Best Attractions & Things to do in Perm, Permsky District
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List of Best Things to do in Perm
Perm State Art Gallery
At The Bridge Theater
The Legend of Perm Bear
Perm Opera and Ballet House named after Tchaikovsky
Permyak - the Salty Ears
Motovilikhinskiy Plant History Museum
Recreational Gorky Park
Art Object Schastye ne za Gorami
Perm Local History Museum
State Independent Cultural Institution of Perm Krai Memorial of Political Repressions
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Giselle at the National Concert Hall 28th and 29th June
The greatest of all Romantic ballets, Monica Loughman's production of Marius Petipa's classic is a tale of betrayal, supernatural spirits and love that transcends death. This popular family ballet has been performed to full houses across Ireland in recent years and was attended by the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins in Galway in 2011.
The role of Giselle will be danced by golden cross of the stage winner and principal of Lithuanian National Opera Ballet, Olga Konosenko. The coveted role of Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, will be performed by Irish ballet artist, Leanne Sexton.
Giselle is a peasant girl who in Act One has fallen in love with Count Albrecht, who has led her to believe that he is a villager named Loys. Her discovery of his true identity has devastating consequences. Act two plunges the audience into an eerie moonlit forest haunted by the ethereal Wilis -- vengeful spirits of young brides who died before their wedding day.
Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. It transformed the dance world when it was first performed in Paris in 1841 and remains at the centre of the classical repertory. Monica Loughman's production uses Marius Petipa's classic version, which was first staged in St Petersburg in 1884. Her style of choreography is classically Russian and comes from her years as principal ballerina of the Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet where she went as a child to train at the age of 14.
Giselle is the perfect way to discover classical ballet.
Giselle is a love story that transcends all other ballets and it is one of the most magnificent ballets in the classical repertoire. Suitable for young and old alike, this classical ballet will inspire and enchant you like no other.
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Il'yich Khachaturianɾˈjɑn]; 6 June 1903 – 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
Born and raised in Tbilisi, the multicultural capital of Georgia, Khachaturian moved to Moscow in 1921 following the Sovietization of the Caucasus. Without prior music training, he enrolled in the Gnessin Musical Institute, subsequently studying at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Nikolai Myaskovsky, among others. His first major work, the Piano Concerto, popularized his name within and outside the Soviet Union. It was followed by the Violin Concerto and the Cello Concerto. His other significant compositions include the Masquerade Suite, the Anthem of the Armenian SSR, three symphonies, and around 25 film scores. Khachaturian is best known for his ballet music—Gayane and Spartacus. His most popular piece, the Sabre Dance from Gayane, has been used extensively in popular culture and has been covered by a number of musicians worldwide. His style is characterized by colorful harmonies, captivating rhythms, virtuosity, improvisations, and sensuous melodies.
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Choreographic School of Rudolph Nureyev, Ufa, Russia
Performance, March 31, 2012
The Nutcracker – The Waltz of the Snowflakes (The Royal Ballet)
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The Royal Ballet performs the Waltz of the Snowflakes in The Nutcracker, with Meaghan Grace Hinkis as Clara, Ricardo Cervera as the Nutcracker and Gary Avis as Drosselmeyer, recorded in 2012. Find out more at:
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without this seasonal favorite, in which a young girl's enchanted present leads her on a wonderful adventure.
In this recording The Royal Ballet performs the Waltz of the Snowflakes in The Nutcracker, with Meaghan Grace Hinkis as Clara, Ricardo Cervera as the Nutcracker and Gary Avis as Drosselmeyer, accompanied by the London Oratory Junior Choir and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conducted by Koen Kessels, recorded in 2012.
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker score was commissioned by the director of the Russian Imperial Theatres, following the resounding success of Sleeping Beauty in 1890. Marius Petipa created the scenario – based on a fairytale by E. T. A. Hoffman – and Lev Ivanov provided the choreography. The Nutcracker was first performed in 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. It initially had a poor reception, but its combination of enchanting choreography and an unforgettable score have since made it one of the best-loved of all ballets.
