Staging the Joy of Life
Sleeping Beauty:Staging the Joy of Life This backgrounder article is sponsored by The National Theatre Ballet as a service for Opus Osm readers. Sleeping Beauty is one of the most-often staged ballets (besides Swan Lake and The Nutcracker), appearing frequently in the repertoire of (not only) major ballet companies worldwide. Moreover, Sleeping Beauty has a unique position in the work of the legendary ballet-creator team Tchaikovsky-Petipa. Yuri Slonimsky, a well-known…
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Christopher Bruce and Moonshine Come to Prague
This backgrounder article is sponsored by The National Theatre Ballet as a service for Opus Osm readers. Introductory word by Christopher Bruce The music for all three ballets that make up this programme was recorded in the latter part of the twentieth century. However, a basis of folk music going back centuries is present in many of the tracks and represents a theme which links all three works. In The…
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Pocket Smetana
The Pocket Smetana Bedřich Smetana, Na Cestě z Litomyšle/On the Way from Litomyšl Olga Mojžíšová, Radmila Habánová, Hana Klimešová, Jan Pikna 2009, Smetanova Litomyšl, publisher 94 pgs, paperback, 50 kč In Czech and excellent English This is a handy little book to add to your library, whether or not your collection contains information on classical music and composers. After all, these days if you want to know about a composer,…
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