A dream cast of this Nureyev's Don Quixote! Highlights by the Paris Opera Ballet : Kitri : Sylvie Guillem; Basilio : Nicolas Leriche; Dryad Queen : Agnes Letestu.
I was totally blown away by all the dancers in this video. Sylvie's presence throughout the whole production was just so charming. I couldn't keep my eyes off her at all. This is ballet at its finest. :)
even though I am a huge fan of Russian ballet dancers,I must admit Guillem is a great dancer and one of the best ever.The hight of her kick is just breath taking,wow AMAZING! Bravo,standing ovation.
What a goddess. What an absolute divine beauty. Surely she can't be human. That last développé has just slain me with its painfully pure perfection. The way she raised her leg, it was poetry. It was music. It seems I have me a new all-time favourite dancer.
Woah, a minute into the video and I am already shocked at how good she is as Kitri! Her usage of the fan is unparalleled; sometimes I feel that more recent ballerinas don't use the fan to their advantage. It can be simply sensational when used without fear (of breaking, that is), as demonstrated here. Wonderful Sylvie who never disappoints...!
Sylvie is wonderful. One of my five favourires dancers of all times 😍. She can dance any role and perfect, from Carmen to Giselle. Then is when I see that is a great artist. She has danced the best Raymonda, one of the most difficult roles in a ballet
Guillem is a force of nature, to be sure. Le Riche is on fire here as well (wish there was more of his dancing shown). And Letestu once again shows herself to be the perfect representation of the French school.
I have seen the same at La Scala. Me and my friend were cheering so loud from the stalls that people even complained about us. The atmosphere was like at a rock concert. She had so much temperament and beauty and class that everyone else on stage looked dowdy and meaningless. She upstaged everyone, and especially the poor Roberto Bolle who was simply not in his element as Basilio. Sylvie blew la Scala away that night. She has a heart full of passion. And I pity the ones who could not see that.
@@alainspiteri502 Sure. NOTHING else. We spoke so many times about it privately. We know each other since ever. You know everything about me and what I like. What I know. So why saying it here? (-:
Sylvie is just sensational ! I love how she re-invents each step, the third act's variation was just woaaaa ! I just wanted to underline Letestu's BEAUTIFUL performance as Queen of Dryads. Her extensions are near Guillem's and her legwork is sooo pure ! Her fouettés were so strong ! Even Guillem's are not that strong.
Sylvie interpretation of Dulcinea in PERFECT. She is supposed to be Quioxte's idea of the perfect woman and this is so clear with Sylvie. The role of Dulcinea is overlooked by many and usually danced with just a sweet smile, but Sylvie makes it look like she is actually in love with him. Bravo Sylvie, Bravo
The definitive Kitri of all times. When you see her you see fire, apssion but also elegance and greta beauty something that some of the "celebrated" Russian Kitris of our days tend to forget. The best of the best.
Ha, ha. Jamais je n'oserais citer quelqu'un de précis. Bon puisque tu insistes, c'est vrai que je pensais fortement, entre autres, à une certaine jeune danseuse russe, très en vogue aujourd'hui qui danse régulièrement aussi au Royal Ballet. Avec une technique trop évidente et sans finesse. Tandis que dans le cas de la Kitri de Sylvie tout y est. Le feu, la grâce, la finesse et l'élégance.
Why should she be like a Russian ballerina? As good as the Russian school is, the Paris Opera ballet school has its own style. Sylvie has it all, the grace, the beauty, this apparently sublime effortless technique and to top it all this terrific musicality. Surely the best ballerina of this century.
Oh to have some ballets starring Sylvie on DVD! There are few enough of Fonteyn and Ulanova because the technology wasn't around, but Sylvie simply wouldn't allow her work to be filmed (officially) so all we have are these rare precious snippets!!
Guillem is just beyond brilliant! She grabs the character of Katrina by the throat and shakes her up good, but her elegance and passion is all within the bounds of the infinite good taste expected of prima ballerinas! I love watching Letestu, but her characterizations seem to be always the same, I’ve never seen her dance with Guillem’s passion. I certainly can’t imagine her lifting her skirts for the monks, lol! Letestu’s technique and beauty are amazing, but she just never lets herself go.
