Jeannette Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 2 hours ago, iolanthe said: There are rumors that Leonid Sarafanov will replace him That would take Sarafanov and his lovely wife, Olesya Novikova, back to St Petersburg. Vaziev strongly heads the Bolshoi, so Fateev would not go there, as I heard in an early rumor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 5 hours ago, FionaM said: There must be a recording somewhere of Sleeping Beauty at Mariinsky in 2006 when Alina Cojocaru guested with Andrian Fadeev. it was broadcast on TV. Most of the Dream Scene is here, but he is hidden under the elaborate costume and hat: https://youtu.be/TTRnMCS7Hec?si=mhODMlL52McKw0nP I was at that fabulous performance, Fiona! A recording exists but I’m not sure if it’s on YouTube…but I have it in my collection. It exists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 (edited) Bits of the 2006 Mariinsky Festival Sleeping Beauty (Vikharev reconstruction) starring Cojocaru and Fadeev, from a Russian TV report. One of the greatest ballet-going nights of my life! I had seen this production in NY, DC, and London but this was my first time seeing it in the “palace” where it was born. I was in the right place at the right time. (Sigh) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNwBlHOAnH0&pp=ygUtQW5kcmlhbiBGYWRlZXYgQWxpbmEgQ29qb2NhcnUgU2xlZXBpbmcgQmVhdXR5 Edited July 10 by Jeannette 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Thank you very much, Jannette, for these clips. I also was at that performance and now these recordings brought back happy memories. Sergey Vikharev worked so meticulously on this reconstruction, including the non-dancing Lilac Fairy, and Daria Pavlenko was magnificently imperious in this role. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolanthe Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 14 hours ago, Jeannette said: That would take Sarafanov and his lovely wife, Olesya Novikova, back to St Petersburg. Vaziev strongly heads the Bolshoi, so Fateev would not go there, as I heard in an early rumor. He’s in Saint Petersburg, he’s been a tutor in Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre since 2023 https://www.yacobsonballet.ru/en/people/repetitors/leonid-sarafanov 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 7 hours ago, iolanthe said: He’s in Saint Petersburg, he’s been a tutor in Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre since 2023 https://www.yacobsonballet.ru/en/people/repetitors/leonid-sarafanov Thanks. I thought that Sarafanov and his family still resided in Novosibirsk! Lots of moving around by Russian ballet VIPs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 (edited) Anna Gordeeva, a ballet critic and the editor of "St. Petersburg Theatre Magazine", wrote an article about the change of management in the Mariinsky Ballet. There have already been jokes that only one letter in the Mariinsky Theater changes (Fateev —> Fadeev). She praised both of them. I have noticed two interesting facts described by the author: (1) For the past sixteen years, Fateev has been listed as the acting manager of the Mariinsky Theatre ballet company. That is, not an artistic director, not even a ballet director, but an eternal “caretaker" - and his enemies reminded him of this prefix at every opportunity. At one time, when Fateev came to replace Maharbek Vaziev, with whom Valery Gergiev had fallen out completely, a lot was expected from a teacher with world experience - however, anyone expected, but not the 'artistic director' of the theatre. Valery Abisalovich (Gergiev) began to exploit the theatre's ballet company for the benefit of the opera - that is, the ballet did not receive money for new productions, but was obliged to earn money through their labour for the much less profitable productions of their singing colleagues. Fateev could come up with the most wonderful projects, but simply did not receive the budget to invite first-class choreographers. This is how the modern repertoire of the Mariinsky Theater sank - and this became a big problem. (2) Andrian Fadeev is 46, and from 2011 until yesterday he headed the Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre. They promised that he will stay there - that is, in light of the new fashion of giving artistic directors two theatres, he will work both there and at the Mariinsky. https://ptj.spb.ru/blog/post-sdal-post-prinyal/ Edited July 11 by Amelia tried to 'revive' the link 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 13 Author Share Posted July 13 I hear that Yuri Fateyev stays on as a coach at Mariinsky. Snd that Andrian Fadeev remains AD at Yakobson in addition to his new role at Mariinsky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 13 Author Share Posted July 13 WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a new ballet created by RB trained Jonah Cook, previously principal in Munich. This is his first full length ballet and is set to music by Phillip Glass, Hildur Goðnadóttir, Tatyana Shatkovskaya and others. Lead roles are performed by Ksenia Ryzhkova, Sergei Polunin, Jonah Cook, Ekateryna Odarenko , Valeriya Mukhanova and Alexander Volchkov. The roles haven’t been announced. It’s clear who is who from this montage of clips of the dress rehearsal https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9UJs1noVkY/?igsh=ZHY3bjg0ZmIxNWo1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 2 hours ago, FionaM said: to music by Phillip Glass, Hildur Goðnadóttir, It would be interesting to know if the composers gave permission to use their music and to play it at Sevastopol. Or if they even know about it. