Mariangela

Thanks to everyone for your answers! They were very helpful for me  Now I have new questions: First; I have seen on Youtube some videos of Aurelie Dupont in the Sleeping Beauty and I liked much. In your opinion, is it worth to buy the DVD? What do you think of her interpretation of Aurora? Second; do you think is it worth to buy the DVDs box set The Art of Svetlana Zakharova at the Bolshoi? There are 4 DVDs of her performances in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère and The Pharaoh's Daughter.  Thanks again  

7 hours ago, Ashton Fan said:

Mariangela.

I forgot to say that if you could give people who post on this site  a clue about your specific areas of balletic interest we might be able to give you some  more specific suggestions about ballets which you might like. Here is a suggestion. ICA issued a DVD of Fokine's Les Sylphides in glorious black and white. The recording dates from the early 1950's and the cast includes Markova, Beriosova and Elvin. It is an extraordinary account of the ballet danced idiomatically by a cast who understood deep in their bones how the ballet should go and the performance is introduced by Karsavina. This recording,I think, make it clear just why someone like de Valois considered it  one of the great ballets of the twentieth century. There is a second recording  of the work made some ten years later this time with a Royal Ballet cast led by Fonteyn and Nureyev which makes a strong argument for it. It is to be found on a DVD called, I think, " An Evening with the Royal Ballet"  and is not to be sniffed at either.

I like more romantic and lyrical ballets, as Giselle and Swan Lake, but I'm open to other suggestions to discover new ballets  As example, now I'm intrigued by La Sylphide 😉

Hello,

I would like to know some DVD titles of repertoire ballets, since I started collecting them. What are the "essentials" to have? For now I own Swan Lake, Giselle, La Bayadère all danced by Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle, Giselle with Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov and Raymonda with Olesya Novikova and Friedmann Vogel. Which others do you recommend? Thank you so much ❤️

7 minutes ago, cubanmiamiboy said:

You can never watch enough Giselles. I will suggest you to go with it. Sleeping Beauty is grander, in terms of amount of variations, stage time, music score and costumes design, but the shorter Giselle has everything you can ask for, including the emotional/psychological aspect that SB lacks. And of course...for every terrifying Beauty's Rose Adagio there is always an equally terrifying Giselle's Pas Seul, so you will have the same fun carefully analyzing the ballerina technical ability or lack of.

Go with Giselle.

Thank you so much!

1 hour ago, aurora said:

It has been some years since I saw Polina (at ABT in Swan Lake) but she is too cool for me. Lovely limbs and positions but no emotion. Of course that is something that can improve over time.

Thank you Aurora! In your opinion, which is the best ballet between Giselle and The Sleeping Beauty with Svetlana Zakharova and for the ballet in itself?

Thanks so much! I also think that, in fact Svetlana Zakharova is one of my favorites in Giselle. But The Sleeping Beauty will be staged after 12 years at La Scala in the version of Nureyev, and so I wanted to see how she was in this ballet and how was the ballet in itself in this version. I've seen her only in the version of Grigorovich (on Youtube) and she had a fantastic technique, but yes, I prefer her in more lyrical roles, as Odette, Nikiya or Giselle. The guest star for The Sleeping Beauty is Polina Semionova, but I don't like her so much. What do you think of her? 

Hi!

The next year at La Scala theater there be Giselle and The Sleeping Beauty with Svetlana Zakharova, and I love so much both the ballets! But I can go to see only one, because I don't live in Milan: so, which one do you advice me to see live? And what is the ballet in which Zakharova expresses herself better between these two? I hope in your answers. Bye! 

P.S. I know it's too early to think at it, but I want to have a clear idea 😊

Hi! I'm Mariangela and I'm from Italy  Maybe I'm the only Italian here 😂😂 I always loved dance, from 6 to 11 years old I practised dance, but only from 2 years I'm interested to the ballets. My favourite ballets are Swan Lake, it's the ballet that has approached me to this art, Giselle and The Sleeping Beauty. Recently, I loved La Bayadère. Bye! 😊