A sublime recording!! What a loss that nobody dances like this anymore!! Every dancer here is unique, still all dance in the greatest harmony and in service of their art. No personal mannerisms or idiotic acrobatic trics that so often disturb nowadays performances, but true poetry and aristocracy!!
Martin Meng l saw live luniov at his time in 80's and his ballon and elevation were not far from soloviev's .he was underrated when went in USA but was an exceptional dancer
DIVINE GALINA MEZENTSEVA!!! She epitomizes Russian Classical Ballet and is considered one of its most priceless jewels. Incomparable!!! DIAMOND shines among the stars of the Kirov Ballet.
Believe it or not they are actually dancing to recorded music, a common occurence in the Gosteleradio films (Bayadere with Komleva, Don Quixote with Terekhova, and many others). Fedotov was the actual conductor but for whatever reason they show someone else at the start.
A great Tschaikovsky conducter: first time I`ve seen such a near choreography, dancing and music! Excellent Pankova, Aijupova and Gusev, a brilliant shut the very good Zaklinsky with Mezentzeva. And so on and so on! Thank you for uploading dear Luise!🙂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I am English, and for me Galina Mezentseva is one of the all-time greats. I find your comment extraordinary and also quite insulting in its terminology to this wonderful ballerina. Whichever ballerina is one's personal favourite, no serious balletomane could deny the beautiul line, fluid arms like no other, legato movement and outstanding artistry that Mezentseva possessed. Her soul truly shone through her dancing and her Giselle and Odette/Odile in particular are works of genius.
I was watching Galina Mezentseva so many times I was students at conservatory in Leningrad that's time when she dance , she was absolutely awesome , totally different then others , of course so many new young ballerinas now and dancing beautiful but nobody dance like Mezentseva, she has some unique charisma
mezentseva is amazing as always. and i am so glad to see pankova/ayupova/lunyov pas de trois! i haven't watched this trio since russianballetvideos' channel was closed. i can't believe i was unaware of the existence of this video until now..
My favs too. Especially Elena is my all time favourite of favourite. She and Ruzimatov dancing together in DQ is bombastic. Her Gulinara is perfect as coquettish and vulnerable. Watching her in Scotch Symphony is a mirale!
Please accept my thanks for this upload. Galina was such exeptional dancer, but she did not receive attention she deserved outside Petersburg. I believe she left very strong legacy, that appreciation of her unique contribution to classical dance will grow with time.
Thank you very much for sharing your memory with us. Galina is my ultimate ballerina. I've been wondering why she seemed to suffer in this. This real feeling of suffering made this piece far more precious but my heart is always broken when I think what was happening to her there. Now I got the glimpse and appreciate this piece further more.
I AM ITALIAN AND LOVE HER .SHE WAS THE GREATEST KIROV DANCER EVER HER SWAN AND GISELLE ARE TO BE TESAURIZED,USUALLY I APPRECIATED YOUR COMMENTS BUT THIS ONE....
IS TRUE ,I SAW MANY GOOD DANCERS ,ALSO NOT RUSSIAN ,BUT THE GREATEST DANCERS AND ALL MY FAVOURITES ARE RUSSIANS AND AMONG THE BALLERINAS GALYA IS A DREAM DANCER.AMONG THE MEN ALL THE YOU TUBERS KNOW WHO IS MY FAVOURITE ,SO I DON'T BE BORING TELLING AGAIN.
Irresistibly charming first girl is Elena Pankova. Elegant second girl is Zhanna Ayupova. The guy with decent ballon is probably Alexander Lunyov. And your screenquality is far better than my worn out vhs lost in somewhere. So thank you very much!
Part One: My apologies to everyone for my less-than-flattering comments about Mezentseva. I know how it is to feel personally affronted when another presents an opinion decidedly different to one’s own. I had the great good fortune to see the Kirov in Los Angeles CA in 1986. The company received a rapturous ovation, at every performance, not only because of the quality of their dancing, but because their visit was a rare and very precious thing.
Я тоже считаю ее уникальной балериной, недооцененной, так мало видео сохранилось с ее участием! В то время, когда она создавала шедевры на сцене, внимание было привлечено в другим балерина. И вот через десятилетия выясняется, во всяком случае,для меня до ее планки мастерства истинного балета мало кто может дотянуться, даже с сегодняшним сверхтехничным балетом. Она обворожительна в Па-де-Катр.
