Evening of one-act ballets: The Cage. Carmen Suite. Forgotten Land.
The performance has 1 intermission Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes "Forgotten Land" Ballet in one act T the music of Sinfonia da requiem by Benjamin Britten Choreography: Jiří Kylián Set and Costume Design: John F. Macfarlane Lighting Design: Kees Tjebbes Premiere: November 2, 2017
"The Cage" Ballet in one act to music by Igor Stravinsky Choreography by Jerome Robbins © The Robbins Rights Trust Costume Designer: Ruth Sobotka Sets by Jean Rosenthal Music Director: Igor Dronov Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton Ballet Masters: Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Glenn Keenan Sets and Lighting Technical Coordination: Perry Silvey Costume Production Designer:Holly Hynes Рremiere: March 19, 2017. Running time: 14 minutes. Creation History Stravinsky composed his Concerto in D for String Orchestra in 1946, as a commission for the 20th anniversary of the Basler Orchestra; it was his first work for string orchestra since Apollon Musagète. The vivid, haunting composition features a shift between D major and minor throughout the work and a rich quality for the writing of the strings. Jerome Robbins used Stravinksy’s concerto for one of his early works, The Cage, which imagines a community of female creatures. In describing the ballet, Robbins said, “I did not have to confine myself to human beings moving in a way that we know is human. In the way their fingers worked, in the crouch of a body or the thrust of an arm, I could let myself see what I wanted to imagine.”
"The Cage" - one of the greatest ballets of Jerome Robbins. In 1951, when this ballet began his life, his furious rage embarrassed the critics. In Holland, the authorities even first banned it - as "pornographic." J. Homans, "Angels of Apollo" "Carmen Suite"Ballet in one act to music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Libretto Alberto Alonso based on the story Carmen by Prospero Merime
Choreographer Alberto Alonso Designer: Boris Messerer Music Director: Pavel Sorokin Assistant to Choreographer: Sonia Calero Alonso Lighting designer: Alexander Rubtsov
For the first time entered the repertory of the Bolshoi Theatre on April 20, 1967. Revived on November 18, 2005. Running time: 50 minutes. An evening of one-act ballets Age category 16+ Synopsis- Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet written in 1967 by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, based on a libretto and choreographed by Alberto Alonso. The music, taken from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and arranged for strings and percussion, is not a 19th century pastiche but rather "a creative meeting of the minds," as Shchedrin put it, with Bizet's melodies reclothed in a variety of fresh instrumental colors (including the frequent use of percussion), set to new rhythms and often phrased with a great deal of sly wit. Initially banned by the Soviet hierarchy as "disrespectful" to the opera for precisely these qualities, the ballet has since become Shchedrin's best-known work and has remained popular in the West as what reviewer James Sanderson of allmusic.com calls "an iconoclastic but highly entertaining retelling of Bizet's opera." | |||||