OMG 6:55! Agree with Nakis, and I've seen a lot of Kitris! I notice here she has an exquisite economy of movement I'm not used to seeing because she dances with such panache. (Agnes looks pretty good, too!) Thx for posting!
bravoo sylvie,je pleure .....tu es magique,sublime,une nymphe,un belle etoile....je pleure et je pleure..je suis heureuse, quel bonheur! quelle extase! une danseuse etoile, mercii😍🤩🥰😘😇🌞🌞🌞🌟☀
She's one of a kind and an anomaly in her time. I've not seen any ballerina surpass her technically yet. One thing I noticed that I've seen her do a better version of the variation at 3:00 in this video. Not that I'm complaining about this one, but I do wish we had some better video footage of more of her performances. It's ashamed that more of her dances weren't filmed in HD. I seriously hope that they got her in HD in 2011 when she put on pointe shoes again.
Wonderful, really dream cast, especially Guillem as Kitri and Letestu as Dryad Queen. I enjoyed that so much that I would really like to see entire spectacle. Maybe one day you'll decide to share it with us?;) And by the way, Guillem in third act has extraordinary white tutu with a long sleeves, just fabulous, gorgeous!
Many of you may posess the language and knowledge regarding technique, but, for me, no other dance has moved me quite like Sylvie. I've relished her every move!
I have never found Sylvie's extensions vulgar, in anything she has done. There is a time and place for extension yes but there is never any feeling behind it with other ballerinas, Sylvie is the only exception.
Her “perfect technique” isn’t Russian at all….she’s pure French Opera Ballet! There are a great many people who don’t hold the Russians up as the best in the world anymore. The French had regained their prominence before Nureyev got there, or else he wouldn’t have been able to promote Guillem to Principal so soon after his arrival. The Royal Ballet has also attained huge status in the past 20 years, so now each style of dance is equal in quality to the others, but with technical differences. There are trends in each I’m not terribly excited about these days, but that purely subjective.
Qui a vu Sylvie Guillem danser la reine des Dryades se souvient comme elle poussait l'orchestre à changer de tempo car elle s'arrêtait en pause à chaque équilibre. La série des fouettés à la fin était halucinante, comme dans un mouvement décomposé au ralenti, et la valse devenait planante et méconnaissable...Rien à voir avec ça!
@sangfroidjen Which makes it just makes it that more incredible to watch, physically I mean but she puts so much actual artistry into it. That sky high efface develope in her variation, if anyone else would have done that, it would have been criticized as untasteful and vulgar but not her, and it is very easy to make Kitri look like that.
Bonsoir. Je suis désolée, je ne parle pas Italien mais j'ai quand même compris ce que vous vouliez dire et je suis d'accord avec vous : Sylvie Guillem a une technique parfaite mais son interprétation de Kitri est froide. Il lui manque un peu de sensualité et d'âme... Sylvie Guillem, en fait, est absolument parfaite en danse contemporaine (Béjart, Forsythe...) Buona notte.
Je suis d'accord/sono d'accordo/avec vous deux/con voi due: did you see Marianela Nunez in this role? She is joy, fire, passion, lightness and light, a little coquettish, a little mischievous.
Nureyev's choreography based on Bolshoi Ballet choreography, but simplified. The orchestra plays slower some parts, which happens in the Bolshoi theatre for some ballerinas. The best performance in Don Quixote was shown by Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev in the seventies. After Nadezhda Pavlova and Sylvie Guillem all ballerinas think more about their extension and flexibility than artistic impression.
La meilleure de toutes .. Avec elle il y a toujours quelque chose de très personnel en plus de la perfection .
❤❤❤
Абсолютная чёткость, правильность, выверенность движений, красиво, превосходно, сочетание блестящей техники, артистичности, музыкальности, прекрасных пропорций тела.
Absolument!
I was totally blown away by all the dancers in this video. Sylvie's presence throughout the whole production was just so charming. I couldn't keep my eyes off her at all. This is ballet at its finest. :)
even though I am a huge fan of Russian ballet dancers,I must admit Guillem is a great dancer and one of the best ever.The hight of her kick is just breath taking,wow AMAZING! Bravo,standing ovation.
