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Bizet-Shchedrin: Carmen Suite Ballet / The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / Maya Plesetskaya, Nicolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko / Packaging, design and DVD authoring © 2004 Video Artists International, Inc. / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 62 Minutes
UPC: 08994842949
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Classical
- Run time : 1 hour and 2 minutes
- Release date : September 28, 2004
- Actors : Maya Plisetskaya, Nicolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko
- Studio : Video Artists Int'L
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
Maria Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko, Bolshoi Ballet. Choregraphy by Alberto Alonso. Music by Bizet adapted by Rodion Schedrin. Bonuses of Plisetskaya in performance - "Dying Swan", "Raymonda Variations", Bach Prelude.
Carmen was first set as a ballet by the famed Russian choreographer Petipa in 1845. It was based on the Mérimée novella and premiered in Madrid some thirty years before Bizet's opera was first heard. Subsequent versions followed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some using and some discarding Bizet's music. In 1949, Roland Petit created a successful vehicle for himself and his wife Zizi Jeanmaire using the Bizet score.
Maya Plisetskaya always dreamed of dancing the role of Carmen and had approached Shostakovich for a score. He demurred out of respect for Bizet's celebrated opera. It was eventually Plisetskaya's husband Rodion Shchedrin who agreed to provide the music after seeing his wife and the choreographer Alberto Alonso working on some choreographic ideas. His Carmen Suite ballet, based on Bizet, and scored
only for strings and percussion instruments, was a perfect complement to Alonso's choreography and, in its theatricality, a showcase for Plisetskaya's considerable dramatic gifts. Shchedrin's Carmen Suite, one of the darkest settings of Mérimée's tragic story, deeply symbolic and overtly sensual, premiered at the Bolshoi Ballet on April 20, 1967.
BIZET-SHCHEDRIN
CARDIEN SUITE
Nikolai Fadeyechev Alexander Lavrenyuk Natalya Kasatkina
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
62 minutes, RUSSIA, 1969, Color, Mono
Program content © 1973 Corinth Films; © 1983 Corinth Films
Packaging, design and DVD authoring © 2004 Video Artists International, Inc.
Digital photo editing: Edward Cardona DVD production coordinator: Raymond Edwards