In Peter Wright's classic production, the stage sparkles with theatrical magic – a Christmas tree grows before our eyes, toy soldiers come to life to fight the villainous Mouse King and Clara is whisked to the Land of Sweets on a golden sleigh. Tchaikovsky's score contains some of the best-known melodies in ballet, from the flurrying sounds of the Waltz of the Snowflakes to the dream-like Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the vigorous Russian Dance. Julia Trevelyan Oman's designs draw upon 19th-century images of Christmas, making this a classic production for the festive season.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Nina Kaptsova - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / 2010
P.TCHAIKOVSKY - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet 2010 / Life Extract
On Sale Kirov Mariinsky Ballerina Dumchenko Vaganova Years More Than 1 Hour 2nd Year Ballet Class
This is the first of 3 videos entitled, Ballerina Maya Dumchenko. On sale now is Part 1 called The Vaganova Years (more than 2.5 hours long). This video can be puchased at WWW.RUSSIANBALLETVIDEOS.COM for $ 29.99. The actual video on sale has no russianballetvideos.com. So the video that you will buy has no writing in any corner. The website shopping cart will be corrected on Sunday evening, so please pay for the 1985 Moscow Ballet competition, prior to Sunday, and every order will receive an e-mail to confirm that the Maya Dumchenko video is being purchased and not the 1985 Moscow Ballet competition.
The video is divided into several parts
1. Sleeping Beauty Act 1 Garland Dance and Rose Adagio, ending at the collapse of Aurora leading to her 100 year old sleep. This part shows Maya Dumchenko at the front of the Vaganoav students and can be seen very clearly. THe Rose adagio, variation and coda are performed by Altynai Asylmuratova.
2. This part features Maya Dumchenko dancing with her fellow Vaganova students in Paquita, in both a Vaganova school performance and with the Kirov Ballet as a student.
3. This part has Maya dancing as a Vaganova student in 2 different performances of the Dream Scene from act 2 of Don Quixote
4. This part has Maya dancing in Class Concert with the Vaganova school and also has her holding the hand of then Vaganova school director, Konstantin Sergeyev , as they come out of the wings to accept applause at the end of a Vaganova school performance.
5. More than one hour of Maya Dumchenko in one Vaganova school second year class
6. More than 20 minutes of Maya Dumchenko in her 8th year graduating class exam in classical ballet, shortly before joining the Kirov Ballet
7. Maya Dumchenko 8th year graduation exam in acting with Romeo & Juliet being the ballet tested for acting. The following year, Galina Ulanova came from the Bolshoi Ballet to coach, where she began her career at the Kirov, Maya Dumchenko in the first cast role of Juliet which was her acting role in her final graduation acting exam.
8. Maya Dumchenko in her dressing room, prior to the Vaganova school Graduation performances, with her fellow graduating students, backstage.
9. Maya dances at the Kirov Theatre for her graduation performance in the act 3 pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty
10. The video concludes with the conclusion of her Vaganova Years, when she competed in the prestigious Vaganova Prix, winning first prize over a younger dancer, named Svetlana Zakharova , the second prize winner.
Fragments of all these sections will be shown on youtube.
Remember that to purchase this more than 2.5 hour video, go to WWW.RUSSIANBALLETVIDEOS.COM and since the website shopping cart will not be finished until Sunday evening, please pay for the 1985 Moscow Ballet competition and an e-mail will be sent to confirm that the Maya Ducmhenko video is being purchased.
ARTEM GOLUBEV - Vladimir Igorevich - Borodin from opera Prince Igor
ARTEM GOLUBEV - Vladimir Igorevich - Medlenno den' ugasal... Borodin from opera Prince Igor , Duet of Vladimir Igorevich and Konchakovna.
Libretto by Alexander Borodin with the help of Vladimir Stasov based on the Ancient Russian epic of XIIth centuryThe Lay of Igor's Host
The opera was written in 1890. The scenography of this version was replicate the scenography of the 1890-year production in Mariinsky Theatre. This version was first performed in Perm in 2015. Running time: 3 hours 50 minutes including 2 intervals
One of the pillars of the classics of Russian opera, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, is based on an historical subject, taken from the monument of Russian literature The Tale of Igor’s Campaignor The Lay of Igor’s Host, and tells the story of the failed raid of Igor Svyatoslavich against the Polovtsians. The Prince is taken prisoner by the Khan Konchak. Despite numerous attempts by Igor’s enemies to gain the favour of his wife, Yaroslavna, the Princess remains true to her husband and soon awaits his happy return home.
Borodin’s unfinished work was completed after his death by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. The opera was premiered in 1890 in the Mariinsky Theatre, and it is to this production that the artistic company of the Perm premiere refers in 2015.
