The libretto has been fiddled-with by everyone who has staged this ballet. Soon after Lydia Pashkova's original libretto was accepted in 1895, first Vsevolozhsky and later Petipa made substantial revisions before the ballet was staged. Pashkova's original libretto has been lost, so we will never know what she had in mind, but perhaps her story was historically more logical & coherent.
Just a few corrections about dates: the tv broadcast was filmed on October 27 starting at 20.00 but put out at 21.30 to reduce the intervals to only a few minutes for the viewer at home. The cameras recorded the performance on October 25 so the two evenings can be used to create a DVD version. The opening on October 11 was only filmed by a news-team camera for the telegiornale the next day.
@mrlopez2681 The information comes from friends who work in the theatre. The 'adjusted' recording (hopefully taking away that awful piano special effect) will be sold to international arts stations and maybe released as a DVD too.
I love this Raymonda! They wear really beautiful costumes, of course dancing is also excellent. Thank you so much for posting!
marikoTokyo 3 months ago
The libretto has been fiddled-with by everyone who has staged this ballet. Soon after Lydia Pashkova's original libretto was accepted in 1895, first Vsevolozhsky and later Petipa made substantial revisions before the ballet was staged. Pashkova's original libretto has been lost, so we will never know what she had in mind, but perhaps her story was historically more logical & coherent.
palubob 3 months ago
Just a few corrections about dates: the tv broadcast was filmed on October 27 starting at 20.00 but put out at 21.30 to reduce the intervals to only a few minutes for the viewer at home. The cameras recorded the performance on October 25 so the two evenings can be used to create a DVD version. The opening on October 11 was only filmed by a news-team camera for the telegiornale the next day.
gramilano 3 months ago
@gramilano - thanks for the corrections, but where did you learn of the DVD version?
mrlopez2681 3 months ago
@mrlopez2681 The information comes from friends who work in the theatre. The 'adjusted' recording (hopefully taking away that awful piano special effect) will be sold to international arts stations and maybe released as a DVD too.
gramilano 3 months ago
Thank you very much for this. It will take me a few days to get through it all.
palubob 3 months ago