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Arts Calendar / June 18 / Ballet
19:00 Giselle
Adolphe Adam's ballet in two acts. Production by Yuri Grigorovich. Libretto by Theophile Gautier, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. Choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius. Choreographic version:Yuri Grigorovich. Designer: Simon Virsaladze. Music Director: Alexander Kopylov. This antique ballet was created in the XIX century and still remains one of the crown jewels of the Bolshoy theatre repertoire. The masterpiece of classical romantic choreography came to be in 1841 thanks mostly to immeasurable talents of Carlotta Grizi, a ballerina equally adored by poet and writer Théophile Gautier, librettist Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, choreographers Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot and composer Adolphe Adan, who created the ballet together as a token of their shared fascination. The story of love that triumphs over death was danced by many great dancers and ballerinas of the world, and to this day remains an inspiration to ballet stars the world over, including principles of the Bolshoy.
Bolshoi Theater 
15:00 Theater HD Live in Cinema: Lady of the Camellias
Ballet production. Russia, 176 min. Ballet by John Neumeier in three acts with a prologue to music by Frederic Chopin after the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas. Choreography, staging and light - John Neumeier. Sets and costumes - Jurgen Rose. Music Director - Pavel Sorokin. John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias, a big, narrative ballet set to original concert music by Chopin is based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas junior, written in 1848. The story is based on true events in the author's life when, at the age of 20, he fell in love with Marie Duplessis who was to die at the age of 23. Like the George Cukor film starring Greta Garbo and Verdi's La Traviata with Maria Callas before it, it is a masterpiece. Marguerite Gautier is a famous Parisian courtesan who falls in love with Duval when they are introduced at a performance of Manon Lescaut. Stricken by tuberculosis, she goes to live in the country where her young lover comes to join her. But their idyll is broken by his father who comes to plead with Marguerite that her liaison with his son is compromising the family honour. He demands she leave Armand to protect his daughter's reputation. Suffocated by the society she lives in as much as by a physical disease, Marguerite, heartbroken, returns to her old way of life. Armand, believing himself spurned, only learns the depth of her devotion when reading her diary after she has died in poverty, rejected by her former friends. The choreography, rich and inventive, is outstanding from beginning to end while the dramatic intensity is sustained in a whole series of sublime pas de deux. Whether it be in the slightest movement of the hand or the merest glance, Neumeier, choreographer poet, has exactly the right gesture for every shade of emotion.
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