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Alina Cojocaru performs Medora in 'Le Corsaire' ballet
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Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes MK9 3NZ, UK Event Options
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Oct 17 at 19:00 - Oct 17 at 21:00
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Alina Cojocaru performs Medora in 'Le Corsaire' ballet after Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev
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Alina Cojocarul will perform the leading character of Mandora in Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev's ballet 'Le Corsaire' (The Pirate) with the English National Ballet Company.
Le Corsaire (The Pirate) is a thrilling ballet about Conrad, a dashing pirate, and his love for Medora, a beautiful harem girl. It is a swashbuckling drama of captive maidens, rich sultans, kidnap and rescue, disguise and conspiracy, love and betrayal, culminating in a shipwreck which is one of the most breath-taking spectacles in ballet.English National Ballet is the first UK Company to perform the complete work which showcases some of the most bravura male dancing in the ballet repertoire.
In March 1858 Marius Petipa was dispatched to mount Jules Perrot's version of ‘Le Corsaire’ for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre who continued performing the ballet with some regularity for many years in various revivals. In 1888 Petipa supervised the creation of a new production of Le Corsaire for the company, which premiered to a resounding success. Petipa was a leading choreographer of the time in Russia. In 1894 the Bolshoi Theatre's newly appointed Ballet Master Ivan Clustine mounted his staging of Le Corsaire, which premiered on 22 March 1894. Petipa would later allege that Clustine's production apparently plagiarised much of his own choreography, particularly for the scene ‘Le jardin animé’.
Main Characters
Medora – beautiful Greek woman
Conrad – dashing pirate
Gulnare – Seyd Pasha’s slave girl
Lankendem – bazaar owner
Ali – Conrad’s devoted slave
Birbanto – Conrad’s friend
Credits:
Staged by Anna-Marie Holmes after Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev
Music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo, Prince Pyotr van Oldenburg, Ludwig Minkus, Yuly Gerber, Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schnell and Albert Zabel
Edited by Lars Payne and Gavin Sutherland
Libretto by Jules-Henri de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier in a version by Anna-Marie Holmes
Based on The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron
Sets and Costumes by Bob Ringwood
Lighting by Neil Austin
TICKETS: http://www.ballet.org.uk/whats-on/lecorsaire/
Le Corsaire (The Pirate) is a thrilling ballet about Conrad, a dashing pirate, and his love for Medora, a beautiful harem girl. It is a swashbuckling drama of captive maidens, rich sultans, kidnap and rescue, disguise and conspiracy, love and betrayal, culminating in a shipwreck which is one of the most breath-taking spectacles in ballet.English National Ballet is the first UK Company to perform the complete work which showcases some of the most bravura male dancing in the ballet repertoire.
In March 1858 Marius Petipa was dispatched to mount Jules Perrot's version of ‘Le Corsaire’ for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre who continued performing the ballet with some regularity for many years in various revivals. In 1888 Petipa supervised the creation of a new production of Le Corsaire for the company, which premiered to a resounding success. Petipa was a leading choreographer of the time in Russia. In 1894 the Bolshoi Theatre's newly appointed Ballet Master Ivan Clustine mounted his staging of Le Corsaire, which premiered on 22 March 1894. Petipa would later allege that Clustine's production apparently plagiarised much of his own choreography, particularly for the scene ‘Le jardin animé’.
Main Characters
Medora – beautiful Greek woman
Conrad – dashing pirate
Gulnare – Seyd Pasha’s slave girl
Lankendem – bazaar owner
Ali – Conrad’s devoted slave
Birbanto – Conrad’s friend
Credits:
Staged by Anna-Marie Holmes after Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev
Music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo, Prince Pyotr van Oldenburg, Ludwig Minkus, Yuly Gerber, Baron Boris Fitinhof-Schnell and Albert Zabel
Edited by Lars Payne and Gavin Sutherland
Libretto by Jules-Henri de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier in a version by Anna-Marie Holmes
Based on The Corsair (1814) by Lord Byron
Sets and Costumes by Bob Ringwood
Lighting by Neil Austin
TICKETS: http://www.ballet.org.uk/whats-on/lecorsaire/