There is no doubt they are both great dancers.... Technically there were some "petites defaillances" for her in Odile.... But it was a great performance anyway.... Russians have a long tradition of excellent school and I love them very much.... Bravo!
I would like to add some words about that record session. It lasted 5 days. In the Soviet Union there was practice to film ballets as follows: each scene was recorded separately = one day - one scene with a half-leg rehearsal before. Only after that they recoreded the whole ballet. At the last recording session of the whole ballet ( the famous white nights period ) there were serious problems with lighting.
It’s not about inferiority, it’s about differing tastes. I imagine ballet audiences in the former USSR and present day Russia to be among the most knowledgeable in the world, especially about Soviet-Russian-Vaganova-style ballet. The things they may favour, others might find peculiar, such as the erratic tempos, the inflexible pointework, the weakness in allegro. On the other hand, epaulement-starved American audiences LOVE the way Russian dancers use their whole upper body, arms and head.
today l whatched again whole it .may be is the onehundred time l do ,and still at every galya entrance l gasp as the first time .this couple is priceless in this.
Part Two: I attended almost all the performances and to this day, I remember the unparalleled living, breathing beauty of the corps de ballet in the white acts, the Mazurka and Spanish dances in the Ballroom scene. I remember Chenchikova's warm and sisterly Odette, Lyubov Kunakova's steely femininity and Altynai Asylmuratova's Hollywood star power. Mezensteva was the opening night Odette, and my least favourite. I just found her bewildering.
Believe it or not they are actually dancing to recorded music, a commn occurence in the Gosteleradio films, with live orchestra footage weaved in to create the impression of a 100% live performance. There was likely no audience either (other films with recorded music are Bayadere with Komleva, Don Quixote with Terekhova, Paquita with Komleva, and many others). I believe Viktor Fedotov was the actual conductor in the recording but for whatever reason they show someone else at the start.
Of course Galya was far from her best. I believe this was shot not lon after her terrible tendon rapture. She struggled lot on her steps and some of them became stiff. Still you can see most glorious arms and lines Vaganova style only can offer.Her suffering was real and she was introvert and looked like lock herself in her sorrow. This is a very unique and convinsing portrayal of Odette from another tormented soul like Tchaikovsky.
Part One: This is my point exactly, she was a hit in Leningrad and really, only in Leningrad. Oleg Vinogradov promoted her heavily during the Kirov’s1980s overseas tours but audiences in the West much preferred Terekhova and Chenchikova and most especially the very junior but extremely beautiful and charismatic Altynai Asylmuratova. Critics would write rather unkindly about the “dreaded Mezentseva” and her toes that “groped the floor”, rather than skimmed it.
She wasn`t really on her best days when dancing this ballet. Her left foot was visiblly sorrowed. She coudn`t even have the speed to execute the 32 fouettees. But, to compensate, her arms were so beautifull has always, a dream came true.
No flattery intended, at all. I reflect the general consensus among American audiences that our dancers are “over-trained” in the legs and woefully under-trained in the use of the upper body. That’s why to us, the Maryinsky corps is a revelation in just about everything they dance. On the other hand, it has taken over a decade for Vaganova-trained principal dancers to be brought up to speed, literally, in Balanchine’s fleet and speedy footwork. Speed and precision are still works in progress.
Part Two: Even taking into account regional tastes and cultural aesthetics, Galina Mezentseva was one of those ballerinas who you either “got”, or didn’t. I was one of those that DIDN’T get her, and consequently, never warmed to her. There’s just no accounting for balletomanes’ tastes. For example, I revere Natalia Makarova and I love almost everything she dances. Yet I have a very good balletomane friend who obsesses constantly about ballet but can’t stand watching Makarova! Go figure.
l appreciate all the dancers you told and chenchikova is doing a great job here in italy with la scala corps ,but comparation with galya is not possible ,her artystry is too superior.
l am not a dancer so may be l really do not realize all the weakness but she simply gives to me more emotions than every other dancer in these roles ,l also heard that she had some bad injury from which never fully recovered and due this matter gave her best before the filming of this and giselle.
