The Bolshoi Ballet Live in HD

POSTED - October 07

The Screen Cinema is delighted to announce that we will be screening a full season of live performances by the legendary Bolshoi Ballet transmitted live in HD by satellite from the Stage of the great Bolshoi Theatre in the heart of Moscow .

Arguably the world’s greatest and most famous ballet company, this new departure by the Bolshoi Ballet will bring thrilling live performances of the greatest of world class ballet productions to audiences all around Ireland and throughout the world. There is all of the thrill and excitement of a real live performance, fabulous sound and pictures, along with the feeling that you have the best seats in the house and are part of audience in the theatre.

The 2011-12 season offers six great ballets, ranging from the great popular romantic fairytale classics such as Sleeping Beauty, to the hilarious Stalinist era satirical comedy The Bright Stream that so outraged the state censors they had its author sent to the Gulag for cultural subversion. Along the way are dramatic tales of love and adventure in exotic lands and times of chivalry such as Le Corsaire (The Pirate) and Raymonda, are tales familiar to modern era as the Hunchback of Notre Dame in Esmeralda, and of course a Christmas performance of the perennial children’s favourite The Nutcracker.
With the most sumptuous music ever written (played by the wonderful Bolshoi orchestra), spectacular choreography, and the most remarkably elegant. expressive and athletic dancing these are some of the most thrilling and captivating ballet performances you are ever likely to see. All taking place on the great stage of one of the world’s most ornately glorious and historic venues – the Bolshoi live in HD is the next best thing to being there.

Le Corsaire – Adolphe Adam
Sunday 11th March 2012 at 3pm
A swashbuckling romantic tale of the rescue of a beautiful slave from her tyrannical master by a handsome pirate – with some of ballet’s most famous individual passages, including the famous Pas de Deux.

Medora, a young Greek girl, is sold by a slave dealer. The pirate Conrad seizes Medora and declares his love for her. Conrad’s right-hand-man, who is jealous of Conrad, sends Medora back to the slave dealer who sells her back to her former owner. Conrad and his men show up to take Medora away again but he is recognized through his disguise, captured, and sentenced to death. To save his life, Medora, now in love with Conrad, plots with another slave girl, Gulnare, and tricks her owner into marrying Gulnare. That evening Medora dances for Pasha, convinces him to lay down his weapons, and Conrad enters to take her away. The ship on which Medora and Conrad escape sinks in a terrible storm but the two lovers are saved when they wash up on a rocky island.
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The Bright Stream- Shostakovitch
Sunday 29th April 2012 at 4pm
The Bolshoi’s production of the Bright Stream has been described as one of the funniest ballets ever seen on stage, when a big city dance troupe visits a collective farm to perform for the bemused workers.

During a harvest festival on a collective farm in the Russian steppes, a Moscow dance troupe arrives from the big city to entertain the workers, causing all manner of hilarious trouble when they interact formally and informally with the locals in the process. With a sparkling and witty score by the great Dmitri Shostakovitch, The Bright Stream is a rich, comedy of errors love story with mistaken identities, hilarious deceptions and happy resolutions.
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Raymonda – Glazunov
Sunday 24th June 2012 at 4pm
To a lush exotic score by Alexander Glazunov, Raymonda tells the tale of a French noblewoman betrothed to a Crusader Knight, and her attempted abduction by a spurned Saracen rival for her affections.

Raymonda has said farewell to her betrothed Knight as he leaves on the crusades. Subsequently a saracen knight appears at a royal event and makes a terrifying declaration of love to her. Rejected, he attempts to abduct her, but is foiled by the return of her betrothed, who defeats his rival in single combat. The Ballet ends with the famous celebratory Hungarian dance in honour of the Hungarian King.
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