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The Flames of Paris (Bolshoi Ballet)
Flames of Paris (original Russian title Plamya Parizha) is a classical ballet with music by musicologist and composer Boris Asafiev based on songs of the French Revolution, and originally choreographed by Vasily Vainonen, with design by Vladimir Dmitriev. The four-act ballet is based on a book by Felix Gras. Authors of the libretto were Nicolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev.
It was premiered at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad on 7 November, 1932, with Natalia Dudinskaya as Mireille de Poitiers, Vakhtang Chabukiani as Jerome, Olga Jordan as Jeanne, Nina Anisimova as Therese, and Konstantin Sergeyev as Mistral. Other productions included the one premiered on 6 July 1933 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, with Aleksei Yermolaev (Jerome), Anastasia Abramova (Jeanne), Nadezhda Kapustina (Therese) and Marina Semenova (Mireille de Poitiers).
The original production and choreography was reconstructed in 2008 by Alexei Ratmansky for the Bolshoi Ballet.
Although its setting is eighteenth-century France, it is a perfect illustration of Leningrad ballet in the 1920s and 1930s, during which time there was a determined effort to find subjects in world history which reflected the more immediate situation in Russia, and to show that the October Revolution was part of more universal movements and historical events.
September 10-11 at 10:00 am,
September 14 at 7:30 pm
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LocationBalboa Theatre
3630 Balboa St. @37th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94121
United States
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