Classical Ballet Evening of one-act ballets: Concerto DSCH. Infra. World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre)
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets: Concerto DSCH. Infra. 2022
Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky Choreography: Wayne McGregor
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Infra.Choreography
by Wayne McGregor Music
by Max Richter
Set
Designer: Julian Opie Costume
Designer: Moritz Junge Lighting
Designer: Lucy Carter Sound
Designer: Chris Ekers Coaches: Miranda Lind, Antoine Vereecken
Concerto
DSCH.
Music
by Dmitry Shostakovich Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky Assistant
Choreographer: Tatiana Ratmanskaya Lighting
Designer: Mark Stanley Costume
Designer: Holly Hynes
Premiere:
28 May 2008, New York State Theater, New
York Premiere
at the Mariinsky Theatre: 4 July 2013
Dmitri Shostakovich was a fan of ballet and
composed numerous dance scores in the 1930s, including The Bolt andThe Bright
Stream. Alexei Ratmansky has choreographed both of those works
for the Bolshoi Ballet, and for New York City Ballet's 2008
spring season, Ratmansky created another work to a score by
Shostakovich, this time the Piano Concerto No. 2. Shostakovich wrote
the concerto in 1957 as a birthday gift for his 19-year-old
son Maxim, and it displays the composer's optimistic energy after
the repressions of the Stalinist era. The opening allegro
evokes a brisk military march with the piano referencing
the British melody Drunken
Sailor. By contrast, the andante movement basks in Russian
soulfulness for the strings, piano, and solo horn. The brief,
invigorating allegro finale takes on a 7/8 meter as the entire
orchestra sprints to the finish. The ballet's title refers
to a musical motif used by Shostakovich to represent himself,
with four notes that, when written in German notation, stand
in for his initials in the German spelling
(D. Sch.).
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets: Concerto DSCH. Infra. 2022
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