For the director Sigrid T’Hooft, famous primarily as an expert in historical theatrical reconstruction, the conductor Valery Platonov, an authority on Russian musical heritage, and the artist Stephan Dietrich, a superb stylist who thoughtfully works with visual documents from different epochs, the important task is not to produce direct replications but to get as close as possible to the aesthetic of operatic theatre of the end of the nineteenth century
1/4 [Eng Subtitle] Tsarine de la Danse - Zakharova Documentary
*** The translation may not be 100% right. I translate this together with a friend of mine, who had learnt Frence before, and the google translator. My grammar may also have some defect. The content should be easy to understand, 80-90%, if not 100%.***
Svetlana Zakharova, Documentary (2007-26 ') realization of Laurent Gentot. Born in Lutsk in Ukraine in 1979, Svetlana Zakharova was first studied dance at the School of Kiev. After earning a second prize in 1995 with her interpretation of pas de deux of the Blue Bird International Competition for Young Dancers in St. Petersburg (Price Vaganova), she immediately joined the Vaganova Academy (class of Yelena Yevteyeva) Kirov Ballet and the summer of 1996, just seventeen years. The following year she was named Star Dancer. During his first season with the Kirov Ballet and guided by the experience of Olga Moiseyeva she has incorporated in its directory The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Chopiniana works of Balanchine. Svetlana Zakharova has toured the world with the Kirov Ballet, notably the United Kingdom, the United States, in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia and Japan. Since 2001 she performed frequently as guest with many companies in the world (Rio, Tokyo, Munich, Paris, Rome). In December 2001 she danced with the Ballet de l'Opera de Paris on the role of Nikiya in La Bayadere, version of Rudolf Nureyev. She won the 1999 Golden Mask Award (best interpretation of a female role in ballet) for her performance in Balanchine's Serenade and 2000 for her portrayal of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. (And she was nominated in 1998 for Giselle and in 2002 for Now and Then.) Zakharova has also received the 1997 Special Prize of Hope Our Baltika in St. Petersburg in 2001 and the Special Prize awarded to persons born in St Petersburg its success in the ballet. Svetlana Zakharova has joined the Bolshoi Ballet during the summer of 2003. Often inaccessible, it is difficult to have access to their rehearsals, interviews or very intimate and touching as well as those drawn Gentot Lawrence. In addition, it has also been able to make shots in the two largest temples of the Russian Ballet, the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Kirov in St Petersburg. It is certainly the last footage shot in these mythical places, as the Kirov Ballet is closde for three years for renovation ...
Yulia Stepanova 2007 Vaganova Graduation Performance The Stream
The greatest variation, Yulia Stepanova ever danced as a Vaganova student, was this variation from The Stream in the 2007 Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet graduation performances. 2007 was a difficult year for the 8th year students, Yulia was a 7th year student, because in 2007, The Vaganova Academy decided to add a 9th year course to graduate, resulting in no graduating class for 2007 and forcing dancers like Anastasia Nikitina, Vasily Tkachenko, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Ilya Petrov, Ksenia Romashova, Olga Belik, Lilia Lishchuk and Svetlana Spilatova , to wait until 2008 before being allowed to enter the Mariinsky Ballet and be greeted by a new director, Yuri Fateyev, who had no say in choosing which of the 2008 graduates would be invited by Mariinsky Ballet because Vaziev was ballet director when all; the class exams were given and Vaziev made the decisions. Fateyev entered as director, having no say in who had been chosen from the school and which he soon proved, to have no faith in young dancers' abilities , resulting in few solo roles, despite having had one more year of schooling than all previous graduation classes.Over his few years, Fateyev has proven incapable of making reliable decisions on which dancers to be given solo and principal roles with Yulia Stepanova and Oxana Skorik being the two perfect examples of the incompetence of Yuri Fateyev to decide who to cast. Yulia has wasted her career under Fateyev's ongoing casting mistakes and the Perm movie star has been personally coached by Fateyev at the recent 2013 International Moscow Ballet Competition with no other Mariinsky ballerinas allowed by Fateyev to compete against this inferior ballerina , who will now be first cast Odetter/Odile in Italy and China with Prima Ballerina, Ulyana Lopatkina as second cast Odette/Odile. The Mariinsky Ballet casting decisions of Yuri Fateyev are beyond absurd with the greatest ballerina ever born, Yulia Stepanova , wasting her vital early years, primarily in corps de ballet roles and character roles, while the Perm movie star with no talent in anything, stumbles around and cannot act, but gets first cast Odette/Odile plus almost every classical principal role in the Mariisnky Ballet repertoire.
