Plamya Parizha (The Fire of Paris)

Composer: Asafiev, Boris Vladimirovich

Librettist/Text Author: Volkov, Nikolay

Librettist/Text Author: Dmitriev, Vladimir

Librettist/Text Author: Ratmansky, Alexei

Librettist/Text Author: Belinsky, Alexander

Ballet Company: Bolshoi Ballet

Choreographer: Ratmansky, Alexei

Original Choreographer: Vainonen, Vasili

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Adeline: Kaptsova, Nina

Antoine Mistral: Skvortsov, Ruslan

Jeanne: Osipova, Natalia

Jerome: Savin, Denis

Mireille de Poitiers: Antonicheva, Anna

Philippe: Vasiliev, Ivan

The Marquis Costa de Beauregard: Klevtsov, Yuri

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Corps de Ballet: Bolshoi Ballet

Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

Conductor: Sorokin, Pavel

Television Director: Bataillon, Vincent

Lighting Designer: Ismagilov, Damir

Set Designer: Utkin, Ilya

Set Designer: Monakhov, Evgeny

Costumer Designer: Markovskaya, Elena

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Date of Production: 03-2010

Venue: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Playing Time: 01:42:53

Catalogue Number: BAC062

UPC: 3760115300620

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Produced in the 1930s, The Flames of Paris, with music by Boris Asafiev, was presented on the eve of the anniversary of the October Revolution, and later continued to be included in the ranks of works which were always brought out for an airing on anniversaries of this sort. This is hardly surprising, The Flames of Paris is about the conflagration of the great French Revolution. It had a new 'hero' type which, up to then, had not been encountered in ballet ?EUR" one of its main characters was the populace, revolutionary in mood and ready for action.