Classical Ballet Carmen Suite. Scheherazade World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for Carmen Suite. Scheherazade 2022
Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Composer: Georges Bizet
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
CARMEN SUITE one act ballet
Music by Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin Choreography by Alberto Alonso Production Choreographer: Viktor Barykin Production Designer: Boris Messerer Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
World premiere: 20 April 1967, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 19 April 2010
Running time: 45 minutes
Scheherezade
one act ballet
Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Scenario by Lйon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales
Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches: Lйon Bakst
The harem of Shah Shahryar. Shahryar, King of India and China, is angry because his brother Shakhezman has suggested that his wives are unfaithful to him. To test the harem Shahryar goes off on a hunting expedition. Almost as soon as the court has departed the wives adorn themselves in jewels and bribe the Chief Eunuch to open the three doors which lead to the quarters where the male slaves live. Two doors are opened and the Chief Eunuch is about to leave when Zobeide, Shahryar’s favourite wife, demands that the third door also be opened. The Eunuch warns her against this, but with further bribes and pleas she insists. The door is opened and a Negro slave leaps through it to Zobeide’s side. They fall entwined upon the divan. Food is brought in to musical accompaniment. Dancing begins, led by the Golden Slave, and Zobeide joins in. But Shahryar has returned unannounced and bursts in upon the orgy. Slaughter follows and the revellers are indiscriminately cut down. The Chief Eunuch is strangled. Shahryar kills Zobeide’s lover with his own hands. Only Zobeide remains. Preferring death to dishonour she faces the Shah and then, with a dagger she grabs from him, she takes her own life. Running time 45 minutes
Schedule for Carmen Suite. Scheherazade 2022
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About This Video 02:25 The Mariinsky Theatre has hosted the premiere of the ballet Carmen-Suite. In 1967 Alberto Alonso and Rodion Shchedrin created it for Maya Plisetskaya. Now, in April 2010, the legendary ballerina and the composer attended rehearsals and the first performance of Carmen-Suite. The role of the protagonist has been rehearsed by Ulyana Lopatkina, Yekaterina Kondaurova and Irma Nioradze. The role of Jose has been rehearsed by Danila Korsuntsev and Ilya Kuznetsov and the Torero by Yevgeny Ivanchenko. Viktor Barykin is the Production Choreographer. |
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