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Carmen suite habanera - Maya Plisetskaya ballet

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Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya bailando Carmen Música de Georges Bizet (adaptada por Rodion Shchedrin) Coreografía: Alberto Alonso Escenografía: Boris Messerer Vestuario: Salvador Fernandez Suite estrenada por el Ballet Bolshoi, en Moscú el 20 de abril de 1967. [se trata del primer ballet coreografeado para Maya Plisetskaya -en el papel de Carmen- por Alberto Alonso] ________________________________________ [...] Alonso began to create his Carmen before a note of the music was prepared. Two years before he visited Moscow and worked with Plisetskaya he began working out movements with members of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Only once Shchedrin saw the rehearsals with Plisetskaya did he commit to writing the music. The scenario was developed by Alonso and departs from the familiar opera plot. The emphasis is on the characters of Carmen, Don José and the toreador rather than the plot. The setting is an abstraction of a bullring with dancers in masks seated on tall stools representing the spectators. The fatal contest within this arena of life is between Carmen and her Fate - in the manifestation of a black bull. Neither is victorious; they die simultaneously because, as Plisetskaya explains, “Carmen and her fate are one and the same.“ Boris Messerer designed the set. [...]

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