The Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky [DVD]

The Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky [DVD]

Disk Condition: Great 

Works & Soloists

Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff - Scheherazade (excerpts).

Scheherazade: Svetlana Zakharova

Shah: Vladimir Ponomarev.

Golden Slave: Farukh Ruzimatov

Carl Maria von Weber - "Le spectre de la rose" from "Invitation to

Tanz"

Young Girl: Zhanna Akupova

Le spectre: Igor Kolb.

Alexander Borodin - "Polovetzer Dances" from "Prince Igor"

The Polowetzer: Islom Baimuadov.

Slave: Elena Bazhenova.

Polina Rassadina's Girl

Igor Stravinsky "The Firebird"

Firebird: Diana Vishneva

Ivan: Andrei G. Yakovlev

Princess: Yana Serebriankova

Mud disk: Vladimir Ponomarev.

Choreography

Mikhail Fokine

Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine & Andris Liepa

"Musician"

Choir and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater

Artistic Direction: Valery Gergiev

"Director"

Video directed by Ross MacGibbon

"Recording"

2002 - Theatre Musical de Paris - Chatelet

Nijinsky

This production is a tribute to the "clown of God": to dance and otherwise he was not born, said a contemporary about dancer Waslaw Nijinsky. Gifted with enormous bounce and outstanding sensitivity, the genius was transfigured into a legend, to the being "half man, half God"; the dancer and choreographer born in Kiev in 1889 described himself in his diary records. When he died in London in 1950, he had spent over 30 years almost uninterrupted in hospitals - yet Nijinsky's fame has never faded. With these recordings of today, the famous Kirov ballet recalls his sensational performances in the choreographies Mikhail Fokines, with whom Nijinsky had simply collaborated congenially.