What a goddess. What an absolute divine beauty. Surely she can't be human. That last développé has just slain me with its painfully pure perfection. The way she raised her leg, it was poetry. It was music. It seems I have me a new all-time favourite dancer.
Волшебная балерина!С космическими данными!Браво!Стопа только чего "стоит"Глаз не оторвать!
Woah, a minute into the video and I am already shocked at how good she is as Kitri! Her usage of the fan is unparalleled; sometimes I feel that more recent ballerinas don't use the fan to their advantage. It can be simply sensational when used without fear (of breaking, that is), as demonstrated here. Wonderful Sylvie who never disappoints...!
Просто не могла отрваться от просмотра! И без навязчивой демонтстрации растяжки.
Sylvie is wonderful. One of my five favourires dancers of all times 😍.
She can dance any role and perfect, from Carmen to Giselle. Then is when I see that is a great artist. She has danced the best Raymonda, one of the most difficult roles in a ballet
Guillem is a force of nature, to be sure. Le Riche is on fire here as well (wish there was more of his dancing shown). And Letestu once again shows herself to be the perfect representation of the French school.
Dear TH-cam: There's a button that reads "I don't like" in Sylvie Guillem's videos. Please, correct the mistake. Thank you.
I have seen the same at La Scala. Me and my friend were cheering so loud from the stalls that people even complained about us. The atmosphere was like at a rock concert. She had so much temperament and beauty and class that everyone else on stage looked dowdy and meaningless. She upstaged everyone, and especially the poor Roberto Bolle who was simply not in his element as Basilio. Sylvie blew la Scala away that night. She has a heart full of passion. And I pity the ones who could not see that.
F m j understand you known Guillem only nothing more
@@alainspiteri502 Sure. NOTHING else. We spoke so many times about it privately. We know each other since ever. You know everything about me and what I like. What I know. So why saying it here? (-:
1998, I was there at that show that night. amazing!!!
Sylvie is just sensational !
I love how she re-invents each step, the third act's variation was just woaaaa !
I just wanted to underline Letestu's BEAUTIFUL performance as Queen of Dryads. Her extensions are near Guillem's and her legwork is sooo pure ! Her fouettés were so strong ! Even Guillem's are not that strong.
No one has Sylvie extension and steel like control
She is crazy ❣️😂That is not normal how she danced💕 BEYOND INSANE
Sylvie is my favorite dancer ever she is in a class of her own ..miss her very much🎉Bravo❤
Sylvie interpretation of Dulcinea in PERFECT. She is supposed to be Quioxte's idea of the perfect woman and this is so clear with Sylvie. The role of Dulcinea is overlooked by many and usually danced with just a sweet smile, but Sylvie makes it look like she is actually in love with him. Bravo Sylvie, Bravo
I saw her in 1999 in palais garnier, with nicolas le riche. what a fantastic performance¡¡¡
She was lovely in her white tutu¡¡¡ LOVELY :-)
The golden age of Paris Opera Ballet...
I agree.
I must admit I changed my mind about Sylvie as Kitri after watching this a second time:D I find her fabulous now! What charm and what elegance!
The definitive Kitri of all times. When you see her you see fire, apssion but also elegance and greta beauty something that some of the "celebrated" Russian Kitris of our days tend to forget. The best of the best.
Ha, ha. Jamais je n'oserais citer quelqu'un de précis. Bon puisque tu insistes, c'est vrai que je pensais fortement, entre autres, à une certaine jeune danseuse russe, très en vogue aujourd'hui qui danse régulièrement aussi au Royal Ballet. Avec une technique trop évidente et sans finesse. Tandis que dans le cas de la Kitri de Sylvie tout y est. Le feu, la grâce, la finesse et l'élégance.
Nakis Ioannides and
ouais ... je préfère Sylvie aussi
No,no,no, Ekaterina Maximova, Maya Plisetskaya, Nina Anashiniva, and Diana Vishneva are also the best of the bests.
Nakis Ioannides 3e
Le plus beau sourire éclatant sur scène est, incontestablement, celui de Sylvie: il éclabousse tout le monde par sa générosité et sa fraîcheur.
the greatest of all ! Guillem the best dancer in the world
Sylvie is magnifique !!
mediocre at best
rare perfection.. they don't come this way anymore.