Ballet Dance Class Russia
Russian Ballet Companies
The first ballet company was the Imperial School of Ballet in St. Petersburg in the 1740s. The Ballets Russes was a ballet company founded in the 1909 by Sergey Diaghilev, an enormously important figure in the Russian ballet scene. The headquarters of his ballet company was located in Paris, France. A protégé of Diaghilev, George Balanchine, founded the New York City Ballet in 1948. Today, the Kirov Ballet company (now known as the Mariinsky Ballet) and the Bolshoi company are two world-renowned Russian ballet companies that tour the world.
Mariinsky Ballet (formerly Kirov ballet)
Bolshoi Ballet
Other Russian ballet companies include:
Ballets Russes, founded in 1909
Moscow State Academy of Choreography, commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, founded in 1773
Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded in 1738 as the Imperial Ballet School
Saint Petersburg Eifman Ballet, founded in 1977
Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet, founded in the 1930s
Perm Theatre Ballet, founded in 1896
Novosibirsk Theatre Ballet, founded in 1945
Russian State Ballet of Siberia, founded in 1978
There are also a number of companies who have been called, or included in their name, Moscow Ballet.
Swan Lake – Entrée and Adage from the Black Swan pas de deux (The Royal Ballet)
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Zenaida Yanowsky as Odile and Nehemiah Kish as Prince Siegfried in the Act III Black Swan Pas de deux of Anthony Dowell's production of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s Swan Lake.
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Swan Lake was Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky's first score for ballet. Its 1877 premiere was poorly received, but it has since become one of the most loved of all ballets. The twinned role of the radiant White Swan and the scheming, duplicitous Black Swan tests the full range of a ballerina's powers, particularly in the two great pas de deux of Acts II and III. Other highlights include the charming Dance of the Little Swans performed by a moonlit lake and sweeping ballroom waltzes in the splendour of the royal palace.
Anthony Dowell's glorious interpretation uses classical choreography created by Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa for the ballet's revised 1895 version. Dramatic costumes emphasize the contrast between human and spirit worlds, while glowing lanterns, shimmering fabrics and designs inspired by the work of Peter Carl Fabergé create a magical setting.
Swan Lake - Pas de Quatre (Dance of the Small Swans) rehearsal
Get an insider look at the famous dance of the 4 small swans from Swan Lake.
In rehearsal with Pacific Northwest Ballet corps de ballet dancers Carli Samuelson, Amanda Clark, Liora Neuville and Leta Biasucci (left-right). The rehearsal is led by ballet master Anne Dabrowski.
Pacific Northwest Ballet is one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, and was founded in 1972. The Company of nearly fifty dancers presents more than 100 performances each year of full-length and mixed repertory ballets in Seattle and on tour.
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Q: Why do they wear tights over their leotards?
A: Often dancers find it more comfortable for partnering.
Q: Who are the girls doing similar steps in the background?
A: There are multiple casts for most roles: a) so the dancers don't get too fatigued on a busy performance weekend b) so more dancers get an opportunity to perform c) if anyone is injured, there is someone who can step in for them. Right after the end of this video, the other cast rehearsed the exact same excerpt.
To see this video combined with performance footage:
OnSale Kirov Mariinsky Ballerina Dumchenko Vaganova Years Sleeping Beauty Asylmuratova Garland Waltz
This is the first of 3 videos entitled, Ballerina Maya Dumchenko. On sale now is Part 1 called The Vaganova Years (more than 2.5 hours long). This video can be puchased at WWW.RUSSIANBALLETVIDEOS.COM for $ 29.99. The actual video on sale has no russianballetvideos.com. So the video that you will buy has no writing in any corner. The website shopping cart will be corrected on Sunday evening, so please pay for the 1985 Moscow Ballet competition, prior to Sunday, and every order will receive an e-mail to confirm that the Maya Dumchenko video is being purchased and not the 1985 Moscow Ballet competition.
The video is divided into several parts
1. Sleeping Beauty Act 1 Garland Dance and Rose Adagio, ending at the collapse of Aurora leading to her 100 year old sleep. This part shows Maya Dumchenko at the front of the Vaganoav students and can be seen very clearly. THe Rose adagio, variation and coda are performed by Altynai Asylmuratova.
