris Lifanovsky
Harp: Elizaveta Simonenko
Extracts from Maya Plisetskaya’s diary
Narrator: Anna Kamenkova

To music by Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Choreography by Maurice Béjart
Set and Costume Designer: Maurice Béjart
Lighting Designer: Dominique Roman

Diana Vishneva (the Mariinsky Theatre)
Gabriel Arenas Ruiz, Connor Barlow, Francisco Javier Casado Suarez, Michelangelo Chelucci, Mattia Galiotto, Fabrice Gallarrague, Kwinten Guilliams, Juan Jimenez Sanchez, Ergys Lalaj, Kevin Lila, Anthony Maestre Benitez, Federico Matetich, Theophile Onana Essomba, Masayoshi Onuki, Vito Pansini, Laurence Rigg, Denovane Victoire, Oscar Chacon Ramirez, Felipe Ferreira Rocha Pinto, Jiayong Sun (Béjart Ballet Lausanne)
Bolshoi Theatre Corps de Ballet


PART III

Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite
Choreography by Alberto Alonso
Set and Costume Designer: Boris Messerer

Carmen - Svetlana Zakharova
Jose - Denis Rodkin
Torero - Mikhail Lobukhin
Corregidor - Vitaly Biktimirov
Fate - Yulia Yangurazova (Stepanova)
Tobacco Girls - Olga Kishneva, Tatiana Lazareva, Viktoria Yakusheva
Flamenco dancers - Alexey Gaynutdinov, Anton Gaynutdinov, Dmitry Dorokhov, Vladislav Kozlov, Kirill Kireev, Anton Kondratov, Victor Meshcherekov, Apollinary Proskurnin, Erick Swolkin, Kirill Sobolev

Solo on percussion: Sergei Soloviev, Mikhail Dunaev, Igor Prokopov, Evgeny Romanov, Vasily Moiseev

Conductors – Tugan Sokhiev, Pavel Sorokin
Director – Andris Liepa
Lighting Designer – Mikhail Sokolov
Video – Nikita Tikhonov

http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/927/

I am going to see Ballet Hispanics tonight. Last time I went to see Alvin Ailey, which was a very fresh experience to me. Although I didn;t really like Chroma that I felt I was watching a figure skating competition, its fun to watch Grace and Revelations.

For ROH, I bet on that ROH might release a DVD for their Carmen and Afternoon of a Faun.

http://tvkultura.ru/...deo_id/1403246/

Would Russian TV always put this kind of program on internet? I hope they would put recording of Ave Maya Gala for Maya Plisetskaya on internet also.

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This show's timing conflicts with Ballet Hispanico ?

How about Nina Ananiashvili?

I really know little about ballet history.

I thought Svetlana Zakharova could wait.

Ulyana Lopatkina definitely deserves Now.

But, Nina!!