Concerto
Concerto is a one-act ballet in three movements created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1966 for the Deutsche Oper Ballet. The music is Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto (1957). The ballet premiered on 30 November 1966.
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Concerto is a one-act ballet in three movements created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1966 for the Deutsche Oper Ballet. The music is Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto (1957). The ballet premiered on 30 November 1966.
Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 (1957). The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. The ballet's title derives from the composer's use of DSCH, his musical monogram.
Katyusha Maslova is seduced by Dmitri Nekhlyudov and dismissed from his aunts’ estate; after her child dies, she becomes a prostitute. She is implicated in a merchant’s murder and put on trial. Nekhlyudov later seeks her forgiveness in prison, and she joins political prisoners traveling to Siberia, where she marries another prisoner after receiving a pardon.
Set in 1682 Moscow, the opera depicts political conflict among Prince Ivan Khovansky and the Streltsy, the Old Believers led by Dosifey, and the supporters of Tsar Peter. Khovansky is murdered, Golitsin is exiled, and the Streltsy are pardoned. Dosifey, Marfa, Andrey Khovansky, and the Old Believers ultimately die by self-immolation as Peter’s forces approach.
Katerina lives unhappily with her husband Zinovy and his father Boris. She begins an affair with Sergei, a worker on the family estate. After Boris catches Sergei leaving Katerina’s room and has him beaten, Katerina poisons Boris. When Zinovy discovers the affair, Katerina and Sergei kill him and hide his body. They marry, but the corpse is found and both are sent to a Siberian prison camp. Sergei pursues another convict, Sonyetka, and tricks Katerina into giving up her stockings for her. After the other convicts mock her, Katerina pushes Sonyetka into an icy river and falls in herself.
A 70-minute ballet adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, created by Davide Bombana with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, György Ligeti, Alfred Schnittke, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with costumes designed by Carole Divet. The ballet premiered on April 28, 2000 at the New York State Theater. The first movement features a male soloist, two female demi-soloists, four male demi-soloists and a corps de ballet of twelve women. The second movement is a pas de deux. The entire cast then return to the stage for the final movement. In 2020, in response to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the performing arts, the New York City Ballet will release a 2017 video recording of the pas de deux from Mercurial Manoeuvres, featuring Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle.
New tenants in the Cheryomushki housing development struggle to get their apartment keys from corrupt managers Barabashkin and Drebednev, who have combined apartments for Drebednev’s girlfriend. Boris uses a construction crane to get Lidochka and her father inside, exposing the scheme. The tenants unite against the bureaucrats, who are finally made to confess through the residents’ magical garden.
An unfinished satirical opera planned as a prologue and three acts, centered on Orango, a human-ape hybrid created in a medical experiment. Only about a quarter of the prologue survives; the completed fragment was first performed in an orchestration by Gerard McBurney.
Yakov Ivanov, a coffin-maker and amateur fiddler, quarrels with the local musicians and treats the Jewish musician Rothschild with contempt. As his wife Marfa lies dying, she recalls their little daughter, who died decades earlier. Ivanov reflects on the life he has wasted and on his mistreatment of Marfa and Rothschild; after her death, he gives his violin to Rothschild, who plays it.
On his wedding day in 1929, Ivan Prisypkin is frozen with a bedbug and revived fifty years later in a utopian Soviet society that has eliminated poverty and familiar vices. Treated as a relic, he becomes a human exhibit at a zoo.
The unfinished opera was conceived around a team of Soviet specialists visiting America. Shostakovich wrote an overture and eight further pieces, lasting about 17 minutes.
In a Russian provincial inn, card sharp Icharjev meets three other gamblers. They decide to cheat the elderly estate owner Michail Glov through his son Alexander, who signs a bill for 200,000 rubles. The others pass the bill to Icharjev, take his cash, and leave on a pretext. Alexander then reveals that they were a gang of card sharps who have cheated Icharjev.
Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes to find that his nose has disappeared. A barber discovers it in a loaf of bread and tries to dispose of it, while Kovalyov encounters the nose dressed as an official of higher rank. It refuses to acknowledge him. Police eventually capture the nose and return it, but Kovalyov cannot put it back on his face. He suspects Madame Podtochina, whose daughter he declined to marry, but she denies any role. The city becomes consumed by rumors about the missing nose. Kovalyov later wakes with it reattached and returns to his usual routine.
The operetta is based on Ilf and Petrov’s novel The Twelve Chairs. Shostakovich left it unfinished, and only a little of its music survives.
