| State Ballet of Russia
State Ballet of Russia - The Stone Flower (01) |
Coming after Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, The Tale of the Stone Flower is Sergei Prokofiev’s last major full-length ballet. He started the work in 1948, finishing it five years later, in 1953, and it became his final ballet. Written during the final years of Prokofiev’s life, it was given its first performance at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in February 1954, one year after the composer’s death. The production was a great success with brilliant Galina Ulanova as Katerina, Maya Plisetskaya as The Mistress and V. Preobrazhensky as Danila.
One of her notable successes was Katerina in The Stone Flower, which was the first ballet by Yuri to be staged by the Bolshoi Theatre, on 7 March 1959 and Maya Plisetskaya also in the cast.
A notable success was a new version of The Stone Flower staged at the Mariinsky Theatre by young choreographer Yuri Grigorovich. It was premiered in 1957 with Nikolai Fadeyechev and Vladimir Vasiliev as Danila, Ekaterina Maximova as Katerina and Maya Plisetskaya as the Mistress.
THE TALE OF THE STONE FLOWER
- Ballet in four acts
Libretto by L.Lavrovsky
and M. Mendelson- Prokofieva
Edited by Andrey Petrov
(based on Pavel Bazhov’s tales
The Malachite Casket)
Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes.
Music Director: SERGEY STADLER
Choreographer: ANDREY PETROV
Set designer:
STANISLAV BENEDIKTOV
Costume designer:
OLGA POLYANSKAYA |
| $29.90 (AUD) | |
