Comments on: Cinderella

By: An Interview with Royal Ballet First Artist Claire Calvert

An Interview with Royal Ballet First Artist Claire Calvert — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:17:31 +0000

[...] has recently landed such plum roles as Lescaut’s mistress in Manon and Winter Fairy in Ashton’s Cinderella. Claire also told us about playing the Lilac Fairy in the current revival of The Sleeping [...]

By: The Little Humpbacked Horse

The Little Humpbacked Horse — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:30:02 +0000

[...] By 1960, when the Bolshoi’s Aleksandr Radunsky choreographed Rodion Shchedrin’s new score for The Little Humpbacked Horse, there were a dozen previous versions of the ballet. The young Shchedrin had composed his score in 1956 (in collaboration with librettists Vasily Vaionen and Pavel Malyarevsky), and legend has it that this was the work that brought him together with his future wife Maya Plisetskaya (who created the role of the Tsar Maiden). Thanks to Shchedrin, the story’s characters were brought to life with expressive music that evoked comedy, drama and lyricism, much in the same vein as Prokofiev’s Cinderella. [...]

By: Emilia

Emilia — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:51:31 +0000

Thank you so much, glad you found our content helpful!

By: Ballet

Ballet — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:34:51 +0000

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By: Birmingham Royal Ballet Cinderella - Review

Birmingham Royal Ballet Cinderella - Review — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:25:04 +0000

[...] those familiar with Ashton’s 1948 version for the Royal Ballet the question was: how would David Bintley frame his Cinderella? Early on during the creative [...]

By: Emilia

Emilia — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:16:29 +0000

The Virgin Megastore in the Carrousel du Louvre has plenty of ballet DVDs. Also, a couple of years ago there used to be a good DVD shop in Avenue de L’Opera close to the Monoprix but not sure if it’s still there. Good luck!

NB:

Linda notes that Cinderella is also available from Amazon France. It’s an old recording with Anthony Dowell as the Prince and Antoinette Sibley as Cinderella. Sir Frederick Ashton and Robert Helpmann appear as the Ugly sisters: http://amzn.to/cZtvfK

By: Renata

Renata — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:14:56 +0000

Someone knows where I can buy this DVD in Paris ???

By: Two Cinderellas.

Two Cinderellas. — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:56:28 +0000

[...] in 1948, it was a double homage to Petipa and British Pantomime tradition (read more about it here). Even though Cinderella is not as often performed as other classics such as The Sleeping Beauty it [...]

By: Emilia

Emilia — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:47:12 +0000

Thanks so much for the feedback David! Glad you enjoyed it. Best, E.

By: David D

David D — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:48:37 +0000

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