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ballet


compilations or telecasts
starring various artists:


The Astonishing Moiseyev
Dance Co., Vol 1 & 2


Moiseyev: His World of Dance

Vincente Fernández Flamenco Co.
From Granada to Jerez

Art of the Pas de Deux

 all-star compliation
Art of the Pas de Deux, Vol. 2
all-star compilation
Art of the Pas de Deux, Vol. 3
all-star compilation

Pas de Deux
McBride, Olsen, others

Great Stars of Russian Ballet, Vol 1 & 2

Great Stars of Russian Ballet, Vol. 3 & 4

Stars of the Russian Ballet
Ulanova, Plisetskaya,
Sergeyev, Zhdanov

Nina Ananiashvili
& Int'l Stars, Vol. 1


Nina AnaniashviliI
& Int'l Stars, Vol. 2


compilations
& documentary
- alphabetically by artist:

Alonso
, Alicia
Prima Ballerina Assoluta

Bruhn, Erik
Bell Telephone Hour

Bujones, Fernando
with Cynthia Gregory, Live

Chauviré
, Yvette
France's Ballerina Assoluta

d’Amboise
, Jacques
Portrait of a Great
American Dancer

Fracci,
Carla
An Evening with

Gregory,
Cynthia
with Fernando Bujones, Live

Limón
, José
Three Modern Ballets

Loudières, Monique
Comme les Oiseaux - A Portrait

Malakhov, Vladimir
True Prince

Maximova, Ekaterina
Katia & Volodia

Nureyev
, Rudolph
Bell Telephone Hour

Plisetskaya, Maya

Plisetskaya Dances

with Vasiliev,
Begak, Liepa
Swan Lake
with Bogatirev
The Seagull
with Bogatirev

A Portrait


Tallchief, Maria
Art of

Vasiliev, Vladimir
Katia & Volodia

Verdy,
Violette

Violette & Mr. B.
The Artist Teacher

Alphabetically by Ballet


Anna Karenina

Plisetskaya, Godunov
Anna Karenina
Plisetskaya, Petukhov,

Anyuta
Maximova, Vasiliev

Le Baiser de la Fée
Yatsenko, Malakhov

Carmen Suite Ballet
Plisetskaya, Fadeyechv,
Radchenko

Checkmate
Barbieri, Ashmole, Bintley,
others

Cinderella
Fonteyn, Somes,
Ashton, MacMillan

Don Quixote
Ananiashvili, Fadeyechev
Don Quixote
Pavlova, Gordeev. others

Enchantress, The
Zyryanova, Stepanov, Korzhakova,
Valyuta

Excelsior
Fracci, Bortoluzzi, Razzi, Telloli

Gaîté Parisienne
Danilova, Franklin, Danielian


Gayne
Tuisova, Rumyantsev

Giselle
Kain, Augystyn

Giselle
Nureyev, Fracci
Giselle
Alonso, Vasiliev

Little Humpbacked Horse, The
Plisetskaya, Vasiliev

Lieutenant Kijé
Vasiliev, Struchkova

Marco Spada
Nureyev, Thesmar

Masquerade
Dolgushin, Smirnova, others

Mediterranea
Murro, Sutera, Carbone

Petrushka
Semenyaka, Elagin

Rakes Progress
Morse, Katrak, Reeder, others

Raymonda
Kolpakova, Berezhnoi

Rite of Spring
Galimullin, Tsoi

Romeo and Juliet
Maximova, Vasiliev
Romeo and Juliet
Ulanova, Zhdanov

Seagull
Plisetkskaya, Bogatirev

Sleeping Beauty
Nureyev, Tennant

Sleeping Beauty

Fonteyn, Somes, Ashton

Spartacus
Vasiliev, Bessmertnova, Liepa
Spartacus
Vasiliev, Maximova, Liepa

Stone Flower
Maximova, Vasiliev

Swan Lake
Ananiashvili, Fadeyechev
Swan Lake
Plisetskaya, Fadeyechev

Swan Lake
Plisetskaya, Bogatirev

Massine's Symphonie Fantastique
starring:
Erik Bruhn, Toni Lander,
and Stanley Williams
Royal Danish Ballet, 1948


Trapeze / Fragments of a Biography
Maximova, Vasiliev, Liepa,
Timofeyeva, Aleksei Fadeyechev,
and others.

 

Masquerade (Khachaturian)
VAI DVD 4515 $34.95

The ballet Masquerade is a rarity. The Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) originally conceived the evocative score as incidental music for a 1941 production of Mikhail Lermontov’s play of the same name. The ballet, following Lermontov’s drama, tells the tragic tale of a bracelet lost at a masked ball which leads Arbenin to wrongly accuse his wife Nina of infidelity. Despite her protestations of innocence, Arbenin poisons her, only to learn that she was guiltless. The 1985 filmed production presented here makes full use of cinematic techniques to convey the ambiguity of sinister stratagems lurking at the fringes of a swirling masquerade ball, while Khachaturian’s music – in particular the famous Waltz and the wistful Nocturne – provides the perfect accompaniment to the inventive choreography. Soloists, Corps de ballet, Orchestra and Chorus of the Alexander Spendaryan State Academy Opera and Ballet Theatre; Hakob Ter-Voskanian, conductor. 63 minutes, Color, mono, 4:3, All regions

Masquerade
Music by Aram Khachaturian
Libretto by L. Vilkovskaya, M. Dolgopolov, N. Rizhenko, V. Smirnov-Golovanov
Music arranged and edited by E. Oganessian
Choreography by N. Rizhenko and V. Smirnov-Golovanov

Cast:
Arbenin: Nikita Dolgushin
Nina: Svetlana Smirnova
Prince Zvezdich: Sergei Baranov
Baroness Shtral: Natalia Barisheva
Shprikh: Alexander Koreniak
The Stranger: Raphael Avnikian

Soloists, Corps de ballet, Orchestra and Chorus of
Alexander Spendaryan State Academy Opera and Ballet Theatre
Hakob Ter-Voskanian, conductor
1985

 

 

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