Alexander Godunov as Tybalt

[lizbetzynth]

song name?



[magnumSuper]

@lizbetzynth Dear, you've got to know Prokofiev's score for this ballet, if you are interested ;=) actually it's Capuletti theme, so it's Tybalt's music.)

"Dance of the knights"

[xanglat]

C'est toujours un bonheur de retrouver Ylexander Godunov !!!!

Grand MERCI pour cette mie en ligne ....

SUBLIME

Thank you very much for sharing

[pediatrapaola]

better tybald ever in grig version,ALEXANDER GODUNOV,is the evil made person.many villains are really great roles,as in james bond movies

[mylittleparrot]

My lord, he danced like a tiger.

[magnumSuper]

@mylittleparrot

Or lion, with his blond mane.

One fan, deliciacobri, actually a poet, wrote

watch?v=VRP70t6T5do

verses in description.

[Bnesque]

@magnumSuper He reminds me this passage:

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye 

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

[magnumSuper]

@Bnesque yeaa. It's pity Tibalt in Lavrovsky version has no dancing. But it was created for Yermolaev, Godunov's ballet mentor, who was injured severely at the age of 27 and couldn't do real dancing by the time Lavrovsky's version was released. But Yermolaev gave his Tybalt passion to Alexander, no doubt about that.

[Bnesque]

@magnumSuper Again great knowledge from you! Definitely Yermolaev made Tybalt part into a great show casing of each dancer's acting skill. Though Grig version combat scene is so gorgeous!

[MaTani4ka]

Мир потерял великого танцовщика

[marcasalecchi]

Please, i need this video. Complete video. I love this ballet. You can help me? Send news for antonio.casalecchi@terra.com.b­r. Thank's some much. Marco.

[magnumSuper]

@marcasalecchi My dear, if you mean complete "Romeo and Juliet" by Grigorovich with Godunov as Tybalt, there is no such thing. The clip above is almost all that was filmed in 1979.

If you mean comlete ballet RD, Grigorovich version, you just google for this exact word combination

Romeo and Juliet S.Prokofiev 2004 Ballet rutracker

Luck!

[xanglat]

Very beautiful ! Great song ! Homme de charme... fait pour rêver ! Rires !

Bel hommage et M E R C I pour votre peine !

[magenchild]

One of many examples that show there are no small roles.

[magnumSuper]

@magenchild

It wasn't a small role. Tybalt was a center of the performance. And critics wrote Romeo and Juleitte were like background figures... That's a paradox of Grig's style: evil characters in his balelts are much more fascinating and captivating than all the others. Crassus, Tybalt, Queen of the Mountain, or Abderakhman in his version of Raymonda.

[magenchild]

He must have made it a big role to upstage Romeo and Juliet, and I wish I had been able to see this performance.

[pediatrapaola]

@magnumSuper AS IN JAMES BOND MOVIE VILLAINS ARE GREAT

[magnumSuper]

@pediatrapaola Yes, and as a rule they are more interesting than Bond himself.

[Qbendanny]

He interpreted many great parts, but what really made them great was his personality, which was more interesting than the actual parts.

[missblairW1]

OMG i love him so much why did he have too die :(

[Balakireva]

Одна моя знакомая сказала, что считает балет "холодным" видом искусства - это видео прямое опровержение этих слов! сколько экспрессии, эмоций!

[cessarelbu]

DIE HARD !!!

[ohhrichie]

WOW

[doc432ify]

the way he slides his foot over the dancer on the floor is fabulous

[magnumSuper]

yep. Sizzling and mean. Best villain in ballet, huh?)) And some people think - in movies too.

It's a pity he turned down Crassus part in Spartacus.

Though as Spartacus he "was fire and flame", as American critics noted in 1979.

[girljazzlvr]

magnificent

[IndigoRose9]

THAT VIEW OF HIS FACE AT THE START OF THIS WAY TOO BRIEF VIDEO !!! Gasp !!! --- Absolutely Gorgeous Truly, I think that this is the most Sexy and Manly Ballet Performance I have ever seen, HOW I WOULD LOVED LOVED TO HAVE SEEN THIS BALLET, "Romeo & Juliet" when it was done at the New York State Theatre in 1979 !!! If I am right, it was a few days later that Alexander Godunov defected, very brave thing to do... He was a Flame, wasn't he ... Many Thanks for this video !!!

[HelgaMaq]

I've seen at last this USA film abot G&stars's tour in 1984. He was so happy,so young, full of hope...

[magnumSuper]

His hopes had come true, partly, he danced several more years and then became a Hollywood star.

Our dreams never come true completely, 100 per cent, it's just not how it works, 'cause there're always more, more wishes and horizons, it never ends,,,

[pediatrapaola]

his tybald is not only a villain is the evil made man absolutely great

[opensecret51]

@pediatrapaola Again Thanks !Such a great performance, what a great and ELEGANT villain , poring

all this evil posion around!!!!!GREAT

[Bnesque]

@opensecret51 Look at that all-cap comment from pedia! That is what we miss most!!!

[opensecret51]

@Bnesque Absolutly ,,We miss him and his comments !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[magnumSuper]

@opensecret51 Enrico is alive, he is just very busy.

[magnumSuper]

in 1982

[HelgaMaq]

Oh! Thank you! And I remember him in this part in the white suit...Could it be? One of his best parts in BT, I think.

[magnumSuper]

Well, you know, I don't think so... white color belongs to Mercutio... but everything's possible, who knows.

[magnumSuper]

I remember American ballet critic Laura Jacobs wrote: Grigorovich favors long diagonals across the stage--leap, leap, leap, bronze pose!--and Spartacus spends more time in the air than on the ground. For sheer stamina, there isn't a man on ABT's roster, and I mean no disrespect in this, you can imagine getting through the role, and I doubt any would want to."

Same goes to Tybald part, doesn't it. He is a real macho and projects incredible manly strength... negative strength though...