Stars of the Russian Ballet

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This may be combined from other compilations of televised dances and is mainly from the 70s and early 80s. You will need to be willing to accept an inferior quality of sound, occasional abrupt cuts, disruptive effects and amazing curtains ;).

However, I bought it because of wanting to see more of Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova and have not regretted it for a moment. The highlights for me are Icarus and Walpurgis Night and Romeo and Juliet. There is also a wonderful Don Quixote with Nina Timofeyeva and Alexander Godunov.

Stars of the Russian Ballet

[contents copied from the web]

Volume 1

129 minutes

Chapter 1:

01."SWAN" / 1975 year shooting /- 3'30" / Music: C.Saint-Saens/ Choreography: M.Fokine MAYA PLISETSKAYA

02. "DON QUIXOTE" / 1972 year shooting / - 620". Music: L.Minkus / Choreography: M.Petipa / EKATERINA MAKSIMOVA and VLADIMIR VASILIYEV

03. "MELODY" / 1970 year shooting / - 3'50" / Music: A. Dvorjak / Choreography: K.Goleizovsky / NATALIA BESSMERTNOVA and ALEXANDR LAVRENYUK

04. "BUTTERFLY" / 1983 year shooting / - 10'15" / Music: J.Offenbach / Choreography: M.Taglioni / P.Leconte / IRINA KOLPAKOVA and SERGEY BEREZHNOY

05. "MAZOUR DANCE" / 1972 year shooting / - 3'00" / Music: A.Skryabin / Choreography: K. Goleizoovsky / EKATERINA MAKSIMOVA

06. "PERI" / 1983 year shooting / - 6'40" / Music: F.Buergmuller / Choreography: V.Timofeev / LYUBOV KUNAKOVA and MARAT DOUKAYEV

07. "MELODY" / 1978 year shooting / - 3'40" / Music: K.Gluck / Choreography: A.Messerer / MARINA KONDRATIYEVA and MARIS LIEPA

08. "LA BAYADERE" / 1979 year shooting / - 11'00" / Music: L.Mincus / Chereography: M.Petipa / NADEJDA PAVLOVA and VYACHESLAV GORDEYEV

09. "DON QUIXOTE" - "GIPSY DANCE" / 1971 year shooting / - 2'55" / Music: V.Zhelobinsky / Choreography: K.Goleizovsky / TAMARA VARLAMOVA and BOLSHOI ballet dancers

10. "SWAN LAKE" / 1973 year shooting / - 9'35" / Music: P.Tchaikovsky / Choreography: M.Petipa/Llvanov / MAYA PLISETSKAYA and VALERY KOVTUN

Chapters 2:

1. "SWAN LAKE" / 1973 year shooting / - 6' 58" / Music: P.Tchaikovsky / Choreography: M.Petipa & L.Ivanov/ 1895/ MAYA PLISETSKAYA and VALERY KOVTUN

2. "NARCISSE" / 1971 year shooting / - 4'47" / Music: N.Cherepnin / Choreography: K.Goleizovsky VLADIMIR VASIUEV

3. "ESMERALDA" / 1983 year shooting / -6'56" / Music: C.Puni / Choreography: M.Petipa / A/Vaganova TATYANA TEREKHOVA and NIKOLAY KOVMIR

4. "LAYLA ana MAJNU" / 1971 year shooting / - 3' 32" / Music: S.Balasanyan / Choreography: K.Golelzovsky MARIA GORODSKAYA and ELLA KASTERINA

5. "GISELLE" / 1978 year shooting / -10' 15" / Music: A.Adan / Choreography: J.Coralli, J.Perrot,

M.Petipa / 1841/ MARINA KONDRATYEVA and VALERY KOVTUN

6. "VENICE CARNEVALE" / 1983 year shooting / - 3' 31" / Music: C.Puni / Choreography: M.Petipa / 1895 /SVETLANA EFREMOVA and VALERY YEMEC

7. "DON QUIXOTE" / 1976 year shooting / - 7'30" / Music: L.Minkus / Choreography: M.Petipa /1869 / & A.Gorsky / 1902 / NINA TIMOFEYEVA and ALEXANDER GODUNOV

8. "LEGEND of LOVE" / 1978 year shooting / -5'27" / Music: A.Melikov / Choreography: Y.Grigorovich / LYUDMILA SEMENYAKINA and ALEXANDER BOGATYREV

9. "ROMEO and JULIA" / 1979 year shooting / - 13' 30" / Music: G.Berlioz / Choreography: M.Bezhar / EKATERINA MAXIMOVA and VLADIMIR VASILIYEV

Volume 2

121 minutes

Chapter 3

1. "The SLEEPING BEAUTY" / 1977 year shooting / - 5' 32". Music: P.Tchaikovsky / Choreography: M.Petipa / 1890 / MAYA PLISETSKAYA and BOLSHOI ballet dancers

