Les sylphides (Chopiniana) : a choreographic suite to the music of Frederic Chopin / produced by Vladimir Grave ; directed by G. Samarkhina.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Samarkhina, G., director.

Grave, Vladimir, producer.

Bessmertnova, Natalia, 1941-2008, performer.

Kozlova, Galina, performer.

Kholina, Irina, performer.

Bogatyrëv, Aleksandr, performer.

Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849, composer.

Kopylov, Aleksandr, conductor.

Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Balet, performer.

Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Orkestr, performer.

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Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Ballets.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (38 min.) : sound, color NTSC ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Chopiniana

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : View Video, [1986]

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

stereo

VHS

Summary:

... celebrates the lyrical and poetic qualities of Romantic ballet blanc ... one of the revolutionary ballet of the 20th century; choreography of 'great works' was unheard of ... there were virtually no abstract, plotless works in the Russian repertoire"--Container.

Participant:

Performed by members of the Bolshoi Ballet: Natalia Bessmertnova, Galina Kozlova, Irina Kholina, Aleksandr Bogatyrëv, and others.

Music performed by the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater, conducted by Aleksandr Kopylov.

Credits:

Orchestration, Aleksandr Glazunov; choreography, Michel Fokine.

Notes:

Originally telecast on Soviet television in 1976.

ISBN:

0803012020

OCLC:

39806630