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Showing posts with label Lesley Collier. Show all posts
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Saturday, 26 May 2012
Saturday, 12 May 2012
La Fille Mal Gardee. RB. 1981.
Watch The Performance Here:
La Fille Mal Gardée ("The Unguarded Maiden"), perhaps the best-known work of composer Ferdinand Hérold,
is here presented in a Royal Ballet production freely adapted, arranged and conducted by John Lanchbery.
The unquestioned centre of attention is Royal Ballet superstar Lesley Collier who plays Lise,
the beautiful farm girl whom her widowed mother (Brian Shaw) plans to marry to the eligible Alain (Garry Grant)
despite Lise's love for young farmer Colas (Michael Coleman).
This is a colourful pastoral romp with pause for tender and lyrical moments and plentiful opportunities
for Collier to enchant her many admirers. Royal Ballet principal conductor Lanchbery--himself composer
of the well-loved Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)--brings all his flair for this sort of carefree entertainment
to play and the result is delightful. Filmed for BBC television at Covent Garden in January 1981, the witty,
energetic and romantic choreography is by Frederick Ashton (his dancing chickens are hilarious,
as is Shaw's "clog dance" in Act Two) and the stage design by Osbert Lancaster,
whose legacy adds charm to a much more recent BBC Royal Ballet film of Coppélia (2000).
Hérold's score is filled with playfulness, melody and laughter, making this a very superior pantomime.
is here presented in a Royal Ballet production freely adapted, arranged and conducted by John Lanchbery.
The unquestioned centre of attention is Royal Ballet superstar Lesley Collier who plays Lise,
the beautiful farm girl whom her widowed mother (Brian Shaw) plans to marry to the eligible Alain (Garry Grant)
despite Lise's love for young farmer Colas (Michael Coleman).
This is a colourful pastoral romp with pause for tender and lyrical moments and plentiful opportunities
for Collier to enchant her many admirers. Royal Ballet principal conductor Lanchbery--himself composer
of the well-loved Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)--brings all his flair for this sort of carefree entertainment
to play and the result is delightful. Filmed for BBC television at Covent Garden in January 1981, the witty,
energetic and romantic choreography is by Frederick Ashton (his dancing chickens are hilarious,
as is Shaw's "clog dance" in Act Two) and the stage design by Osbert Lancaster,
whose legacy adds charm to a much more recent BBC Royal Ballet film of Coppélia (2000).
Hérold's score is filled with playfulness, melody and laughter, making this a very superior pantomime.
Cast & Crew
Lesley Collier
Michael Coleman
Leslie Edwards
Brian Shaw
Garry Grant
Graham Fletcher
Derek Rencher and more
Michael Coleman
Leslie Edwards
Brian Shaw
Garry Grant
Graham Fletcher
Derek Rencher and more
Music: Ferdinand Herold
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: John Lanchbery
Conductor: John Lanchbery
Choreography: Frederick Ashton
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Mayerling. RB. 1994.
Watch The Performance Here:
with John Lanchbery's sumptuous scoring of music by Franz Liszt.
The dramatic soundscape is matched by MacMillan's penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding
the double suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his young mistress,
Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling in January 1889.
Crown Prince Rudolf: Irek Mukhamedov
Baroness Mary Vetsera: Viviana Durante
Mitzi Caspar: Darcey Bussell
Countess Marie Larisch: Lesley Collier
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
The Royal Ballet
Kenneth MacMillan, choreographer
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1 and 5 February 1994.
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