BALLETTO IN UN ATTO/A ONE ACT BALLET LIBRETTO DI/BY ALBERTO ALONSO
BASATO SULLA NOVELLA/BASED ON THE NOVEL CARMEN DI/BY PROSPER MÉRIMÉE
MUSICA/MUSIC BY GEORGES BIZET, RODION ŠČEDRIN
RIELABORATA DA/RE-ELABORATED BY RODION ŠČEDRIN
COREOGRAFIA/CHOREOGRAPHY ALBERTO ALONSO
RIPRESA DA/REDIRECTED BY SONIA CALERO PER IL CORPO DI BALLO DEL TEATRO DI SAN CARLO
SCENE E COSTUMI/SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BORIS MESSERER
DIRETTORE/DIRECTOR ALEXEI BAKLAN
INTERPRETI/WITH SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA, DENIS RODKIN, MIKHAIL LOBUKHIN
CORPO DI BALLO DEL TEATRO DI SAN CARLO
ALLESTIMENTO/PRODUCTION FONDAZIONE TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
date/dates 10, 11 luglio/july h 19.00
luogo/venue teatro politeama
durata/running time 50min
lingua/language spettacolo senza uso di parole/show without words
paese/country russia, italia/russia, italy
With the choreography by Alberto Alonso, founder of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and music by Bizet, and re-elaborated by the Russian composer Rodion Šèedrin in 1967, Carmen Suite was conceived for the legendary étoile of the Moscow Teatro Bol’šoj, Maja Plisetskaja. This work is still considered one of the masterpieces of the Cuban choreographer. In 2005, two years before his death, Alberto Alonso re-adapted Carmen Suite for Svetlana Zakharova, the internationally-renowned star of the Teatro Bol’šoj. A veritable champion of liberty and unbridled seduction, Carmen had been one of the great fictional heroines since her creation in 1845 by Prosper Mérimée. An enthralling story – contemporaneously classic and modern – in which the balanced and apparently simple choreography seems to contrast the powerfully expressive execution by this eloquent and charismatic Ukrainian étoile.
