mussel Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Zurich Ballet will premier Ratmansky Swan Lake (p.44-5) on Feb 6, 2016. Don't know if it will be a reconstruction of the 1895 production. http://issuu.com/opernhauszuerich/docs/opernhaus_sb_ih_low/1 Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Sets and costumes by ... Toer van Schayk, so it doesn't sound like a true recon.... .... Link to comment
mussel Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 I suspected it wouldn't be a recon., hope Ratmansky save the recon for ABT, but I doubt KM would let go of his SL. Which company Petersen is staging the 1895 SL for? Link to comment
Helene Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I suspected it wouldn't be a recon., hope Ratmansky save the recon for ABT, but I doubt KM would let go of his SL. Which company Petersen is staging the 1895 SL for? Washington Ballet: http://www.dcoutlook.com/2014/11/the-washington-ballet-to-make-historic.html I think McKenzie will wait to see how "Sleeping Beauty" is received and whether it has legs with the audience. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I have seen Peterson's Swan Lake, and it is decidedly not a reconstruction. That is made clear in the linked piece. Peterson has streamlined his version for audiences by omitting select national dances from Act III and has added a few of his own dances (including the Act I waltz and a Pas de Trois in Act III). These highly refined additions are stylistically consistent with the original. In addition, he has carefully restored rarely seen Act IV pantomime passages. I can't speak definitively about stylistic consistency, but said pas de trois in Act 3 was quite hokey. There was also an exceedingly stupid dance for four men that bordered on the typical shenanigans of the mercifully absent jester and a somewhat awkward "melancholy" solo for Siegfried at the end of Act 1, which is practically obligatory these days. From his program notes: What I began to witness years ago (as had my teacher [Leila Haller]) were aspects of "Swan Lake" inexplicably being changed, slowly and in small increments, and altered in successive productions. Iconographic moments I had come to cherish were disappearing bit by precious bit. Peterson admits that his focus is on the "surviving nucleus": the Ivanov acts. The rest he felt free to change--and did. At best he restores some favorite details of his, but the 1895 production it's not, nor is it anything like what Ratmansky did with Paquita or Sleeping Beauty. It's not terrible (except, perhaps, Act 3), but it's also not exceptional. Link to comment
kbarber Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Toer van Schayk is only "very modern" for very modern ballets. Dutch National's current Swan Lake is designed by him, and it isn't "very modern" at all: http://www.operaballet.nl/en/ballet/2014-2015/show/swan-lake Link to comment
sandik Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Toer van Schayk is only "very modern" for very modern ballets. Dutch National's current Swan Lake is designed by him, and it isn't "very modern" at all: http://www.operaballet.nl/en/ballet/2014-2015/show/swan-lake Those are some very elaborate costumes for the national dances! Link to comment
bingham Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Those are some very elaborate costumes for the national dances! He also did the latest RB Cinderella. Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Peterson may have staged other versions elsewhere but he's been working on a new-old version for DC. At least that's how the p.r. is being given. I wasn't expecting such a thing. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Yes, it's entirely possible this version by Peterson may be different from the one I saw three years ago, although the PR for that production also touted his commitment to history. The bit about the "damaged icon" was present then, too. Dilution of the known original text and my respect for it became the motivation in a decades-long search for technical, choreographic and stylistic truth in the hope of retrieving and preserving details quickly disappearing. Information gathered through the years from very experienced ballet professionals has been poured back into this production in the hope that it will be preserved for future generations. So many of the great artists and inheritors of that information whom I have spoken to, worked with and observed, are no longer with us. Ballet is a delicately ephemeral art whose tradition is in constant threat of being lost, particularly those few 19th century classics that have survived. It has been my sincere and fastidious quest to preserve those detailed and charming aspects of a 19th century heritage ballet. What is lovingly presented to you in this Swan Lake is an attempt at resuscitation and restoration of a great work of art. A window into the past somewhat subjectively presented to you by an obsessive researcher into technical, stylistic and kinetic detail and given a contemporary theatrical sensibility. Based on what I saw, Peterson’s desire for preservation is not universal. Evidently, whatever he considers unessential is open to being re-choreographed, which Washington Ballet acknowledged in the link Helene provided. But we'll know soon enough what the production is like. I hope you will be spared that third-act quartet of roughhousing young men. Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 He also did the latest RB Cinderella. Yes, Bingham! Now I recall. Quite pretty and traditional, although I prefer the David Walkers (what ABT now has). Link to comment
mussel Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 The new Lake will be a reconstruction, go to the last sentence: http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/June-2015/Bringing-the-Past-Alive- Link to comment
California Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 This is a co-production with La Scala, which will show it in June-July 2016: http://www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/opera-ballet/2015-2016/swan-lake.html Link to comment
sandik Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 So La Scala will have two big Ratmansky reconstructions! Link to comment
Balanchinomane Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 La Scala has issued many fine DVDs of its productions. Hopefully we will get recordings of these new works. That would be terrific. Link to comment
sandik Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 La Scala has issued many fine DVDs of its productions. Hopefully we will get recordings of these new works. That would be terrific. That would be a treat. Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Hopefully the DVD of Ratmansky's BEAUTY will be with ABT...not La Scala and yet another look at Zakharova. I vote for Boylston/Gorak/Abrera/Gomes-as-Carabosse DVD casting, please!!!! Link to comment
BalletFanCH Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 I am really excited to see Ratmanksy reconstruct Swan Lake here in Zürich. It is a fair reward for the company after an amazing season that has largely gone unnoticed. Ballett Zürich is also know for the release of many DVDs, so I personally hope that Zürich release it with principal and graceful swan Viktorina Kapitonova. Link to comment
Fosca Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Did the new director release any DVDs already? I thought that was Heinz Spoerli in the past... Link to comment
BalletFanCH Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Did the new director release any DVDs already? I thought that was Heinz Spoerli in the past... You are correct, it was Spörli previously. I would hope that the administration would see the benefit of also doing a DVD too. At least I can hope ;) Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 So La Scala will have two big Ratmansky reconstructions! Meanwhile, Mother Russia's Bolshoi still deals with Grigorovich horrible versions... Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Meanwhile, Mother Russia's Bolshoi still deals with Grigorovich horrible versions... Yes, it does, Cristian. Tipped Candelabri and all! Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Yes, it does, Cristian. Tipped Candelabri and all! Ohh, yes...that damned candelabra!! Link to comment
Natalia Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 The Zurich Opernhaus web is now showing that the designs will be by one of Ratmansky's frequent collaborators, Jerome Kaplan. So much for a true recon with Tsarist-era design visuals...sigh. Nonetheless, it will still be a treat to see the fruit of Ratmansky & team's research (Doug Fullington, for sure contributing). http://www.opernhaus.ch/en/activity/detail/schwanensee-06-02-2016-17454/ Link to comment
naomikage Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 La Scala will be touring to Paris with the new Ratmansky Swan Lake this November http://www.viparis.com/viparisFront/do/manifestation/palais-des-congres-paris/LAC+CYGNES+-+SCALA+MILAN=12927 Link to comment
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