A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, with a score by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. This New Year’s Eve programme revolves around Act III, in which Princess Aurora is brought out of her long sleep by the prince of her dreams and marries him. In addition, prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina dances Camille Saint-Saëns’ famous Dying Swan, first performed by Anna Pavlova. In conclusion the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Young Singers’ Academy perform the finale of Rossini’s Journey to Rheims in a joyous celebration of the coming of the New Year.
Genre: Music
Stars: Ulyana Lopatkina, Yekaterina Osmolkina, Viktoria Tereshkina, Daria Pavlenko, Andrian Fadeyev, Anton Korsakov
Crew: Marius Petipa (Choreographer), Gioacchino Rossini (Original Music Composer), Camille Saint-Saëns (Original Music Composer), Michel Fokine (Choreographer), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Original Music Composer), Denis Caïozzi (Director)
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Language: Français, Pусский
Studio: Mariinsky Theatre, ARTE
Runtime: 70 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 31, 2006
IMDb: 10
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