Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty / Durante, Solymosi, Dowell, Royal Ballet

Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty / Durante, Solymosi, Dowell, Royal Ballet | Viviana Durante, Zoltan Solymosi | Superior dancing

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Tchaikovsky - The ...

	Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty / Durante, Solymosi, Dowell, Royal Ballet Viviana Durante, Zoltan Solymosi Kultur Video, 1997 average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ballet at its best

Surviving four acts of classical ballet and Tchaikovski in the days of Pina Bausch takes... a lot. In this case it is easy thank's to the quality of every soul involved in the production. It is difficult to think of a better Aurora for Dowell's version. Durante is magnificent. Solymosi knows he is not a great soloist, and dedicates himself to be a good "partenaire" (smart move!) and a handsome prince (yes, that is called "danseur noble" and seems to be rare today with so many male ballet divas in New York and Paris). Of course the greatest "thing" is Dowell's Carabosse: That's acting-dancin Ms. Pina Bausch! Costumes, lighting, orchestra, the whole company. I cannot think of anything dissapointing except, maybe, the need of a strongest Lilac Fairy. Thank you Royal Ballet!

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Superior dancing

Durante is a pleasure to watch and has the requisite skills for Aurora - security on pointe. Her Rose Adagio is superb, and clearly superior to Asylmuratovna. The latter is a lovely dancer, but falters in this most challenging part of the ballet.

The production is not as lovely as ABT's, but this DVD is worth buying just for the dancing.

Great Dancing, Scenery Could be Better

This video was a lot of fun to watch, but it lacked some elements of elegance. There's no doubt that the choreography and dancing was great, but the costumes and scenery could have used a little work. I recomend this video to anyone who love ballet, but if possible, try to look for another version with better scenery. Good luck!

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Excellent dancing, dim production

I agree with other reviewers - the dancing in this production is absolutely superb. However, I did not care for the design at all. Almost everything is executed in silvery-grey shades that look more monotonous than delicate on VHS, and some of the backdrops have a huge scale and weird perspective that are very distracting. That said, and somewhat to my surprise, my 4-year-old is clearly charmed by the video and will watch as much of it as I will allow at one sitting.

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