俄羅斯聖彼得堡冬宮 Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia
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俄羅斯聖彼得堡冬宮
Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia
Yusupov Palace Saint Petersburg singers
If you ever you go to Saint-Petersburg you have to go to the Yusupov Palace, fascinating. As the singers demonstrate with no amplification the concert hall has perfect acoustics.
The Moika Palace or Yusupov Palace was once the primary residence in St. Petersburg, Russia of the House of Yusupov. The building was the site of Grigori Rasputin's murder in the early morning of December 17, 1916. 15.06.2018
Anichkov palace
Anichkov Palace (Russian: Anichkov dvorets) is a former imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, at the intersection of Nevsky Avenue and the Fontanka.
Lydia Ivanova - Balanchine’s Muse [Fragments of Film Footage from ‘Dvorets i krepost’ (1923)]
I often wonder what kind of career and what influences Lydia Ivanova would have had on ballet outside Russia, had she not died so prematurely.
Ivanova was a friend of George Balanchine at the Imperial Theatre School in St Petersburg, and performed with the choreographer in some of his early works.
She was due to leave on a 1924 tour of Germany with the Soviet State Dancers - which included Balanchine, his wife Tamara Geva, Alexandra Danilova and Nicholas Efimov - when she died in a boating accident. The boat in which she was a passenger was struck by another boat. The four other passengers in the boat survived - Ivanova’s body was never recovered. The ballerina was dating a communist officer at the time and there is some doubt about whether her death was accidental or something else.
It has been suggested that the memory of Ivanova was an inspiration for some of Balanchine's later work, including the classic ‘Serenade’.
As far as I am aware, these are the only fragments of footage of the ballerina that exist. They are from the 1923 movie ‘Dvorets i krepost’ (‘Palace and Fortress’). At one point in the film, Tsar Alexander III attends a ballet performance at the Hermitage Theatre in the Winter Palace in which Lydia Ivanova appears with a corps de ballet in a ‘Chopiniana’ styled ballet.
A rehearsal photograph of the ballet in the spring of 1923 shows Moscow ballerina Ksenia Makletsova and Ivanova at the end of a line of dancers, standing next to Alexandra Danilova. This perhaps suggests Makletsova and Danilova might appear unidentified in the film fragments.
So I suspect great potential not realized, particularly, as Balanchine’s muse, ballets created for and so revealing her particular gifts.
See: Elizabeth Kendall ‘Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer’ (2013)
So I suspect great potential not realised, particularly, as Balanchine’s muse, ballets created for and so revealing her particular gifts.
See: Elizabeth Kendall ‘Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer’ (2013)
Enjoy!
Аничков Дворец
Аничков дворец— один из императорских дворцов Санкт-Петербурга, у Аничкова моста на набережной реки Фонтанки . Своё название дворец получил от Аничкова моста . Старейшее из сохранившихся зданий на Невском проспекте.В августе 1741 г. царица Елизавета купила этот обширный участок земли у лесоторговца Д. Л. Лукьянова, присоединила к нему смежные участки и приказала арх. М. Г. Земцову разработать проект дворца. Вскоре начали бить сваи под фундамент дворца, рыть гавань со стороны Фонтанки и разбивать сад. После смерти Земцова работу продолжил его помощник - арх. Г. Д. Дмитриев. Он представил Елизавете 16 чертежей проектов дворца. Один из них был утвержден, и началось строительство больших каменных палат. В декоративной отделке дворца принимал участие Б.Ф. Растрелли.
Главным фасадом дворец был обращен к Фонтанке. Посреди парадного двора устроили прямоугольную гавань, связанную с Фонтанкой каналом, по которому гости на шлюпках подплывали к ступеням парадного входа. По сторонам канала у реки симметрично стояли две галереи-колоннады. А на Невский пр. (который тогда служил проезжей дорогой для доставки грузов в Адмиралтейство и лишь в 1783 г. стал главной улицей столицы) выходила стена бокового корпуса, лишенная декоративной отделки. Над корпусом был устроен обширный висячий сад.
В 1757 г. Елизавета Петровна подарила дворец своему морганатическому супругу, графу А. Г. Разумовскому. После его смерти усадьба перешла его брату, президенту Академии наук графу К. Г. Разумовскому. ([25] С.161 Наталия)
На месте Александрийского театра в царствование Елизаветы стоял павильон, в котором размещалась картинная галерея Разумовского, устраивались балы, концерты и маскарады. От Аничковского дворца вдоль Невской першпективы тянулся пруд с высоко насыпанными берегами. На месте Российской Национальной (бывшей Публичной) библиотеки размещались теплицы и оранжереи. В здании вдоль Садовой улицы проживала дворцовая прислуга. А Г. Разумовский, ставший первейшим вельможей времен Елизаветы, был сыном украинского казака, певчим, образования никакого не имел. Да этого от него и не требовалось.Anichkov Palace (Russian: Аничков дворец, Anichkov dvorets) is a former imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, at the intersection of Nevsky Avenue and the Fontanka
Hermitage Theatre: St. Petersburg muziek, June 24, 2001
Hermitage Theatre: St. Petersburg music broadcast June 24, 2001 by Aspect Art, an art program for Kleurnet Television Amsterdam, 1998-2001,. interviews and edit by David Heine and son, production by Luc Sala.
Mathilde Kschessinskaya - Footage At Her Son Vladimir’s Name Day Celebration, and Visiting Paris
This video contains two pieces of footage of famed Mariinsky ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya (1872-1971).
The first shows Kschessinskaya greeting guests and firmly directing proceedings at an outdoor gathering for her son Vladimir’s Name Day Celebration - the film gives as a strong sense of her force of personality! Towards the end of the footage, we see her son, known as ‘Vova’ and later as Prince Romanovsky-Krakinsky, talking food from a buffet table.
In the second fragment of footage, we see the ballerina sight-seeing in Paris with a gentleman.
Famed as much for her affairs with the future Nicholas II and the Grand Dukes Sergei Mikhailovich and his cousin Andrei Vladimirovich as for her dancing, Kschessinska obtained the title of Prima Ballerina in 1896 only through her influence at the Imperial Russian Court and against the wishes of Marius Petipa, who created only a small number of roles on the dancer.
The first image fronting the footage show Kschessinskaya as Niriti in 'Talisman' in 1905 or 1909. The fourth image shows her with Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich and the fifth with her son Vova, the father of whom is somewhat in question.
The music I've used for the sound track of this video is from her favourite ballet, 'La Esmeralda' - original choreography by Jules Perrot (1844) and rearranged by Marius Petipa (1886), and with music by Cesare Pugni, rearranged and with additional music by Riccardo Drigo for the 1886 revival.
Enjoy!
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Russian opera (Russian: Ру́сская о́пера Rússkaya ópera) is the art of opera in Russia. Operas by composers of Russian origin, written or staged outside of Russia, also belong to this category, as well as the operas of foreign composers written or intended for the Russian scene. These are not only Russian-language operas. There are examples of Russian operas written in French, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Japanese, or the multitude of languages of the nationalities that were part of the Empire and the Soviet Union.
Russian opera includes the works of such composers as Glinka, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
Searching for its typical and characteristic features, Russian opera (and Russian music as a whole), has often been under strong foreign influence. Italian, French, and German operas have served as examples, even when composers sought to introduce special, national elements into their work. This dualism, to a greater or lesser degree, has persisted throughout the whole history of Russian opera.