I can't agree with you completely either in here. Some principals lack speed and precision, that's true. But there are great speed technicians are there. For example, Victoria Tereshkina or Valeria Martynyuk were really great in BI. In fact, it's Tereshkina's TPDD that made me re-aware how Balanchine is beautiful. For me, Balanchine works woke up just with Mariinsky ballerinas. Without crazy foot speed Ekaterina Kondaurova and Osmolkina redifined beauty of Serenade, to name a few.
she was always a great artist and his technique is refined and clean as I have rarely seen, but there was no evil in his face, and Odile is in principle an evil creature
Why only Leningrad? And Moscow ? And other cities and republics of the Soviet Union? Do not you know? I must tell you that her Giselle was considered by most prominent soviet ballet critics to be one of the greatest achievments of the Soviet ballet of the second half of the 20th century. Now it is clear - it is one of the greatest achievements in the world ballet history. And it is not Vinogradov but public opinion saw in Galina a genius. Please, be more correct.
The beginning of the white scene was suspended for more than an hour and a half . The curtain was up and right on the stage we could see Galina rehearsing. She seemed to be a little nervous. At least I thought she was. Noone knew when they would resume.It was really a tiring wating. One can easily imagine the psycologycal pressure Mezentseva had at those moments.
Engraçado você ter essa opinião Daniel! Em geral as pessoas, incluindo a mim, preferem a Mezentseva como Odette. Se você ler os comentários aqui vai descobrir que esse vídeo foi gravado pouco depois do retorno dela à atividade. E que o dia em que filmaram os atos brancos foi longo e doloroso pra ela. Sempre bom ver brasileiros tendo uma opinião e discutindo aqui. Tô cansada de ver os mesmos "linda, arrasou". :D
me too at that time had to read bad receptions of american critics about galya but infact these critics in my opinion didn't shine for their good taste.not appreciating mezentseva is a crime against the ballet .
COMPLETALY AGREE HER ARTISTRY CAN'T BE IN DISCUSSION NOT AMONG SERIOUS BALLET LOVERS.ALSO LOPATKINA CONSIDERS GALYA HER MAIN INSPIRATION.AS ALL KNOWS I AM MORE INTERESTED IN MALEDANCING ,MAY BE BECAUSE I AM A MAN,BUT IN FRONT TO GALYA ALWAYS REMAINED WITHOUT WORDS.
Part Three: Still, all the ballerinas found a way to make Odette/Odile work for them. What NO ONE could make work was that beyond embarrassing, unintentionally hilarious, pillow feather and cat fight between Siegfried and Rotbhart at the very end! Every performance I attended was a powerful and moving theatrical experience, that was very nearly done in by that “battle”, and it caused some tittering during what should have been a very serious and dramatically fraught moment.
The only true Swan Queen is, no doubt, Mezentseva. Only she is absolutely aristocratic. And aristocratism is what we, Russians, want to see on ballet stage and for which Kirov was so famous.
I'd like to point out how much more pleasant this soft peraly lightning is than the current blue crap they use in WHITE acts like those here or Giselle, La Bayadere, etc that makes me go blind.
makarova is obviously giftet ,but as all the defectors had all the pubblicity from roumored defections in full cold war time ,she was good very good but not better of many other ballerinas of her time that remained in russia as sizova or osipenko for exemple.as nureyev at least he was vastly less gifted than soloviev but the world ,due defection knew him.mezentseva was imo one of the greatest ever.
I just heard about it. They talked about how skinny she is or whatever. Not able to see the great poesy written by her arms moving or not showy extremely spiritual interpretation of her means for me the critic's inabilty in seeing movement quality and seeing thing beyond superficiality. very tragic persons they are!
millriv You are welcome. I know what you mean. You will find this funny (I hope) but someone at YT wrote me how I was supposed to get upset and answer you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good version of this ballet the music of Tschaikowsky is pretty and beautiful and the dancers are very good. The unique bad point is the scenography of third act and the orchestra very noisy.
A sublime recording!! What a loss that nobody dances like this anymore!! Every dancer here is unique, still all dance in the greatest harmony and in service of their art. No personal mannerisms or idiotic acrobatic trics that so often disturb nowadays performances, but true poetry and aristocracy!!
Martin Meng and lunyov still unsurpassed in pd3
+pediatrapaola Absolutely!! And Pankova unsurpassed too!
Martin Meng l saw live luniov at his time in 80's and his ballon and elevation were not far from soloviev's .he was underrated when went in USA but was an exceptional dancer
I absolutely agree... unfortunately...
