Hold on! This is Borodin's Boris Godunov. Not Prince Igor. The choreography for the Polovtsian Dances performed at the debut performance in around 1904 was created by Michel Fokine with Nijinsky and is the the standard version performed by the Kirov, now Mariinsky Theatre. The Bolshoi has done the Messerer choreography. Compare the two performances and Dance Companies. Both Genius. So different. Watching the 1951 performance above I feel I have died and gone to St. Petersburg, a trip I hope to make in this life to see the two Ballet companies.
I'm confused by your comment. This is from a film of a concert from 1951 and is most definitely Prince Igor. Mussorgsky wrote Boris Godunov, which was then edited by Rimsky-Korsakov and later by Shostakovich.
Этот фильм я смотрел единственный раз в 1964 году. Тогда меня потрясло это произведение. И вот мне 64 года и я опять его вижу и опять мурашки по коже.
this is where words fail...Thank you for posting!
The very best of the best Polovtsian Dances.
Hold on! This is Borodin's Boris Godunov. Not Prince Igor. The choreography for the Polovtsian Dances performed at the debut performance in around 1904 was created by Michel Fokine with Nijinsky and is the the standard version performed by the Kirov, now Mariinsky Theatre. The Bolshoi has done the Messerer choreography. Compare the two performances and Dance Companies. Both Genius. So different. Watching the 1951 performance above I feel I have died and gone to St. Petersburg, a trip I hope to make in this life to see the two Ballet companies.
I'm confused by your comment. This is from a film of a concert from 1951 and is most definitely Prince Igor. Mussorgsky wrote Boris Godunov, which was then edited by Rimsky-Korsakov and later by Shostakovich.
Is Messerer's choreography a standard for Prince Igor? I mean, is it the same choreography still today?