Nouvelles du Ballet de l'Opéra de Vienne

[Gabriele Steidler]

Bogdan Roscic, currently President of Sony Music Classical, will become new General Manager of the Vienna State Opera from 2020.
http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2016/12/21/le-francais-dominique-meyer-ne-dirigera-plus-l-opera-de-vienne_1536696

[haydn]

Un poste de blog très critique dans Le Monde au sujet de l'éviction de Dominique Meyer au profit de Bogdan Roscic :

http://wanderer.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/12/22/sur-le-non-renouvellement-de-dominique-meyer-a-vienne/

En tout cas, les possibles conflits d'intérêts ne manqueront pas d'apparaître lorsque le futur ex-pdg de Sony Classical devra négocier les contrats pour les enregistrements entre la Wiener Staatsoper et les maisons de disque. On va à marche forcée vers un système à l'américaine, où les grandes institutions musicales (orchestres, opéras) sont carrément tenues par les maisons de disque ou les agences artistiques, et où un chef ne pourra jamais diriger telle ou telle formation s'il n'est pas encarté chez le bon imprésario...

Cela dit, en 2018, il y a des élections législatives en Autriche, et il n'est pas sûr que l'actuel ministre de la Culture, Thomas Drozda, un "socialiste", conserve son poste. Et comme c'est lui qui a imposé le choix de Bogdan Roscic, rien ne dit que cette nomination ne soit pas remise en cause...

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[Gabriele Steidler]

Here's a new trailer of Raymonda with the first cast and some pictures of the performance with the second cast.

[Gabriele Steidler]

The Staatsoper has published a backstage documentary of roughly 20 minutes about Nureyev's Raymonda. It is mostly in German but there are also some interviews in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wuZzPheLs

[Brienne]

Gabriele, I saw the live stream of Raymonda and quite enjoyed it. Although the general standard of dancing was good there was certainly more energy and engagement from the Viennese dancers than those of l'ONP I saw at performances of Raymonda at Garnier in 2008, with the honourable exception of Dorothee Gilbert. But I was shocked at the unfortunate tutu worn by Ms Konovalova in acts I and II. It seemed to be very ill-fitting, poorly constructed and detracted from the performance.

[sophia]

Je ne savais pas que le ballet était diffusé en streaming. On peut le retrouver quelque part? C'est malheureusement payant d'ordinaire.
Enfin, si le Ballet de Vienne sort le DVD que l'ONP n'a jamais sorti (à mon avis à juste titre - cette série de représentations, "à l'honorable exception de Dorothée Gilbert", ne fut pas anthologique, pour dire le moins), je m'en réjouirais.

[Brienne]

Justement, le livestream était payant! 15 euros. Plus ou moins comme dans les cinémas. Et je suis désolé, je ne sais pas si on peut le trouver ailleurs. DVD? Peut-etre. Je vous ai envoyé un mp.

[Gabriele Steidler]

I'm afraid the live stream of Raymonda is no longer available. However, I consider it probable that there will be a DVD next season when Liudmila Konovalova has fully recovered from her injury.

[CatherineS]

[Gabriele Steidler]

[Gabriele Steidler]

For those who have missed the New Year's Concert but would like to watch it, here's the second part of the concert conducted by Gustavo Dudamel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2qJ_TJ-wU
Renato Zanella's choreography can be watched from 11:40. The dancers are Liudmila Konovalova+Robert Gabdullin, Ketevan Papava+Eno Peci, Franziska Wallner-Holinek+Mihail Sosnovschi, Alice Firenze+Davide Dato and Nina Poláková+Denys Cherevychko. The costumes are by Christof Cremer.
There is also a live performance of students of the Ballet Academy at 53:10.

On January 1st 2018, Riccardo Muti will be conducting the New Year's Concert for the fifth time. This was announced yesterday by the Vienna Philharmonic.

[Gabriele Steidler]

Cast of the Staatsballett's tour with Le Corsaire at the Teatro Real in Madrid from January 11 to 14:

Conrad:
Vadim Muntagirov [11]
Robert Gabdullin [12, 14 (17:00 h)]
Denys Cherevychko [13, 14 (21:30 h)]

Médora:
Liudmila Konovalova [11]
Maria Yakovleva [12, 14 (17:00 h)]
Nina Poláková [13, 14 (21:30 h)]

Gulnare:
Natascha Mair [11, 13, 14 (21:30 h)]
Nina Tonoli [12, 14 (17:00 h)]

Lanquedem:
Mihail Sosnovschi [11, 13, 14 (21:30 h)]
Francesco Costa [12, 14 (17:00 h)]

Birbanto:
Davide Dato [11, 13, 14 (21:30 h)]
Masayu Kimoto [12, 14 (17:00 h)]

Zulméa:
Alice Firenze [11, 13, 14 (21:30 h)]
Ioanna Avraam [12, 14 (17:00 h)]

Seyd Pascha:
Andrey Kaydanovskiy [11, 13, 14 (21:30 h)]
Mihail Sosnovschi [12, 14 (17:00 h)]

Les Odalisques:
Nikisha Fogo, Nina Tonoli, Anita Manolova [11]
Nikisha Fogo, Anita Manolova, Natascha Mair [12, 14 (17:00 h)]
Eszter Ledán, Nina Tonoli, Nikisha Fogo [13, 14 (21:00 h)]

[Gabriele Steidler]

[Gabriele Steidler]

At yesterday's press conference of the Opera Ball 2017, which will take place on February 23, it was anounced that this year the ballet of the opening ceremony will be choreographed by Lukas Gaudernak, a former member of the company and now répétiteur and production manager of the Staatsballett. Amongst others, the dancers of the waltz Künstlerleben by Johann Strauss will include the Principals Nina Poláková, Maria Yakovleva, Denys Chervychko, Davide Dato and Roman Lazik as well as students of the Ballet Academy. Dominique Meyer emphasised particularly that it was important to him not to present "cute" little children but the next generation of the Staatsballett.

KÜNSTLERLEBEN, Walzer, op. 316 von Johann Strauß (Sohn) Choreographie: Lukas Gaudernak | Wiener Staatsballett Maria Yakovleva – Denys Cherevychko, Nina Poláková – Roman Lazik; Natascha Mair – Mihail Sosnovschi, Nina Tonoli – Eno Peci, Ioanna Avraam – Davide Dato, Alice Firenze – Masayu Kimoto; Iliana Chivarova – Leonardo Basílio, Eszter Ledán – Dumitru Taran, Anita Manolova – Jaimy van Overeem, Anna Shepelyeva – Attila Bakó, Laura Nistor – Alexandru Tcacenco, Adele Fiocchi – Kamil Pavelka Studierende der Ballettakademie der Wiener Staatsoper

[Gabriele Steidler]

As Mizuko has mentioned in Nouvelles du Japon, Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin will be dancing Nureyev's Swan Lake at the Staatsoper this spring.