DIVINE GALINA MEZENTSEVA!!! She epitomizes Russian Classical Ballet and is considered one of its most priceless jewels. Incomparable!!! DIAMOND shines among the stars of the Kirov Ballet.
I was fortunate to be able to see the wonderful Ms Mezetseva performing when on tour in Scotland, many years ago now. Unforgettable!
The conductor is fantastic to watch, his movements are so fluid and graceful, it makes me think he should be a dancer. :D
Believe it or not they are actually dancing to recorded music, a common occurence in the Gosteleradio films (Bayadere with Komleva, Don Quixote with Terekhova, and many others). Fedotov was the actual conductor but for whatever reason they show someone else at the start.
A great Tschaikovsky conducter: first time I`ve seen such a near choreography, dancing and music! Excellent Pankova, Aijupova and Gusev, a brilliant shut the very good Zaklinsky with Mezentzeva. And so on and so on! Thank you for uploading dear Luise!🙂👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I am English, and for me Galina Mezentseva is one of the all-time greats. I find your comment extraordinary and also quite insulting in its terminology to this wonderful ballerina. Whichever ballerina is one's personal favourite, no serious balletomane could deny the beautiul line, fluid arms like no other, legato movement and outstanding artistry that Mezentseva possessed. Her soul truly shone through her dancing and her Giselle and Odette/Odile in particular are works of genius.
I think Galina was JUST as great as Margot....did she ever dance with Rudolf?
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This is purely sublime. I have the dvd but so happy to have it on TH-cam in good quality. Thank you. I've watched it a thousand times
This orchestra is truly magnificent
Breathtaking! A complete Swan Lake performed exactly as its creators envisioned.
She had the purist technique combined with the most fragile, honest artistry. I love that her black swan was more beguiling than "showy."
I was watching Galina Mezentseva so many times I was students at conservatory in Leningrad that's time when she dance , she was absolutely awesome , totally different then others , of course so many new young ballerinas now and dancing beautiful but nobody dance like Mezentseva, she has some unique charisma
Thank You Fore Complete Swan Lake God Bless You
OMG Zaklinsky's magnificant gams.......yeowwzza, he was gorgeous and she's a true beauty
Metsenseva Galina was a wonderful ballerina 🌹🌷🌺😍
I hope, sometime Marinsky Theater will try a new version of Swan Lake
perhaps the first " Giselle " for me Mezentzeva
I AM ITALIAN ,AND THANKS GOD EVERYDAY THAT RUSSIANS GREAT SCHOOLS OF MOSCOW AND SPB PRESERVED FOR US THE PRICELESS TREASURES OF THE BALLET.
Many thanks from all my heart.
HER GISELLE IS IMO THE GREATEST EVER I SAW THE FILM WITH HER AND KOSTIA HUNDRED TIMES ,AND EVERYTIME I REMAIN WITHOUT WORDS IN FRONT HER.
mezentseva is amazing as always. and i am so glad to see pankova/ayupova/lunyov pas de trois! i haven't watched this trio since russianballetvideos' channel was closed. i can't believe i was unaware of the existence of this video until now..
kv626 pd3 imo still belongs to luniov whose perf is still unsurpassed.
My favs too. Especially Elena is my all time favourite of favourite. She and Ruzimatov dancing together in DQ is bombastic. Her Gulinara is perfect as coquettish and vulnerable. Watching her in Scotch Symphony is a mirale!
Please accept my thanks for this upload. Galina was such exeptional dancer, but she did not receive attention she deserved outside Petersburg. I believe she left very strong legacy, that appreciation of her unique contribution to classical dance will grow with time.
And by the way, what a wonderfull corps de ballet!!!!
Thank you very much for sharing your memory with us. Galina is my ultimate ballerina.
I've been wondering why she seemed to suffer in this. This real feeling of suffering made this piece far more precious but my heart is always broken when I think what was happening to her there. Now I got the glimpse and appreciate this piece further more.
Thank you very much for your great effort
I AM ITALIAN AND LOVE HER .SHE WAS THE GREATEST KIROV DANCER EVER HER SWAN AND GISELLE ARE TO BE TESAURIZED,USUALLY I APPRECIATED YOUR COMMENTS BUT THIS ONE....
she was fantastic her style here and in giselle has not comparation.
