Carmen Ballet Zakharova Argumento
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.
Carmen Ballet Zakharova Argumento Con
PRIMA BALLERINA is a double portrait of two icons of contemporary Russian ballet. SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and ULYANA LOPATKINA from the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg are perhaps unmatched in today's ballet, and might be ranked amongst the greatest ballerinas of all time.
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.'