Music is provided by Yehudi Menuhin (violin obbligato) and James Levine with the American Symphony Orchestra. The footage is taken from the PBS Gala of Stars 1982 with Upgraded Sound.
Recuerdo verle bailar esta variacion por primera vez cuando hizo en Canada su Bella Durmiente con Veronica Tennant. La musica de Tchaikovsky maravillosa. Este video es una joya.❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏👏
I took my girlfriend, now my wife of 44 years, to see Nureyev in his own version of Romeo and Juliet at the London Coliseum in 1977. I'd never been to the ballet before and knew next to nothing about it but was completely blown away by his charisma, strength and dramatic energy.
Frederick Ashton choreographed a pas de deux to this same music with much more memorable results (in my opinion) than these Nureyev is doing, to me his dancing here doesn't seem driven by the music at all and Nureyev seems to be improvising, not to great success... I believe this music isn't actually danced to in most productions of The Sleeping Beauty, as the name (Entr'acte) suggests, it music for between acts, with the curtain down. When I've seen it, there is an intermission between scenes of Act II and this is played after the audience returns, but before the dancing for the Scene 2 awakening actually starts, I know different productions can do it differently. It is amazing to me how much beautiful music Tchaikovsky packed into The Sleeping Beauty.
i agree about Ashton's pdd - curiously i remember it being criticized in the grounds of not being part of the original chore. now that criticism has faded
I'm sorry, but Menuhin out-shined Nureyev here. The choreo, whether it was improvised or planned(that makes it worse) just isn't good and that killed the performance. Did Nureyev listen to the music before he came on stage?
Can we just agree the man was a phenomenal performer/stage presence, in his 20s and 30s a wonderful dancer, but a very mediocre choreographer. That major companies (like POB) continue to perform his awful versions of classics is just bizarre.
i agree about Nureyev. curiously Ninette de Valois said his 'Nutcracker' for the Royal Ballet was "one of the best things i've seen in years". i think it had merit
Le parecerá extraño, pero la Ópera de París siempre pone las coreografias de Nureyev, pero nos gustan y las entradas están vendidas meses antes de la presentación. Para gustos se han hecho los colores. A mi personalmente me encantan, y cuando se venden todas las entradas, supongo que mucha gente está de acuerdo conmigo.
@@isabeldiezlangre9411 Me gustó su tarea, ya que Ninette de Valois dijo que su 'Cascanueces' fue "la mejor obra que había visto en años" y estoy de acuerdo con ella.
Yo también estoy de acuerdo con Ninette de Valois, El Cascanueces es maravilloso. Las coreografías de Nureyev hay que saber entenderlas, tienen un fondo psicológico, y además son difíciles de bailar. A mi me encantan.
@@JohnRaymondHall I think the reason his Nutcracker was applauded was it was the first one in the west totally built on Vainonen's version at the Kirov. Just my opinion, having Drosselmeyer and the prince danced by the same person smells more of Rudi having to completely dominate all the male dancing than any great attempt at psychology.
