Legendary Ballerina Celebrates 50th Wedding Anniversary
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Uploaded by NTDTV on Oct 6, 2008
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And in Russia two cultural icons celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Thursday - legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and her husband composer Rodion Shchedrin. Here's more from Moscow.
STORY:
In front of an audience in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory the pair hosted a celebration concert.
In a recent interview in their Moscow home, Shchedrin talks about their life together.
[Rodion Shchedrin, Russian Composer]:
"We say, "don't worry its all going to be ok.
Quoting 'Ruslan and Ludmila' by Alexander Pushkin, 'Success is followed by sorrow, but out of sorrow comes joy' - and so on, and it makes everything all right, we don't need to look for anything more."
Plisetskaya recalls how a friend wished the couple well when they married.
[Maya Plisetskaya, Prima Ballerina]:
"She wished for us the chance to grow old together on one pillow."
[Rodion Shchedrin, Russian Composer]:
"And actually that is what we are doing!"
Plisetskaya became a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet in 1943 and a Prima ballerina in 1962. For many years she was excluded from tours to the West due to political reasons. But in 1959 she was finally allowed to join a tour to the US and the American audience loved her.
The couple married in 1958, and in later years Shchedrin often composed music especially for his wife.
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@enaralva "At 60 I expect to be able to walk at least." LOL!
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Is there some magic secret that ballet preserves youth? Because at 61 Maya dances like she were 25. At 60 I expect to be able to walk at least. She is simple marvelous.
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In Latvia Russian people live under terrible discrimination
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Belleza, perfeccion y genialidad!
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Lithuanian, not Latvian
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Plisetskaya has Latvian citizenship,but she was born in Moscow and danced all her life at the Bolshoi. She is Jewish.
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@TheHelmis007 Maybe bcuz they ARE russians?
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Thank you very much for this reportage and trubut !
I appreciate a lot
With respect for...her tragic and difficult life she had !
A beautiful leçon de vie, de force, de volonté, de détermination ....en sus dotée d'un talent fou !
With intense admiration for her = Lady , avec admiration pour cette grande Dame!!
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I can imagine them at their home, him playing the piano, and her dancing in the living room... that´s the way artists should grow old...
Maya... one and only...perfect and beautiful
odile77 2 years ago 27
How can she be so gorgeous??
jkircher314 2 years ago 17