2. This part features Maya Dumchenko dancing with her fellow Vaganova students in Paquita, in both a Vaganova school performance and with the Kirov Ballet as a student.
3. This part has Maya dancing as a Vaganova student in 2 different performances of the Dream Scene from act 2 of Don Quixote
4. This part has Maya dancing in Class Concert with the Vaganova school and also has her holding the hand of then Vaganova school director, Konstantin Sergeyev , as they come out of the wings to accept applause at the end of a Vaganova school performance.
5. More than one hour of Maya Dumchenko in one Vaganova school second year class
6. More than 20 minutes of Maya Dumchenko in her 8th year graduating class exam in classical ballet, shortly before joining the Kirov Ballet
7. Maya Dumchenko 8th year graduation exam in acting with Romeo & Juliet being the ballet tested for acting. The following year, Galina Ulanova came from the Bolshoi Ballet to coach, where she began her career at the Kirov, Maya Dumchenko in the first cast role of Juliet which was her acting role in her final graduation acting exam.
8. Maya Dumchenko in her dressing room, prior to the Vaganova school Graduation performances, with her fellow graduating students, backstage.
9. Maya dances at the Kirov Theatre for her graduation performance in the act 3 pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty
10. The video concludes with the conclusion of her Vaganova Years, when she competed in the prestigious Vaganova Prix, winning first prize over a younger dancer, named Svetlana Zakharova , the second prize winner.
Fragments of all these sections will be shown on youtube.
Remember that to purchase this more than 2.5 hour video, go to WWW.RUSSIANBALLETVIDEOS.COM and since the website shopping cart will not be finished until Sunday evening, please pay for the 1985 Moscow Ballet competition and an e-mail will be sent to confirm that the Maya Ducmhenko video is being purchased.
David Yuzhin - Pastorale (Le Prophète)
David Kristoforovitch Yuzhin (1863-1923) was a Russian tenor of Greek heritage. Born David Pindekost (some sources give his real name as Pistiko) in Ekaterinoslav, he sang in his hometown church choir and aspired to become a monk in his youth. Brutal criticism from a conservatory professor in St. Petersburg drove Yuzhin to the verge of suicide, causing him to abandon the idea of ever singing again. However, a much needed second opinion convinced the young tenor that there was a future for him on the opera stage. After a period of further study, he auditioned for the Mariinsky Theatre and was accepted into the chorus in 1892. After two years as a chorister, Yuzhin made his debut as a principal artist at the Kazansk-Saratovsk Opera. The young tenor spent the rest of the 1890s appearing throughout Russia, singing in the theaters of Samara, Kharkov, Odessa, Perm, Tiflis, Kazan, Saratov, Odessa, Yalta, Baku and Kiev. In 1901, Yuzhin made his debut at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre as Raoul in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. He remained with the company for the next seven seasons, singing a variety of roles. During his tenure at the Bolshoi, Yuzhin met the woman who was to become his wife, soprano Natalya Ermolenko (1881-1937). The two went on to become frequent singing partners and remained married until the tenor’s death. Yuzhin was a member of Sergei Zimin’s Opera in Moscow from 1908 to 1912 and also appeared in Italy, Belgium and South America during the first decade of the 20th Century. The busy tenor also organized his own touring company (something that seems to have been popular with Russian tenors of that period) to bring operatic productions to the Russian provinces.
Yuzhin’s repertoire of some thirty roles included the tenor leads in such operas as Boris Godunov, The Snow Maiden, Pique Dame, Fra Diavolo, La Traviata, Aïda, Il Trovatore, Don Carlo, Rigoletto, La Gioconda, Pagliacci, Mefistofele, Faust, La Juive and Roméo et Juliette. At the age of only 50, Yuzhin began to curtail his stage performances and began concentrating on concerts and recitals. His final performance seems to have been a gala concert in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) in 1916. The reasons for his relatively early retirement are not known. Perhaps it was the wear and tear on his voice after two decades of singing some very strenuous repertoire. It might have been to leave more time to dedicate to his touring company. Others have pointed to the possibility that the tenor’s health was failing and that he no longer possessed the physical stamina to perform complete operatic roles. Regardless of the reason, by 1916, Yuzhin’s performing career was over and he concentrated on producing operas on tour to showcase the talents of his wife. By 1920, however, the grueling schedule proved too much for the aging artist. Yuzhin retired to Moscow, where, following a lengthy illness, he died on December 28, 1923 at the age of 60.