IS TRUE ,I SAW MANY GOOD DANCERS ,ALSO NOT RUSSIAN ,BUT THE GREATEST DANCERS AND ALL MY FAVOURITES ARE RUSSIANS AND AMONG THE BALLERINAS GALYA IS A DREAM DANCER.AMONG THE MEN ALL THE YOU TUBERS KNOW WHO IS MY FAVOURITE ,SO I DON'T BE BORING TELLING AGAIN.
He must have been hitting the bottle! Galya was an extraordinary ballerina - one of the greats!
Irresistibly charming first girl is Elena Pankova. Elegant second girl is Zhanna Ayupova. The guy with decent ballon is probably Alexander Lunyov.
And your screenquality is far better than my worn out vhs lost in somewhere. So thank you very much!
Beautiful production and Zaklinsky is such a handsome Prince Siegfried..
and lunev still unsurpassed in pd3 imho
she was superb
A belated thank-you for posting this. I have the VHS tape, but I won't watch it at home until the VHS- to- DVD transfer is completed.
Yes - definitely Lunyov! Can't mistake! Love so much this whole performance!
Part One: My apologies to everyone for my less-than-flattering comments about Mezentseva. I know how it is to feel personally affronted when another presents an opinion decidedly different to one’s own. I had the great good fortune to see the Kirov in Los Angeles CA in 1986. The company received a rapturous ovation, at every performance, not only because of the quality of their dancing, but because their visit was a rare and very precious thing.
Wonderful!
Возможно, это лучшая Одетта- Одиллия в мире, а может, без " возможно"..
Майя Михайловна не хуже,да и Евтеева хороша.
Я тоже считаю ее уникальной балериной, недооцененной, так мало видео сохранилось с ее участием! В то время, когда она создавала шедевры на сцене, внимание было привлечено в другим балерина. И вот через десятилетия выясняется, во всяком случае,для меня до ее планки мастерства истинного балета мало кто может дотянуться, даже с сегодняшним сверхтехничным балетом. Она обворожительна в Па-де-Катр.
Brava Galina Mezentseva, artista di qualità e molto espressiva.
SHE IS A BALLET TREASURE ,REALLY CAN'T UNDRESTAND
love it and love the cotums and i want to join the kirov ballet from graham
There is no doubt they are both great dancers.... Technically there were some "petites defaillances" for her in Odile.... But it was a great performance anyway.... Russians have a long tradition of excellent school and I love them very much.... Bravo!
Galina is Queen.
Stephanie Sticks is THE queen
@@pediatrapaolayou live in a small town don’t you?
@@weiliu3623 not so small why'
I would like to add some words about that record session. It lasted 5 days. In the Soviet Union there was practice to film ballets as follows: each scene was recorded separately = one day - one scene with a half-leg rehearsal before. Only after that they recoreded the whole ballet. At the last recording session of the whole ballet ( the famous white nights period ) there were serious problems with lighting.
It’s not about inferiority, it’s about differing tastes. I imagine ballet audiences in the former USSR and present day Russia to be among the most knowledgeable in the world, especially about Soviet-Russian-Vaganova-style ballet. The things they may favour, others might find peculiar, such as the erratic tempos, the inflexible pointework, the weakness in allegro. On the other hand, epaulement-starved American audiences LOVE the way Russian dancers use their whole upper body, arms and head.
today l whatched again whole it .may be is the onehundred time l do ,and still at every galya entrance l gasp as the first time .this couple is priceless in this.
Part Two: I attended almost all the performances and to this day, I remember the unparalleled living, breathing beauty of the corps de ballet in the white acts, the Mazurka and Spanish dances in the Ballroom scene. I remember Chenchikova's warm and sisterly Odette, Lyubov Kunakova's steely femininity and Altynai Asylmuratova's Hollywood star power. Mezensteva was the opening night Odette, and my least favourite. I just found her bewildering.
Believe it or not they are actually dancing to recorded music, a commn occurence in the Gosteleradio films, with live orchestra footage weaved in to create the impression of a 100% live performance. There was likely no audience either (other films with recorded music are Bayadere with Komleva, Don Quixote with Terekhova, Paquita with Komleva, and many others). I believe Viktor Fedotov was the actual conductor in the recording but for whatever reason they show someone else at the start.
Dude, is this the same soundtrack from Lada Sartakova Swan Lake?
