6/7 Gala - "The Little Humpbacked Horse" Under-water scene (1/2)
Part 6/7 from Yuri Burlaka's marvelous gala "The Golden Age of the Russian Imperial Ballet" ("Золотой век ру��кого император�кого балета") staged for the Chelyabinsk State Ballet. Performed at the Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera & Ballet Theatre of M.I. Glinka on December 24, 2008. **If anyone knows the cast of this performance please contact me! --Choreography after Alexander Gorsky (1912) , Marius Petipa (1895) & Arthur Saint-Léon (1864) --Music by Cesare Pugni, Riccardo Drigo & Boris Asafiev This divertissement is extracted from the so-called "Under-Water Scene" of Arthur Saint-Léon's 1864 ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse". It takes place during Act IV/Scene 1, when the protaganists Ivanushka & the Humpbacked Horse travel to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in order to search for the Tsar Maiden's lost ring. **Music by Cesare Pugni, unless otherwise noted - 1. Introduction 2. Variation of the White Pearl 3. Dance of two Red Corals 4. Variation of the Ocean Genie (Boris Asafiev. From a supplemental Pas de six he wrote for the ballet in 1920s) 5. Valse (originally intended as a "Dance of the Jelly Fishes") 6. Variation of the White Pearl (Ludwig Minkus. Variation for Anna Johansson from Petipa's 1892 revival of Perrot's "La Naïade et le pêcheur", aka "Ondine") **History - Arthur Saint-Léon's 1864 ballet "Le Petit cheval bossu, ou La Tsar-Demoiselle" ("The Little Humpbacked Horse, or The Tsar Maiden") was based on Pyotr Yershov's celebrated poem "Конек-горбунок" ("Konyok-gorbunok", meaning "Hunchback Horse"). The ballet was intended by Saint-Léon to rival the success of Marius Petipa's 1862 "The Pharaoh's Daughter". The ballet was a massive success, with its fantastical tableaux set on an enchanted Isle of mermaids, or another set in a magical Under-water world. The ballet's final act included a Grand divertissement celebrating the many peoples of the Russian Empire. Cesare Pugni's music was equally successful, & was heard at Imperial Balls for decades thereafter. "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was revived by Marius Petipa under the title "The Tsar Maiden" in 1895 for his Prima ballerina assoluta Pierina Legnani. In 1901, Alexander Gorsky staged his own production for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, & in 1912 he brought this version to the Mariinsky Theatre, featuring the great Tamara Karsavina as the Tsar Maiden. For his 1912 edition at the Mariinsky Theatre, Gorsky added several pieces, including the famous pas de trois "The Ocean & the Pearls" (seen in clip 2/2) to music extracted from Riccardo Drigo's score for Petipa's "La Perle" (or "Чуде�на� жемчужина", meaning "The Miraculous Pearl"). "La Perle" was a grand piece d'occasion staged especially for the celebration gala held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in honor of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II & Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1896. Just like the scene featured in the clips shown here, "La Perle" was also set in an enchanted under-water place. The libretto was based on the ballet tableau "La Pérégrina" from Verdi's opera "Don Carlos", & told the story of how the Earth Genie attempts to abduct the White Pearl, causing a colossal battle of the elements of Earth & Sea. The Saint-Léon/Petipa version of "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was the first ballet performed by Diaghilev's original Ballet Russes. Gorsky's version served as the basis for all subsequent revivals in Russia, but over time, the ballet became a shadow of the grand spectacle it once was. Like so many other ballets from the 19th century, it was survived only by its most celebrated passages. For some time the Vaganova Academy included a severely abridged version, but it has not been performed since ca. 1989. In 1960, Alexander Radunsky choreographed his own version to a score by Rodion Shchedrin for the Bolshoi Ballet, with the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya as the Tsar Maiden. Recently, Alexei Ratmansky staged his own version at the Mariinsky Ballet to Schedrin's music. The Sergeyev Collection at Harvard University includes choreographic notation of the Imperial Ballet's production. It seems that the notation was created over the course of many years & includes documentation of not only Petipa's version but also Gorsky's 1912 edition. The complete music is also in the archives & includes many of the additional pieces added to Pugni's score by Petipa & his successors.
Auteur : mrlopez2681
Tags : Little, Humpbacked, Horse, Under, water, scene, Pugni, Petipa, Saint-Leon, Drigo, Yuri, Burlaka, Goden, Age, Russian, Chelyabinsk, Yershov, Золотой, век, ру��кого, император�кого, балета
Durée : 436 secondes
Vues : 7792