David Yuzhin left a fairly impressive legacy of about 60 discs, made for G&T, Pathé and the Gramophone Company between 1901 and 1908. One hears a well produced lirico-spinto voice of decent size and range. One also hears unbelievably shoddy musicianship, particularly in his early piano accompanied discs for G&T. Singer and pianist are rarely in synch. Yuzhin blows through rests, constantly forcing his accompanist to jump ahead or quickly change tempo to accommodate the tenor’s rhythmic eccentricities. These blunders may have been the result of nerves due to uncertainty in his first recording sessions (Moreschi, Marconi and even Caruso made similar gaffs in their early recordings), for one notices these types of errors far less in the tenor’s later recordings. Mistakes or not, Yuzhin’s discs give us a priceless glimpse into the art of a lesser known working tenor from Imperialist Russia. In this recording, Yuzhin sings the Pastorale, Pour Berthe, moi je soupire (in its Russian translation) from Meyerbeer's Le Prophète. This was recorded for G&T in Moscow in January of 1902.
Students of Kyiv Ballet Academy
Fragment of performance of Kyiv Municipal Ballet Academy named after Serge Lifar.
Lifar - Suite, choreography by Dmytro Klyavin.
Female soloist - Diana Ivanchenko.
National Opera of Ukraine, July 2018.
I don't own this video, it is a property of the academy.
Egle Spokaite dances Saint Saens The Swan
Egle Spokaite was born in 1971 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She graduated from the Vilnius Ballet School and joined the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet ballet troupe in 1989. She became a diploma holder of the Bournonville Summer Academy 1993. In 1994 she made a name for herself as a ballet soloist by winning the 1st prize and special award for the best duet (with Edvardas Smalakys) at the Perm International Ballet Competition, the 3rd prize at the Maya'94 International Ballet Competition in St. Petersburg, and the title of the Lithuania's best ballet dancer of the year. Her later distinctions include 1st prizes at the international ballet competitions in Helsinki (1995) and Nagoya, the 4th class order of the Lihuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, the Lithuanian National Award (1996), and the Lithuanian State Award (1997). She is the winner of the Operos Svyturiai Awards 2002 and 2003 as the Best Female Ballet Soloist of the Year. In 2003, she was also hailed the Public's Favourite. In 2004, she was recognised the Best Ballet Soloist of the Year and awarded the Golden Theatre Cross by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
Egle Spokaite's repertoire includes all the leading roles in the theatre's current ballet productions: Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Kitri and Mercedes (Don Quixote), Giselle (Giselle), Carmen (Carmen), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Marie (The Nutcracker), Hippolyta/Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Marina (Zorba the Greek), the Chosen Victim (Le sacre du printemps), the Ballerina (Red Giselle), the Empress (Russian Hamlet), etc.
She has performed on Mstislav Rostropovich Anniversary's Worldwide Tour as Juliet in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, and as a guest performer at the Latvian National Opera, Georgian Opera and Ballet Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Kennedy Center in Washington, City Center in New York, Theatre Pierre Cardin in Paris. She has toured extensively with the ballet troupe of the LNOBT to Germany, Holland, France, Greece, Egypt, the USA, Hungary, Russia, Spain, Poland, and elsewhere.
4/12 The Children of Theatre Street - Vaganova (Kirov) Academy of Russian Ballet 1977 (Documentary)
The Kirov Ballet in Leningrad is probably the most-filmed dance school in the world, but filmmaker Robert Dornhelm manages to pull fresh coals from the fire in Children of Theatre Street. It is emphasized throughout that the newcomers to the Kirov have much to live up to. This, after all, was the training ground for the likes of Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov. There is plenty in Children of Theatre Street to appeal to ballet aficionados and non-fans alike.