Still, this was amazing! 😍😍😍❤❤❤
DVD Giselle by Mezentzeva forever
Haha, You are the expert of whole hot guys! I'm just a fan of whole crazily intense guys with weird, cool vibes.:-)
l have this lake since long time ,but everytime l watch first galya entrance l gasp as was the first time.
Of course Galya was far from her best. I believe this was shot not lon after her terrible tendon rapture. She struggled lot on her steps and some of them became stiff. Still you can see most glorious arms and lines Vaganova style only can offer.Her suffering was real and she was introvert and looked like lock herself in her sorrow. This is a very unique and convinsing portrayal of Odette from another tormented soul like Tchaikovsky.
Part One: This is my point exactly, she was a hit in Leningrad and really, only in Leningrad. Oleg Vinogradov promoted her heavily during the Kirov’s1980s overseas tours but audiences in the West much preferred Terekhova and Chenchikova and most especially the very junior but extremely beautiful and charismatic Altynai Asylmuratova. Critics would write rather unkindly about the “dreaded Mezentseva” and her toes that “groped the floor”, rather than skimmed it.
She wasn`t really on her best days when dancing this ballet. Her left foot was visiblly sorrowed. She coudn`t even have the speed to execute the 32 fouettees. But, to compensate, her arms were so beautifull has always, a dream came true.
No flattery intended, at all. I reflect the general consensus among American audiences that our dancers are “over-trained” in the legs and woefully under-trained in the use of the upper body. That’s why to us, the Maryinsky corps is a revelation in just about everything they dance. On the other hand, it has taken over a decade for Vaganova-trained principal dancers to be brought up to speed, literally, in Balanchine’s fleet and speedy footwork. Speed and precision are still works in progress.
Part Two: Even taking into account regional tastes and cultural aesthetics, Galina Mezentseva was one of those ballerinas who you either “got”, or didn’t. I was one of those that DIDN’T get her, and consequently, never warmed to her. There’s just no accounting for balletomanes’ tastes. For example, I revere Natalia Makarova and I love almost everything she dances. Yet I have a very good balletomane friend who obsesses constantly about ballet but can’t stand watching Makarova! Go figure.
l appreciate all the dancers you told and chenchikova is doing a great job here in italy with la scala corps ,but comparation with galya is not possible ,her artystry is too superior.
Sshhhhh! Lobukhin and Stepin must never know there has been Another! :-)
l am not a dancer so may be l really do not realize all the weakness but she simply gives to me more emotions than every other dancer in these roles ,l also heard that she had some bad injury from which never fully recovered and due this matter gave her best before the filming of this and giselle.
Now I shout it from the highest hills .... even told the golden daffodils ...
I can't agree with you completely either in here. Some principals lack speed and precision, that's true. But there are great speed technicians are there. For example, Victoria Tereshkina or Valeria Martynyuk were really great in BI. In fact, it's Tereshkina's TPDD that made me re-aware how Balanchine is beautiful. For me, Balanchine works woke up just with Mariinsky ballerinas. Without crazy foot speed Ekaterina Kondaurova and Osmolkina redifined beauty of Serenade, to name a few.
she was always a great artist and his technique is refined and clean as I have rarely seen, but there was no evil in his face, and Odile is in principle an evil creature
I thought my ears were burning! And I just say what everyone else thinks! :-)
Why only Leningrad? And Moscow ? And other cities and republics of the Soviet Union? Do not you know? I must tell you that her Giselle was considered by most prominent soviet ballet critics to be one of the greatest achievments of the Soviet ballet of the second half of the 20th century. Now it is clear - it is one of the greatest achievements in the world ballet history. And it is not Vinogradov but public opinion saw in Galina a genius. Please, be more correct.
Great. I think that during the whole 20th century Mariinsky was a gold standart of ballet company. But these days i prefer POB.
she is devine!
THIS ITALIAN SURELY ,GALYA IS DIVINE
i love svetlana zakharova
Because last time MT came to Brazil there were many negative critics and around more talented dancers.
Year of performance?
The beginning of the white scene was suspended for more than an hour and a half . The curtain was up and right on the stage we could see Galina
rehearsing. She seemed to be a little nervous. At least I thought she was. Noone knew when they would resume.It was really a tiring wating. One can easily imagine the psycologycal pressure Mezentseva had at those moments.