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 13 Author Share Posted July 13 (edited) 2 hours ago, Angela said: It would be interesting to know if the composers gave permission to use their music and to play it at Sevastopol. Or if they even know about it. I’ve no idea of the specifics in the Wuthering Heights case. I suppose the equal and opposite question would be to know if Western musicians, theatres etc get permission of Russian composers, authors etc. And how do they pay for it if the rights are held in Russia? SWIFT is cut off both ways. Edited July 13 by FionaM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 I'm pretty sure that Western orchestras or choreographers continue the way they did before the war: they pay royalties. I don't know the specific rules but I guess there are music editors, publishing hoses or agents who hold the rights of Russian composers for Western countries, or for the whole world. The only contemporary Soviet/Russian composer that comes to my mind right now is Alfred Schnittke, he died in 1998. Boosey & Hawkes/Sikorski holds the rights for his works and they have a beautiful list of performances where you will also find John Neumeier's "Streetcar named Desire", performed at Hamburg and in October at Baden-Baden. So if Boosey & Hawkes knows about the use of Schnittke's music, they will surely collect the royalties and pay them to Schnittke's heirs, whoever they may be. The music editors also grant the rights to use the music, and Western choreographers do ask before they use it for a ballet - because if they use the music without permission, it will get very expensive. Most ballet companies are part of a theatre, and the theatres have specialists for music rights. Does anyone know living Russian composers whose music is used in Western ballet? Somehow this seems to end with Shostakovitch and Shchedrin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 I found another one: Leonid Desyatnikov. Ratmansky used his music for some works. Actually, his is from Ukraine and I have no idea where he lives today. Schott Music holds his rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 15 Author Share Posted July 15 Political tangent in order to respond: I think we in the West need to be careful about labelling anyone born in this region as being one nationality or another. The intermix of people living in both Ukraine and Russia (where 1 in 3 have Ukrainian family connections) underlies the great tragedy of this situation. Many have dual citizenship. Regarding Desyatnikov I haven’t found evidence that he considers himself Ukrainian just because he was born in Kharkiv/Kharkov. It was USSR at the time (1955). He studied in St.Petersburg and was living there when Ratmansky collaborated with him (according to articles I found online). He is an Honoured Artist of Russia and his entire adult creative life appears to have been based in St.Petersburg. I note Ratmansky hasn’t worked with him since 2022, so it may be that Desyatnikov has chosen the Russian side in this, if he has been forced to choose. We all know Svetlana Zakharova was born in Kyiv (also USSR at the time) and considers herself Russian. There are many ballet dancers who were born in Ukraine who have made their careers in Russia and who stay there. This applies to other sectors too. And vice versa also … the prime example being the current commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi. Born in a rural village east of Moscow to a Russian family. Best not to label him as Russian because he was born in a Russian region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 15 Author Share Posted July 15 On 14/07/2024 at 02:21, Angela said: I found another one: Leonid Desyatnikov. Ratmansky used his music for some works. Actually, his is from Ukraine and I have no idea where he lives today. Schott Music holds his rights. how do they reimburse the composer assuming he is in Russia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 (edited) 6 hours ago, FionaM said: ... We all know Svetlana Zakharova was born in Kyiv (also USSR at the time) and considers herself Russian... Just a small correction: Svetlana Zakharova was born in Lutsk, a town in northwest of Ukraine, and studied in Kyiv State Choreographic College. Edited July 15 by Amelia typo 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 10 hours ago, FionaM said: how do they reimburse the composer assuming he is in Russia? Artists with a worldwide career normally have a bank account in a Western country. How he collects that money, I don't know, but his royalties will be there. And choreographers still will ask him or is music publisher if they can use his works. Jonah Cook's ballet may be great, inventive and emotional, I have no idea - but if he starts his career without respect for fellow artists like composers, I'm not sure about his achievement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 16 Author Share Posted July 16 8 hours ago, Angela said: Jonah Cook's ballet may be great, inventive and emotional, I have no idea - but if he starts his career without respect for fellow artists like composers, I'm not sure about his achievement. What irks me is your assumption that the commissioners of this new ballet don’t have permission to use this music. Or do you know some facts here? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 21 hours ago, FionaM said: how do they reimburse the composer assuming he is in Russia? Unless the composer is the subject of sanctions, a payment can be made to their account in Russia (this is the position for the EU as well as the UK). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 I heard from an organizer in Japan that when they invited a certain Russian dancer, they had to pay that artist in cash because of sanctions of bank account, and someone went to Russian for cash payment in advance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 12 hours ago, FionaM said: What irks me is your assumption that the commissioners of this new ballet don’t have permission to use this music. I was just asking if they have permission because I honestly can't imagine they have, regarding the place where the new piece is created, in Crimea. Glass played at least one concert for the Ukrainian victims of the war, and Gudnadottir did, too. Maybe they gave permission, I suspect we will never know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 17 Author Share Posted July 17 Please don’t confuse Sevastopol with Crimea. Sevastopol is the main Russian naval base in the Black Sea, and because of this the city has always had separate administration to the rest of Crimea. The new theatre and ballet academy are on land owned by the Russian Ministry of