Bag of Ballets
(Keep checking this page, we will be filling it with lots of ballet fact cards! Feel free to use the comment form below if you have any suggestions for our bag of ballets.)
Click on links to read about different ballets, their backgrounds & stories:
- Agon
- Carmen
- Cinderella
- Concerto
- Elite Syncopations (special feature on costumes)
- La Fille Mal Gardée
- The Firebird
- Jewels
- Laurencia
- Mayerling
- The Nutcracker
- Ondine
- Les Patineurs
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Sphinx
- La Sylphide
- Les Sylphides
- Symphony in C
- Wayne McGregor’s works for the Royal Ballet
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Do you have any info or recommended links to Midsummer’s Night Dream?
Balletmom,
BalletMet has v. good webnotes on Nixon’s version, including a list of all the other balletic versions of Midsummer’s Night Dream:
http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Midsummer.html
Let us know in case you are looking for more info on other versions. We intend to do a fact card for Ashton’s The Dream in due course.
Best,
E.
Can you shed any light on the storyline of Le Corsaire please? I am going to see the Bolshoi production tonight and am not familiar at all. Wikipedia wasn’t much use other than background. Thank you ballet fans.
Hi! We will write (at some point) a fact card on Le Corsaire but given that you have little time and you are going today, here is a synopsis: http://bit.ly/bNps49
The good thing about the Bolshoi’s production is that Ratmansky and Burlaka made sure that the storytelling was clear. I took a friend yesterday and without telling her much she was able to follow the narrative.
Enjoy Osipova+Vasiliev. I’ll be there so if around please say hi!