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CAST:
Vladimir
Ponomarev (Don
Quixote)
Anton Lukovkin (Sancho Panza)
Igor Petrov (Lorenzo)
Olesia Novikova (Kitri)
Leonid Sarafanov (Basil)
Vladimir Lepeev (Gamache)
Andrei Merkuriev (Espada)
Yekaterina Kondaurova (Street dancer)
Yana Selina, Yana
Serebriakova
(Flower-sellers)
Alina Somova (Queen of the Dryads)
Yevgenia Obraztsova (Cupid)
Galina Rakhmanova (Mercedes)
Alexander Efremov (The tavern owner)
Polina Rassadina, Nikolai
Zubkovsky
(Gypsy dance)
Ti Yon Riu (Oriental dance)
Elena Bazhenova, Karen Ioannisyan
(Fandango)
Olga Esina (Variation)
PRODUCTION:
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreographer:
Alexander Gorsky
after Marius Petipa
Conductor:
Pavel Bubelnikov
Scenographer:
Alexander Golovin
and Konstantin
Korovin
Costume Designer:
Konstantin Korovin
Lighting:
Igor Suvorov
Running time: 120 minutes
Photos:
© N. Razina
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The most well-known and resilient
adaptation of Don Quixote is
that of Russian choreographer,
Marius
Petipa, that
first premiered in
1869. Alexander
Gorsky revitalized the work in a
1902 performance including the
famous Anna Pavlova, who danced the
role of the street dancer and
eventually was responsible for
bringing the piece to the West in
1924. The ballet became a staple of
the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet and
Leningrad Kirov Ballet's repertoire
and was regularly modified as it was
restaged.
Don Quixote is a ballet known
for its colorful characters that
portray their personalities and
emotions through distinct
choreography. Petipa's version of
Don Quixote, to the music of
Minkus, is the standard ballet
version of the tale and features the
popular virtuoso pas de deux that
has been performed countless times
as a concert piece.
"This
Kirov production of 'Don
Quixote'
always gives me infinite pleasure. I
enjoy every time the play performed
in front of the Don by the Vaganova
Academy students before the windmill
scene. The students were also
delightful as the twelve cupids
framing the corps de ballet in the
dream scene."
-Ballet
Magazine
"Sarafanov
was technically invincible from
start to finish, and strongly
partnered Novikova. He is without
doubt one of the most brilliant male
virtuosos in the world now.
Sarafanov was breathtaking in his
impeccable series of double tours en
l'air alternating with multiple
pirouettes in the grand pas de deux,
and his grands jetes en manege."
-Ballet
Magazine
"Sensationally
spirited…classical ballet at its
most free and joyous!"
-San
Francisco Chronicle |
