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klingsor

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  1. Amanda McKerrow's Ethereal Farewell http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5071502003.html
  2. Good Lord drb, I rarely read a post that echoes my sentiments completely, including the refererence to poor Von Rothbart's "Swan Fetish" As for Zhong-Jing Fang, I'd add "La Sylphide" to the ballets I'm hoping to see her in.
  3. Please correct if I'm wrong, but didn't Ashton do it that way also?
  4. No major changes that I noticed. Basically the same.
  5. Balanchine's "La Sonnambula" music by Vittorio Rieti (after themes of Vincenzo Bellini)
  6. Erik Bruhn's Madge in "La Sylphide" Alexander Godunov's Tybalt in Grigorovich's "Romeo and Juliet" Nina Timofeyeva's Aegina in "Spartacus" Gary Chryst's Iago (The Moor's Friend) in "The Moor's Pavane" Lucia Chase's Stepmother in "Fall River Legnd"
  7. If done well, it's a beutiful ballet. The music has the aroma of fall and the ballet evokes the twilight of youth.
  8. Went Friday and Saturday night. Enjoyed both evenings very much but who decided to use "Winnie The Pooh" in Petrouchka instead of that big bear they used to have. Tempi in Les Sylphide were a little too slow I thought.
  9. I sent this thread to a Belgian internet friend of mine on a Hockey MessageBoard. Here's his response:
  10. Upon further review, the big difference is a lack of refreshments during the performance. At a sporting event you can always find a vendor hawking "popcorn, peanuts and crackerjacks". Yeah, I think it's great when they do "Swan Lake" in two acts instead of four, but what do I do when my stomach starts churning at the end of ACT III?
  11. Unless you stick around for the curtain calls at an opening, there aren't that many opportunities in "Art" to relieve one's natural aggression by booing people you despise for the moment (directors especially). Sports, on the other hand, afford you countless chances to vent your anger from beginning to end (coaches and managers, players, owners, refs, intermission entertainers, mascots).
  12. I always thought it was Gelsey's choice to end "Swan Lake" that way. When you're dead, you're dead. Nuts, I liked it that way. I was at the Marianna-Fernando "Giselle". Pretty sure it was Paul Connelly in the pit who got confused. I could see Marianna and Fernando talking to each other and they made a very musical exit as the curtain came down. Then they started the ballet from the beginning.
  13. I do remember enjoying Bejart's "Firebird", though it was more Phoenix than Firebird. Don't know if I should feel guilty about it, though.
  14. Grigorovich's "Spartacus" Bejart's "Bolero"
  15. Rest In Peace, Marlon. My favorite Brando line: Girl: What're you rebelling against, Johnny? Johnny: Whaddya got?
  16. When the Berlin Ballet danced at the NY State Theatre I'm pretty sure it was Panov's production. Considering how much dancing he added for himself as Hilarion in Act II it might have been called "Hilarion". Evdokimova danced with Imre Dozsa. Panov danced Albrecht with his wife, Galina. Evdokimova danced Giselle the next week at the Met with the London Festival Ballet. She danced with Nureyev. May have been his production. Of course, there were some extra variations for Albrecht in Act I. Surprised no one has mentioned DTH's "Giselle" which took place in Louisiana. Why not? "Manon Lescaut" ends up in Louisiana, too.
  17. Met site does not list Marguerite and Armand. They do list all other casting more or less as above. Does anybody have any information? Link: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 http://www.metopera.org/cgi-bin/perfabt00....04&opera=ASH601
  18. Fine and dandy!!! I'm addicted to polls. Seems I gotta go to NYCB tonight in order to vote. I'm not feeling very well to begin with. The sacrifices we have to make for Alexandra.
  19. I must have dark ballets: La Sonnambula La Valse
  20. Repulsion (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/ Too late now, but... With Gelsey Kirkland Choreography: Tudor Music: Schoenberg, maybe?
  21. Nothing wrong with elitism in my book, but just about any performance at Lincoln Center is accompanied by exposure to the comments and poor manners of dolts. In the 70s and 80s most of my subscriptions to NYCB were 2nd and 3rd ring center. The quality of the audience, though still good, is not what it once was. I now sit in the AAs of the second and third ring to limit my exposure to inane comments, talking, applause during the music, coughing and interminable candy wrapper opening.
  22. I'd like to see ABT do "Concerto Barocco" during their fall season at City Centre, if for no other reason than seeing it done on that stage.
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