Почти как русская балерина! Легкость абсолютная в танце, как будто и не устала , и конечно же красиво!
Лучше чем русская
Why should she be like a Russian ballerina? As good as the Russian school is, the Paris Opera ballet school has its own style. Sylvie has it all, the grace, the beauty, this apparently sublime effortless technique and to top it all this terrific musicality. Surely the best ballerina of this century.
Это русские почти как Гиллем
Это русские почти как Гиллем.
maravilloso!! lleno de belleza!! la armonía del movimiento!! agradezco mucho estas reproduccione
Quelle élégance !!! et quelle technique, mais on ne sent aucun effort, cela parait si facile, si évident, et elle en a encore sous le chausson !!!!
Спасибо за видео! Гиллем - восторг! Брависсимо!
such power! definitely one of the best kitri
totally luv it
Best ballerina I've ever seen.
I agree. Letestu was really living that role and her fouettes were soooooo pretty.
fantastique; beaucoup de force
GUILLEM FOR EVER ❤️
Oh to have some ballets starring Sylvie on DVD! There are few enough of Fonteyn and Ulanova because the technology wasn't around, but Sylvie simply wouldn't allow her work to be filmed (officially) so all we have are these rare precious snippets!!
Guillem is just beyond brilliant! She grabs the character of Katrina by the throat and shakes her up good, but her elegance and passion is all within the bounds of the infinite good taste expected of prima ballerinas! I love watching Letestu, but her characterizations seem to be always the same, I’ve never seen her dance with Guillem’s passion. I certainly can’t imagine her lifting her skirts for the monks, lol! Letestu’s technique and beauty are amazing, but she just never lets herself go.
Letestu perhaps is very reserved and academic.
Spettacolare Sylvie!
OMG 6:55! Agree with Nakis, and I've seen a lot of Kitris! I notice here she has an exquisite economy of movement I'm not used to seeing because she dances with such panache. (Agnes looks pretty good, too!) Thx for posting!
seamless combination of beauty and dynamics !!!
i love her in this role! she's so energetic and cute!!
Великолепная Китри !!!
they all are amazing. this is the best i've seen from Agnes.
Абсолют во всём!!! Феноменально!!!
She is another one of my Ballet Role Models/Heroes. Truly amazing, just wow :)
LOVE Agnes Letestu:) that was perfect
I love her.
上品なキトリですね。優雅でうっとりします。
Spectacular!
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bravoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the best of all....the goddesssss of all dance
The best Kitri ever!
Charming, beautiful, and artistic!
Exquisite! ❤
La perfection
bravoo sylvie,je pleure .....tu es magique,sublime,une nymphe,un belle etoile....je pleure et je pleure..je suis heureuse, quel bonheur! quelle extase! une danseuse etoile, mercii😍🤩🥰😘😇🌞🌞🌞🌟☀
the best Kitri ever
Yes , The best ever !!
i haven't cried in a good while. thanks for posting! made my month!
Безвпречная балерина с легкостью и блеском танцуетсамо совершенство глаз не отвести супер звезда мирового балета
¡ con qué facilidad, gracia y elegancia baila esta grande del ballet
She's one of a kind and an anomaly in her time. I've not seen any ballerina surpass her technically yet.
One thing I noticed that I've seen her do a better version of the variation at 3:00 in this video. Not that I'm complaining about this one, but I do wish we had some better video footage of more of her performances. It's ashamed that more of her dances weren't filmed in HD. I seriously hope that they got her in HD in 2011 when she put on pointe shoes again.
Wonderful, really dream cast, especially Guillem as Kitri and Letestu as Dryad Queen. I enjoyed that so much that I would really like to see entire spectacle. Maybe one day you'll decide to share it with us?;)
And by the way, Guillem in third act has extraordinary white tutu with a long sleeves, just fabulous, gorgeous!
Many of you may posess the language and knowledge regarding technique, but, for me, no other dance has moved me quite like Sylvie. I've relished her every move!
Maravilhoso.!
