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Rosa

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    What Are You Reading?

    in General Reading and Literature

    Posted

    Recently I finished Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel (didn't like it as much as I expected), Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives (a difficult but interesting read), and An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government by William C. Davis which focused on Jefferson Davis, the president, and John C. Breckinridge, his Secretary of War.

    Currently I'm reading Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer. So far it is proving to be a delightful and humorous story.

    SFB 2010 Romeo and Juliet

    in San Francisco Ballet

    Posted

    Congratulations to Mr. Karapetyan and Ms. Zahorian!

    Every once in awhile some or other company has an onstage proposal.

    Yes, indeed. During the Pennsylvania Ballet's run of Romeo and Juliet in 2005, Zachary Hench proposed to Julie Diana during their curtain call.

    A Swan Lake with all of Tchaikovsky's music?

    in Swan Lake

    Posted

    The Bourmeister production originally set on the ballet company of the Maly Opera uses the whole thing in order according to the 1877 score.

    But I think that he uses the oboe variation from Act III Pas de Six as Odile's solo, instead of the original one-(TPDD). (Still...orrect me if I'm wrong)

    You are correct, cubanmiamiboy.

    What Are You Reading?

    in General Reading and Literature

    Posted

    I recently read Geogette Heyer's Cotillion, which simply delightful; I was laughing from beginning to end. Also, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier; I'd never read du Maurier before, and was quickly swept away into the story. I haven't read a lot of "gothic suspense" fiction, but I found the book very enjoyable. Mary was somewhat a different heroine than I'm used to, seemed like a woman ahead of her time.

    Currently I've just started Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life by Joan Gould. Should be quite fascinating.

    Bolshoi's "Flames of Paris"

    in Ballet Videos, Films, Broadcast Performances, Photos, and Interviews

    Posted

    There is an article from Russian news agency RIA-Novosti about the Flames of Paris broadcast -- cast will be Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Denis Savin and Nina Kaptsova -- and plans for future transmissions of other ballets.

    http://www.rian.ru/culture/20100324/216174553.html

    English translation courtesy of Google:

    "Flames of Paris Bolshoi Theater will show online in 150 cinemas in Europe

    17:18 24/03/2010

    MOSCOW, March 24 - RIA Novosti. The Bolshoi ballet "Flames of Paris" in real time will be broadcast on 150 cinema screens in Europe, mainly France, March 31, organizers said Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow.

    This project is the Year of France in Russia and Russia in France. Among the cities in which it will be possible to become a film watchers Bolshoi Theater - Avignon, Le Havre, Lyon, Nancy, Nice, Paris, Toulon, Toulouse, Bern, Lausanne, and others.

    Told the musical director of the Bolshoi Theater, the composer Leonid Desyatnikov, today new technologies that are being implemented in life, make it possible to carry out such a wonderful project. He noted that now we live in a very interesting time, since this creates a whole new genre, which still has no name.

    Deputy General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Anton Getman has promised that this unusual project will be continued in the new season, when the Bolshoi and the company Bel Air Mebia will broadcast the Bolshoi Ballet in 200 cinemas in France.

    "We already know the dates when it is realized. Opens the draft translation of" Swan Lake "on 26 September, then December 19 is the ballet" The Nutcracker, then January 23 - "Coppelia", March 6 - "Don Quixote" and, finally, March 29 -- ballet "Giselle" and a class-concert, which will be combined into a single view, "- said Getman.

    According to him, it would be a real live broadcast, where viewers can feel present in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater. "Overestimate the importance of these projects difficult - he said. - This - a real step forward for the introduction of Russia's art in the European context, which is incredibly increases the audience of the Bolshoi Theater.

    Ballet "The Flames of Paris" was first delivered to the 15 th anniversary of the Great October Revolution in 1932. The creators were composer Boris Astafjevs, director and choreographer Sergei Radlov Basil Winona. Ballet script was written based on the novel-chronicle of Felix Gras Marseilles, "which tells of the overthrow of the monarchy in France in 1792.

    This ballet has been renewed several times until the early 60-ies existed in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater. But then almost all the choreography was lost, except for the famous pas de deux and several typical dances, including Dance of the Basques. In 2008, the New Stage of the Bolshoi Ballet, this recreated Alexei Ratmansky. Above the redistribution of the libretto with him worked Alexander Belinsky. March 31, the main parties will perform Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Denis Savin, Nina Kaptsova.

    Simultaneously broadcast ballet company Bel Air Mebia will also carry out and videotaped the performance - in the future it will be shown on TV channels Arte and Mezzo.

    ABT in Chicago 2010

    in American Ballet Theatre

    Posted

    Updated casting of the Swan Lake run:

    April 15th

    Herrera/Stiefel

    April 16th matinee

    Wiles/Stearns

    April 16th evening

    Kent/Gomes

    April 17th matinee

    Murphy/Carreno

    April 17th evening

    Dvorovenko/Beloserkovsky

    April 18th matinee

    Wiles/Stearns

    April 18th evening

    Part/Gomes

    Kirov in DC

    in Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet

    Posted

    Thank you everyone for the wonderful reviews! :thumbsup:

    More great dancing from Shklyarov. From the number of Youtube clips of them together, I gather Tereshkina is one of his regular partners (and Vishneva is not). He looked much more relaxed tonight, and he related to Tereshkina much more than he did to Vishneva. And a nice save in the fish dive in the grand pas de deux!

    Tuesday was the first time Shklyarov and Vishneva danced together.

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