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Beautiful La Bayadere in Vilnius

By on 1/10/10 • Categorized as Ballet


With a line of outstanding balletsoloists The Lithuanian National Ballet presented their delicious, old fashion, but new production of La Bayadere January 7th 2010 in a fantastic scenographis frame with beautiful costumes. Choreography Marius Petipa
. Stage choreographers Altynai Asylmuratova, Liudmila Kovaliova (Russia)
. Designer Viaceslav Okunev (Russia).

Anastasija Cumakova as La Bayadere with The Lithuanian National Ballet. Foto from the operahouse.

Anastasija Cumakova as La Bayadere with The Lithuanian National Ballet
. Foto from the operahouse.

In the leading roles we enjoyed Anastasija Cumakova beautiful in the titelrole, Romas Ceizaris as Soloras with great details and jumps and one of the primaballerinas Olga Konosenko virtuose as Gamzati. They all showed wonderful technical brilliance and very good stage appearance, and the audience loved it.

The orchestra conducted by Martynas Staskus played good, and I enjoyed the variated tempis that he was presenting, which told about a good contact with the dancers and good knowledge of the different parts. Without loosing any of the completenes of the performance.

 

Background information: (from The Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet.)

Petipa constructed his ballet La Bayadère on a strong Romantic base using his own type of classical aesthetic. There are several typical Romantic features in this ballet – India is an exotic country, a very suitable space of action for all romantics, taking part in the performance are the ethereal beings, the whole theme of the ballet is typically romantic – selfless, overwhelming bayadère Nikiya’s love, love as the highest meaning and expression of life. The essence of La Bayadère’s plot is classical Indian literature, namely Kalidasa’s drama Sakuntala and Goethe’s poem The God and the Bayadere. These poetic works served as basics for more than one creation – before M
. Petipa, such dramaturges as Augustin Eugène Scribe, Theofil Gautier, choreographers Charles Didelot, Filippo Taglioni and others, based their works on this special story
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