2. "ICAR" / 1978 year shooting / - 1'51" Music: S.Sionimsky / Choreography: V.Vasiliyev / 1971 / EKATERINA MAXIMOWA and VLADIMIR VASILIYEV

3. "VARIATION" / 1978 year shooting / - 1'51". Music: D.Ober / Choreography: M.Fokine MARINA KONDRATYEVA

4. "BAYANA" / 1984 year shooting / - 5'45". Music: Vila-Lobos / Choreography: L.Lebedeva NATALIA BOLSHAKOVA and VADIM GULYAEV

5. "ESMERALDA" / 1976 year shooting / - 6'39" Music: C.Puni / Choreography: M.Petipa / 1886 / NINA TIMOFEYEVA and YURI VLADIMIROV

6. "GISELLE" / 1978 year shooting / - 3'37" Music: A.Adan / Choreography: J.Coralli, J.Perrot, M.Petipa / 1841 / LYUDMILA SEMENYAKA and MIKHAIL LAVROVSKY

7. "BIRD of PREY" / 1971 year shooting / - 3'31" Music: M.Ravel / Choreography: K.Goleizovskiy ELENA RYABINKINA

8. "VALPURGY NIGHT" / 1974 year shooting / - 9'11" Music: C.Gunot / Choreography: L. Lavrovsky EKATERINA MAXIMOVA, SHAMIL YAGOUDIN, STANISLAV VLASOV

9. "DON QUIXOTE" / 1968 year shooting / - 7'45" Music: L.Minkus / Choreography: M.Petipa / 1869 / & A.Gorsky/ 1902 / LYUDMILA SEMENYAKA and MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV

10. "ROSA's DEATH " / 1978 year shooting / 10'00" Music: G.Maler / Choreography: R.Petit MAYA PLISETSKAYA and VALERY KOVTUN

Chapter 4

1. "ROMEO and JULIET" / 1955 year shooting/ - 4'54". Music: S.Prokofiev / Choreography: L.Lavrovsky / 1940 year / GALINA ULANOVA and YURI ZHDANOV

2. "SWAN LAKE" / 1983 year shooting / - 9'23" Music: P.Tchaikovsky / Choreography: M.Petipa / Y.Grigorovitch / 1969 / NATALIA BESSMERTNOVA and ALEXANDR BOGATYREV

3. "RAYMONDA" / 1976 year shooting / - 3'00" Music: A.Giazunov / Choreography: Marius Petipa / 1 898 / IRINA KOLPAKOVA and VADIM SEMENOV

4. "FLAMES of PARIS" / 1977 year shooting / - 8"12" Music: Y.Asafyev / Choreography: V.Vainonen / 1933 / MARINA KONDRATYEVA and VALERY LAGUNOV

5. "FLOWERS FESTIVAL in JENZANO" / 1977year shooting / - 7'46". Music: E.Helsted / Choreography: A. Bournonville / 1839 / TATYANA TAYAKINA and VALERY KOVTUN

6. "ANGARA RIVER" / 1979 year shooting / - 3'52" Music: A.Ashpay / Choreography: Y.Grigorovitch /1976/ LYUDMILA SEMENYAKA and BORIS AKIMOV

7. "SPANISH CAPRICCIO" / 1973 year shooting / - 4'02" Music: N.Rimskiy-Korsakov / Choreography: V.Gonsales / M.Kamaletdinov LARISA TREMBOVELSKAYA and SERGEY RADCHENKO

8. "DON QUIXOTE" / 1991 year shooting / - 10'35" Music: L.Minkus / Choreography: M.Petipa / 1869 / ILGIZ GALIMULLIN and LYUDMILA VASILIYEVA

[rg]

can you give the label, etc. of this release?

is it NTSC or PAL? is it available in the US?

(there was some discussion here a little while back, if memory serves, about the somewhat unusual FLAMES OF PARIS excerpt included here, the one in chapter 4 w/ kondratyeva, b/c the dance was not one of the familiar excerpts known outside russia. and now w/the promised revival of the full work by the bolshoi ballet such highlights are of added interest.)

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can you give the label, etc. of this release?

is it NTSC or PAL? is it available in the US?

The case covers are in Russian and there are no booklets. I would be happy to photocopy the covers and post them to one of you if you wanted to translate the publication details. My copies came from www.tvshows-dvd.com

Stars Of The Russian Ballet

Format NTSC

Region All

Subtitles: English

Russia

2006

From experience: If you are ordering from this site and you are having the dvd sent to a non NTSC country but still want the NTSC format I would suggest clarifying that in the order. If you want a PAL version it would be worth emailing them and asking them if one is possible. But these two dvds are also available elsewhere, including Amazon Market. The Amazon Market copy says it is Region 1 -- US and Canada.

Note: For newcomers to ballet, like myself, there is another dvd with exactly the same title: Stars of the Russian Ballet / Plisetskaya, Ulanova, Chabukiani, Dudinskaya, Sergeyev, Gusev, Bolshoi Ballet (1954).