cubanmiamiboy Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hi...! Tonight I want to share this two clips from the ballet portions of GLinka's "Ruslan i Lyudmila", with the spectacular Gabriella Komleva-(which I think has the most perfect, crystal clear, pure technique I've ever witnessed either live or on video. (Her Bayadere is among my top three favorite videos ever). There's a lot of Chopiniana in it... Enjoy! “Naina's Maidens,” a ballet portion of Mikail Ivanovich Glinka’s Russian opera Ruslan and Ludmilla was choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1917. This rarely performed work was the last that Fokine did before leaving Russia. The piece was intended to show the sorceress Naina and her maidens trying to hypnotize one of the main characters into doing their bidding". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqpf2UBjhN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zSXWZRC28&feature=related Link to comment
richard53dog Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Hi...! Tonight I want to share this two clips from the ballet portions of GLinka's "Ruslan i Lyudmila", with the spectacular Gabriella Komleva-(which I think has the most perfect, crystal clear, pure technique I've ever witnessed either live or on video. (Her Bayadere is among my top three favorite videos ever). There's a lot of Chopiniana in it... Enjoy! “Naina's Maidens,” a ballet portion of Mikail Ivanovich Glinka’s Russian opera Ruslan and Ludmilla was choreographed by Mikhail Fokine in 1917. This rarely performed work was the last that Fokine did before leaving Russia. The piece was intended to show the sorceress Naina and her maidens trying to hypnotize one of the main characters into doing their bidding". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqpf2UBjhN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zSXWZRC28&feature=related Like the Raymonda clips discussed earlier, these clips look like they come from the video entitled "Glory of the Kirov". Each segment in this terrific film starts with the famous curtain going up in the MT and the details of the clip are announced in yellow captions. There may be slightly different versions of this film, it was first compiled around 1993 and was originally released on VHS. I have the DVD version and would recommend it to anyone interested in a historical survey of the Kirov from about 1930 to the 1980s. More details here, there are lots more wonderful items in addition to the Raymonda and Ruslan scenes Cristian posted http://www.amazon.com/Mikhail-Baryshnikov-Nureyev-Makarova-Dudinskaya/dp/B000A3XZ2M/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1307666992&sr=1-1 or, even better, use the amazon window at the top of the screen and search "glory of the kirov" Link to comment
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