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Le Corsaire

In the Bolshoi Ballet's new staging of Le Corsaire, Petipa's original choreography is revived and refreshed by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka to breathe new life into this production. The ballet follows Medora, a young Greek girl, and Conrad, a dashing pirate, as they journey through a tapestry of dramatic events, culminating in a shipwreck considered to be one of ballet's most dazzling spectacles. Starring Svetlana Lunkina, Ruslan Skvortsov, Andrei Merkuriev & Nina Kaptsova.

"The final scene has one scenic masterstroke after another. Moonlight upon the Mediterranean, then the corsairs' shipfilling most of the stage with characters on board, trumped by thunder, lightning, storm, rising waves, and the boat splitting before our eyes: the kind of special effect that in recent decades has belonged to film alone." The New York Times

"fairly bursts with dazzling ingredients...the final ocean scene is Kaminsky's crowning glory." Washington Post

From the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, Russia
Libretto: JULES HENRI VERNOY DE SAINT-GEORGES & JOSEPH MAZILIER, edited by MARIUS PETIPA

Choreography: MARIUS PETIPA
Revival: ALEXEI RATMANSKY, YURI BURLAKA
New Choreography: ALEXEI RATMANSKY
Designer: BORIS KAMINSKY
Costume Designer: YELENA ZAITSEVA
Music Director: PAVEL KLINICHEV
Lighting Designer: DAMIR ISMAGILOV
Use is made in the production of music by LEO DELIBES, CESARE PUGNI, PYOTR VON OLDENBURG, RICCARDO DRIGO, ALBERT ZABEL, JULIUS GERBER.

Music dramaturgy conception: YURI BURLAKA

Score restored by ALEXANDER TROITSKY
3 hrs 35 mins including 2 intermissions