Concerto is a one-act ballet in three movements created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1966 for the Deutsche Oper Ballet. The music is Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto (1957). The ballet premiered on 30 November 1966.
Concerto DSCH is a ballet by Alexei Ratmansky choreographed for the New York City Ballet to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Op. 102 (1957). The premiere took place on Thursday, May 29, 2008, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. The ballet's title derives from the composer's use of DSCH, his musical monogram.
Katyusha Maslova is seduced by Dmitri Nekhlyudov and dismissed from his aunts’ estate; after her child dies, she becomes a prostitute. She is implicated in a merchant’s murder and put on trial. Nekhlyudov later seeks her forgiveness in prison, and she joins political prisoners traveling to Siberia, where she marries another prisoner after receiving a pardon.
Set in 1682 Moscow, the opera depicts political conflict among Prince Ivan Khovansky and the Streltsy, the Old Believers led by Dosifey, and the supporters of Tsar Peter. Khovansky is murdered, Golitsin is exiled, and the Streltsy are pardoned. Dosifey, Marfa, Andrey Khovansky, and the Old Believers ultimately die by self-immolation as Peter’s forces approach.
Katerina lives unhappily with her husband Zinovy and his father Boris. She begins an affair with Sergei, a worker on the family estate. After Boris catches Sergei leaving Katerina’s room and has him beaten, Katerina poisons Boris. When Zinovy discovers the affair, Katerina and Sergei kill him and hide his body. They marry, but the corpse is found and both are sent to a Siberian prison camp. Sergei pursues another convict, Sonyetka, and tricks Katerina into giving up her stockings for her. After the other convicts mock her, Katerina pushes Sonyetka into an icy river and falls in herself.
A 70-minute ballet adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel, created by Davide Bombana with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, György Ligeti, Alfred Schnittke, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
Mercurial Manoeuvres is a ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with costumes designed by Carole Divet. The ballet premiered on April 28, 2000 at the New York State Theater. The first movement features a male soloist, two female demi-soloists, four male demi-soloists and a corps de ballet of twelve women. The second movement is a pas de deux. The entire cast then return to the stage for the final movement. In 2020, in response to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the performing arts, the New York City Ballet will release a 2017 video recording of the pas de deux from Mercurial Manoeuvres, featuring Tiler Peck and Tyler Angle.
New tenants in the Cheryomushki housing development struggle to get their apartment keys from corrupt managers Barabashkin and Drebednev, who have combined apartments for Drebednev’s girlfriend. Boris uses a construction crane to get Lidochka and her father inside, exposing the scheme. The tenants unite against the bureaucrats, who are finally made to confess through the residents’ magical garden.
An unfinished satirical opera planned as a prologue and three acts, centered on Orango, a human-ape hybrid created in a medical experiment. Only about a quarter of the prologue survives; the completed fragment was first performed in an orchestration by Gerard McBurney.
Yakov Ivanov, a coffin-maker and amateur fiddler, quarrels with the local musicians and treats the Jewish musician Rothschild with contempt. As his wife Marfa lies dying, she recalls their little daughter, who died decades earlier. Ivanov reflects on the life he has wasted and on his mistreatment of Marfa and Rothschild; after her death, he gives his violin to Rothschild, who plays it.
On his wedding day in 1929, Ivan Prisypkin is frozen with a bedbug and revived fifty years later in a utopian Soviet society that has eliminated poverty and familiar vices. Treated as a relic, he becomes a human exhibit at a zoo.
The unfinished opera was conceived around a team of Soviet specialists visiting America. Shostakovich wrote an overture and eight further pieces, lasting about 17 minutes.
In a Russian provincial inn, card sharp Icharjev meets three other gamblers. They decide to cheat the elderly estate owner Michail Glov through his son Alexander, who signs a bill for 200,000 rubles. The others pass the bill to Icharjev, take his cash, and leave on a pretext. Alexander then reveals that they were a gang of card sharps who have cheated Icharjev.
Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes to find that his nose has disappeared. A barber discovers it in a loaf of bread and tries to dispose of it, while Kovalyov encounters the nose dressed as an official of higher rank. It refuses to acknowledge him. Police eventually capture the nose and return it, but Kovalyov cannot put it back on his face. He suspects Madame Podtochina, whose daughter he declined to marry, but she denies any role. The city becomes consumed by rumors about the missing nose. Kovalyov later wakes with it reattached and returns to his usual routine.
The operetta is based on Ilf and Petrov’s novel The Twelve Chairs. Shostakovich left it unfinished, and only a little of its music survives.