Engraçado você ter essa opinião Daniel! Em geral as pessoas, incluindo a mim, preferem a Mezentseva como Odette. Se você ler os comentários aqui vai descobrir que esse vídeo foi gravado pouco depois do retorno dela à atividade. E que o dia em que filmaram os atos brancos foi longo e doloroso pra ela. Sempre bom ver brasileiros tendo uma opinião e discutindo aqui. Tô cansada de ver os mesmos "linda, arrasou". :D
alexander lunyov's ballon is umbelivle great pd3
Who is the dancer in 2:00:33 pls
me too at that time had to read bad receptions of american critics about galya but infact these critics in my opinion didn't shine for their good taste.not appreciating mezentseva is a crime against the ballet .
pearl has a passion for kostya
Это была вторая Уланова
Anyone knows who the two swans are?
I recognize Natalia Pavlova. Credits say the other dancer is Galina Rychagova
COMPLETALY AGREE HER ARTISTRY CAN'T BE IN DISCUSSION NOT AMONG SERIOUS BALLET LOVERS.ALSO LOPATKINA CONSIDERS GALYA HER MAIN INSPIRATION.AS ALL KNOWS I AM MORE INTERESTED IN MALEDANCING ,MAY BE BECAUSE I AM A MAN,BUT IN FRONT TO GALYA ALWAYS REMAINED WITHOUT WORDS.
Part Three: Still, all the ballerinas found a way to make Odette/Odile work for them. What NO ONE could make work was that beyond embarrassing, unintentionally hilarious, pillow feather and cat fight between Siegfried and Rotbhart at the very end! Every performance I attended was a powerful and moving theatrical experience, that was very nearly done in by that “battle”, and it caused some tittering during what should have been a very serious and dramatically fraught moment.
The only true Swan Queen is, no doubt, Mezentseva. Only she is absolutely aristocratic. And aristocratism is what we, Russians, want to see on ballet stage and for which Kirov was so famous.
Mezentseva has authority, presence and is overwhelming regarding skills, but it´s true that Russian ballerinas from the past look something matronly.
matronsky mezentseva ? she weights 2 kg wet .lunev is amazing in pd3 his ballon and jump reminds soloviev's
And the dancer in 2:02:59??
Here's Japanese who admire her ultimately.
I'd like to point out how much more pleasant this soft peraly lightning is than the current blue crap they use in WHITE acts like those here or Giselle, La Bayadere, etc that makes me go blind.
luniov in pd3 is phenomenal due his ballon he is unsurpassed imo here
상트페테르부르크의 영혼 메젠트세바!
I would like to know why people in Russia don´t react. Are they most tourists in audience or they pay people to shout Bravos? Because
I AM SURPRISED DUE AVESREGGIANA'S OPINION ABOUT GALYA ,WHAT DO YOU THINK?
alexander lunyov in pd3 is out from the world
WHY CRITICS WERE NEGATIVE?
makarova is obviously giftet ,but as all the defectors had all the pubblicity from roumored defections in full cold war time ,she was good very good but not better of many other ballerinas of her time that remained in russia as sizova or osipenko for exemple.as nureyev at least he was vastly less gifted than soloviev but the world ,due defection knew him.mezentseva was imo one of the greatest ever.
I just heard about it. They talked about how skinny she is or whatever. Not able to see the great poesy written by her arms moving or not showy extremely spiritual interpretation of her means for me the critic's inabilty in seeing movement quality and seeing thing beyond superficiality. very tragic persons they are!
It wasn't anywhere on YT. PLEASE use proper English
Thank you for your correction. English is not my mother language.
Thank YOU for being so polite! (Unlike most of the others on YT) And thank you for posting. I have always enjoyed Mezentseva.
millriv You are welcome. I know what you mean. You will find this funny (I hope) but someone at YT wrote me how I was supposed to get upset and answer you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha, she has hawk eyes for hot male dancers.
amazing odile, but odette not so much.
KOSTYA IS SECRET LOVE (NOT SO SECRET) OF PEARL
due sponsorship? really?..
I will help him.
off course l hardly doubt that some mediocre dancers that in this period got main roles in main balletts had just due their very few talent .
Русские любители искусства есть?
Good version of this ballet the music of Tschaikowsky is pretty and beautiful and the dancers are very good. The unique bad point is the scenography of third act and the orchestra very noisy.
lunyov had great ballon in opinion of russianballetvideo not far from soloviev