I have never found Sylvie's extensions vulgar, in anything she has done. There is a time and place for extension yes but there is never any feeling behind it with other ballerinas, Sylvie is the only exception.
Totally agree …part of her genius🎉
Sylvie Guillem es una bailarina perfecta. Combina la técnica perfecta de la escuela Rusa con la gracia y expresividad latina.
Her “perfect technique” isn’t Russian at all….she’s pure French Opera Ballet! There are a great many people who don’t hold the Russians up as the best in the world anymore. The French had regained their prominence before Nureyev got there, or else he wouldn’t have been able to promote Guillem to Principal so soon after his arrival. The Royal Ballet has also attained huge status in the past 20 years, so now each style of dance is equal in quality to the others, but with technical differences. There are trends in each I’m not terribly excited about these days, but that purely subjective.
She has it all, A fine role model for aspiring ballerinas!
Great and such bravura!
Sylvie is the best,ever!!
Je ne pensais pas que ce soit possible de danser DQ comme ça..... Wahou.....
jamais égalée...hors du commun comme d'habitude c'est la danseuse du XXe siècle
i love her as kitri!!!
the greatest
divine guillem!!!
Those legs! And what an exquisite moves...she is the best
Maravillosa S. Guillem
Excelentes !!! Vídeos para el Alma , , ,
Letestu, oh my god.
Is that all you have to say of this video?!?!?!? ahaahhahaah (-:
This is the best I've ever since of Letestu. She's magnificent!!!! Not so much in other clips.
Annabella Escobar Agreed.
Agnes Letetsu is fantastic in la dame aux camélias
She's something else
omg she is amazing
superb!
No one has better feet than Sylvie Guillem.
Woooooooooooooooow! This is a TREAT!!
ESPLENDIDO
gourgeous Guillem
Wow..........
jun-seok lee gracias!!
can you tell us where to buy this video?
Sylvie Guillem is the best ballerina i have ever seen.
she's stronger than any male dancer
Exquisite! The Ballerina's Ballerina! 💐💕🍀 🩰
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
WOW
Qui a vu Sylvie Guillem danser la reine des Dryades se souvient comme elle poussait l'orchestre à changer de tempo car elle s'arrêtait en pause à chaque équilibre. La série des fouettés à la fin était halucinante, comme dans un mouvement décomposé au ralenti, et la valse devenait planante et méconnaissable...Rien à voir avec ça!
Eblouissant!
@sangfroidjen Which makes it just makes it that more incredible to watch, physically I mean but she puts so much actual artistry into it. That sky high efface develope in her variation, if anyone else would have done that, it would have been criticized as untasteful and vulgar but not her, and it is very easy to make Kitri look like that.
Sulle doti fisiche e sulla tecnica di Sylvie non discuto,è magnifica. Tropppo fredda nell'interpretazione di Kitri.
Bonsoir. Je suis désolée, je ne parle pas Italien mais j'ai quand même compris ce que vous vouliez dire et je suis d'accord avec vous : Sylvie Guillem a une technique parfaite mais son interprétation de Kitri est froide. Il lui manque un peu de sensualité et d'âme... Sylvie Guillem, en fait, est absolument parfaite en danse contemporaine (Béjart, Forsythe...) Buona notte.
Je suis d'accord/sono d'accordo/avec vous deux/con voi due: did you see Marianela Nunez in this role? She is joy, fire, passion, lightness and light, a little coquettish, a little mischievous.
Correct at 3:00 it's Agnès Letestu!
В русском варианте темп намного быстрее... И все получается ярче!
Нуреев по своему всё это переделал и в левую сторону круги запускает
Совершенно похоронный темп, трудно смотреть после Плисецкой.
В русском варианте темп быстрее и постановка сложнее.
Нет экспрессии, огня, динамики! Безжизненно как-то, скучно! Гимнастика сплошная!
Красиво...
Nureyev's choreography based on Bolshoi Ballet choreography, but simplified. The orchestra plays slower some parts, which happens in the Bolshoi theatre for some ballerinas. The best performance in Don Quixote was shown by Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev in the seventies. After Nadezhda Pavlova and Sylvie Guillem all ballerinas think more about their extension and flexibility than artistic impression.
珍しく楽しそうに踊ってる。