Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Marinsky Theatre) [Blu-ray]

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Marinsky Theatre) [Blu-ray]
by Mikhail Chemiakin

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Actor: Christopher Recupito Rossi, Irina Golub, Leonid Sarafanov
Director: Mikhail Chemiakin
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Decca

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Movie Review: Ugly
Summary: 1 Stars

I guess the Russians have succomed to the same silliness. Why production designers have to take traditional works (yes they are museum pieces, but museums exhibit many beautiful things) and make them ugly is easy to understand. They want to be "different." Tchaikovsky's music does not go well with this production from the Marinsky (formerly Kirov)ballet. Yes, I know that E.T.A. Hoffman's original "Nutcracker" is darker than what has traditionally been presented, but Tchaikovsky wrote the music for a lighter, brighter production design. If you think giant houseflies, snow maidens dressed in black, and choruses of dead, pale childred are beautiful, you will like this atrocity. The blue-ray technology is good, but what a waste of technology!

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Summary of Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Marinsky Theatre) [Blu-ray]

Filmed in the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg where the ballet was first performed in 1892. The production, by world-renowned avant-garde artist Mikhail Shemiakin, is a more mature, "adult" version of The Nutcracker, highlighting many of the darker themes. The eye-catching costumes and scenery help create the surreal atmosphere. The dancing, led by Leonid Sarafanov and Irina Golub, is of the highest quality and displays the very distinctive and exacting qualities of the Mariinsky Theatre. Valery Gergiev conducts the complete, un-cut version of Tchaikovsky's most popular score. With an image up to six times sharper than conventional DVD and superior high-definition sound, Blu-Ray lets you watch opera and ballet performances from the front row of the theater. Experience every detail, no matter how small, in the highest quality possible. With five times the memory of standard DVDs, Blu-Ray is a completely new way to experience the theater at home.

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