3/21 Kirov Mariinsky Sleeping Beauty Lezhnina debut as Auror

THIS IS NOT THE COMMERCIAL VIDEO. I will be listing three different casts for Sleeping Beauty from 1989 in Leningrad at the Kirov Mariinsky Theater. In all 3 performances, I will omit the opening non dancing portions of the ballet and the long boat ride in the second act. There will still be more than 2 hours and 30 minutes of ballet.This video features Larissa Lezhnina in her first performance as Aurora. Two months later, she danced her second performance as Aurora in Montreal, which was televised by Canadian TV and later sold as a commercial video. In both the Leningrad performance and the Montreal performance, Faroukh Ruzimatov was the prince, but the lilac fairy was different and some of the other soloists were different. The lilac fairy is played by a Russian girl, whose mother was Russian and her father was of Swedish descent. I cannot remember her first name (maybe Elena), but her last name is Martinson.This original video was used by the Canadian TV producer to prepare for the filming in Montreal. The Leningrad performance is much longer than the commercial video and even with what i have omitted, this video is longer than the commercial video. Plus it has those incomparable Vaganova students, which included a young Maya Dumchenko and Diana Vishneva..

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: ketinoa

Length: 10:01
Rating: 5.00
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Tags: Beauty  Kirov  Lezhnina  Mariinsky  Ruzimatov  Sleeping  

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