Defence. It is not Ukrainian land. I’m guessing Sevastopol has a similar special status as does the Russian space station Baikonur which is Russian owned and administered land, within Kazakhstan. (I am still learning about this myself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sitter In Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 “It is not Ukrainian land.” Not sure you quite understand the city’s ‘special status’ (under Ukrainian law) which allowed Russia’s Black Sea fleet to be based there alongside its own craft FionaM or that it was most definitely Ukrainian until Russia annexed Crimea illegally in 2014. It is like saying that Newcastle would not be part of the UK if Norway decided to grab and keep it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolanthe Posted July 17 Share Posted July 17 Andrian Fadeev will remain the artistic director of Leonid Yakobson Ballet Theatre combining it with the new position in Marrinsky Theatre https://www.yacobsonballet.ru/en/news/news 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 On 13/07/2024 at 11:16, FionaM said: WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a new ballet created by RB trained Jonah Cook, previously principal in Munich. A ballet based on this work by Emily Bronte has already been turned into a ballet before - at the Opera de Paris. Choreographer: Kader Belarbi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 19 Author Share Posted July 19 @Amelia and another in 2009 by Cathy Marston https://www.cathymarston.com/wutheringheights.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 19 Author Share Posted July 19 And another by David Nixon for Northern Ballet https://northernballet.com/wuthering-heights 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stucha Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 On 11/07/2024 at 04:30, Jeannette said: I was at that fabulous performance, Fiona! A recording exists but I’m not sure if it’s on YouTube…but I have it in my collection. It exists. I have found a recording of Diana Vishneva and Andrien Fadeyev which seems to be a transfer from VHS, so the quality is not great. I believe the original was about four hours (?), but this particular version is about two and a half hours. There is also a recording (also two and a half hours) of Osmolkina and Korsuntsev, and it is interesting that some of the costumes are different from those of the earlier recording. It is on Youtube. Have not yet found a recording of the full four hour version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 On 20/07/2024 at 22:21, stucha said: I have found a recording of Diana Vishneva and Andrien Fadeyev which seems to be a transfer from VHS, so the quality is not great. I believe the original was about four hours (?), but this particular version is about two and a half hours. There is also a recording (also two and a half hours) of Osmolkina and Korsuntsev, and it is interesting that some of the costumes are different from those of the earlier recording. It is on Youtube. Have not yet found a recording of the full four hour version. Hello. The Cojocaru/Fadeev/Pavlenko one begins about two minutes into the Prologue. All else is there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 23 Author Share Posted July 23 A new and ‘different’ Coppélia is coming to the Mariinsky. Premiere on Thursday 25 July. From the casting it appears there are two ballerina roles … Swanhilda AND Coppélia https://www.instagram.com/p/C9urE7hta7F/?igsh=MTJlemthNGg4aG5tcQ== https://vk.com/wall-130074765_182962 TRANSLATION OF POSTS: 📸📽️ Countdown to the premiere of "Coppelia" 🔸French dancer and choreographer Arthur Saint-Leon, author of the first choreography of the ballet "Coppelia" Leo Delibes, began his career in Munich and Brussels, at the age of thirty-eight arrived in St. Petersburg, having received an invitation to work with the troupe of the Bolshoi (Stone) Theatre. He stayed in St. Petersburg until 1869. By the way, on the fourth floor of Mariinsky 2 at the exhibition of historical costumes there is a unique artefact: the costume of Arthur Saint-Léon himself from the ballet "Paqueretta" by François Benoit (production of 1860). 🔸Shortly before his death, Saint-Léon returned to Paris to write his last ballet "Coppelia" based on Hoffmann's novel "Sandman". 🔸 And a completely different "Coppelia" - in the choreography of Alexander Sergeev - is waiting for the audience very soon in Mariinsky-2. The shows start on Thursday, July 25. Don't miss the main ballet premiere of the season! 🔸 On July 25, the main parts of "Koppelia" will be performed by Nadezhda Batoeva (Svanilda), Kimin Kim (Franz), May Nagahisa (Koppelia), Konstantin Zverev (Koppelius). July 26 - Renata Shakirova, Philip Stepin, Maria Shirinkina, Maxim Zyuzin. July 27 - Olesya Novikova, Timur Askerov, May Nagahisa, Roman Belyakov. July 28 at 12:00 - Alexandra Khiteeva, Nikita Korneev, Vlada Borodulina, Evan Kapiten. July 28 at 19:00 - Maria Shirinkina, Anastasia Lukina, Evgeny Konovalov, Konstantin Zverev. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 On 16/07/2024 at 08:57, FionaM said: What irks me is your assumption that the commissioners of this new ballet don’t have permission to use this music. Or do you know some facts here? I guess Philip Glass must have read this forum... 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Capricorn Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 27 minutes ago, Angela said: I guess Philip Glass must have read this forum... That doesn't surprise me at all. That country has never respected copyright and apparently has no intention of changing that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolanthe Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 8 hours ago, Silver Capricorn said: That doesn't surprise me at all. That country has never respected copyright and apparently has no intention of changing that. If it were so Russian ballet companies will continue to perform ballets without licensing. This one is just a particular case that does not represent the whole situation 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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