MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - RUSSIA: Ukraine and Uzbekistan
Russia
St Petersburg: Mariinsky Theater / Views of the City
Ukraine
Odessa - Opera and Ballet Theatre
Uzbekistan
Bukhara
Russia
St Petersburg: Summer Gardens / Peterhof / Pavlovsk
Ukraine
Lastochkino Gnyezdo (Swallow's Nest Castle), Crimea
Russia
St Petersburg: Interval at the Marrinsky Theatre
Moscow: The Kremlin and Red Square
Uzbekistan
Khiva
Russia
St Petersburg: City Ballet School
Ukraine
Ballet Museum / Views of Odessa
Russia
St Petersburg: City Views / Ivan Kramskoy's Painting, "An Unknown Lady"
Edgar Degas
Swan Lake / Mariinsky Theater, St Petersburg / Valday Hills, near Novgorod
Swans
St Petersburg: Marrinsky Theater, Impressions of Swan Lake
St Petersburg: Tanya Serova, Prima Ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre
St Petersburg: Mariinsky Theatre / St Petersburg by Night
Date of Production: 2010-05-25
Playing Time: 00:59:00
Catalogue Number: 2.110250 UPC: 747313525058
UPC: 747313525058
The Places
Starting in St. Petersburg, once the capital of Russia under Peter the Great, our tour takes us to Ukraine and to Uzbekistan before returning first to Moscow and then to St. Petersburg and the famous Marïinsky Theatre, where Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker were first performed.
The Music
The Russian composer Tchaikovsky had a mastery of the smaller forms demanded by ballet, with its series of relatively short scenes. Excerpts from his three famous ballet scores, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and Nutcracker, provide the music to accompany a tour of Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