with:
Angelina Armeiskaya
Galina Mezenzewa
Konstantin Saklinsky
Alec Timoushin
Lena Voronzova
narration by Princess Grace of Monaco, who used to go by the name of Grace Kelly
this video is originally uploaded by mad-about-mariinsky
David Yuzhin & Natalya Ermolenko-Yuzhina - Tu l'as dit (Huguenots)
David Kristoforovitch Yuzhin (1863-1923) was a Russian tenor of Greek heritage. Born David Pindekost (some sources give his real name as Pistiko) in Ekaterinoslav, he sang in his hometown church choir and aspired to become a monk in his youth. Brutal criticism from a conservatory professor in St. Petersburg drove Yuzhin to the verge of suicide, causing him to abandon the idea of ever singing again. However, a much needed second opinion convinced the young tenor that there was a future for him on the opera stage. After a period of further study, he auditioned for the Mariinsky Theatre and was accepted into the chorus in 1892. After two years as a chorister, Yuzhin made his debut as a principal artist at the Kazansk-Saratovsk Opera. The young tenor spent the rest of the 1890s appearing throughout Russia, singing in the theaters of Samara, Kharkov, Odessa, Perm, Tiflis, Kazan, Saratov, Odessa, Yalta, Baku and Kiev. In 1901, Yuzhin made his debut at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre as Raoul in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. He remained with the company for the next seven seasons, singing a variety of roles. During his tenure at the Bolshoi, Yuzhin met the woman who was to become his wife, soprano Natalya Ermolenko (1881-1937). The two went on to become frequent singing partners and remained married until the tenor’s death. Yuzhin was a member of Sergei Zimin’s Opera in Moscow from 1908 to 1912 and also appeared in Italy, Belgium and South America during the first decade of the 20th Century. The busy tenor also organized his own touring company (something that seems to have been popular with Russian tenors of that period) to bring operatic productions to the Russian provinces.
Yuzhin’s repertoire of some thirty roles included the tenor leads in such operas as Boris Godunov, The Snow Maiden, Pique Dame, Fra Diavolo, La Traviata, Aïda, Il Trovatore, Don Carlo, Rigoletto, La Gioconda, Pagliacci, Mefistofele, Faust, La Juive and Roméo et Juliette. At the age of only 50, Yuzhin began to curtail his stage performances and began concentrating on concerts and recitals. His final performance seems to have been a gala concert in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd) in 1916. The reasons for his relatively early retirement are not known. Perhaps it was the wear and tear on his voice after two decades of singing some very strenuous repertoire. It might have been to leave more time to dedicate to his touring company. Others have pointed to the possibility that the tenor’s health was failing and that he no longer possessed the physical stamina to perform complete operatic roles. Regardless of the reason, by 1916, Yuzhin’s performing career was over and he concentrated on producing operas on tour to showcase the talents of his wife. By 1920, however, the grueling schedule proved too much for the aging artist. Yuzhin retired to Moscow, where, following a lengthy illness, he died on December 28, 1923 at the age of 60.
David Yuzhin left a fairly impressive legacy of about 60 discs, made for G&T, Pathé and the Gramophone Company between 1901 and 1908. One hears a well produced lirico-spinto voice of decent size and range. One also hears unbelievably shoddy musicianship, particularly in his early piano accompanied discs for G&T. Singer and pianist are rarely in synch. Yuzhin blows through rests, constantly forcing his accompanist to jump ahead or quickly change tempo to accommodate the tenor’s rhythmic eccentricities. These blunders may have been the result of nerves due to uncertainty in his first recording sessions (Moreschi, Marconi and even Caruso made similar gaffs in their early recordings), for one notices these types of errors far less in the tenor’s later recordings. Mistakes or not, Yuzhin’s discs give us a priceless glimpse into the art of a lesser known working tenor from Imperialist Russia. In this recording, Yuzhin joins his wife, soprano Natalya Ermolenko, for a Russian translation of the duet Tu l'as dit, oui, tu m'aimes from Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. This was recorded in Moscow for the Gramophone Company in 1908.
12/12 The Children of Theatre Street - Vaganova (Kirov) Academy of Russian Ballet 1977 (Documentary)
The Kirov Ballet in Leningrad is probably the most-filmed dance school in the world, but filmmaker Robert Dornhelm manages to pull fresh coals from the fire in Children of Theatre Street. It is emphasized throughout that the newcomers to the Kirov have much to live up to. This, after all, was the training ground for the likes of Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov. There is plenty in Children of Theatre Street to appeal to ballet aficionados and non-fans alike.
with:
Angelina Armeiskaya
Galina Mezenzewa
Konstantin Saklinsky
Alec Timoushin
Lena Voronzova
narration by Princess Grace of Monaco, who used to go by the name of Grace Kelly
this video is originally uploaded by mad-about-mariinsky