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I used to have an earlier-issued blu-ray of a Gergiev/Mariinsky Performance

Posted by Chris from Lafayette (A) on March 30, 2015 at 20:25:32

In Reply to: Tchaikovsky Nutcracker via Gergiev & Marinsky Ballet on Blu Ray posted by John C. - Aussie on March 30, 2015 at 18:32:59:

I don't think I've seen the one you have, but it's bound to be an improvement on that earlier (2008) performance, which was damaged by the introduction of Eurotrash staging elements. (You would think that if one area of the world would be immune from the sickness of Eurotrash stagings, it would be Russia - but apparently Gergiev thinks otherwise.) That earlier performance featured such "innovations" as zombie children dancing near the end of Waltz of the Snowflakes (with the Snowflakes costumed in black of course!), and Clara/Marie almost freezing to death. I jettisoned that one a couple of years ago, and I think the only blu-ray of The Nutcracker I have now is the Bolshoi performance of the Yuri Grigorovich choreography, released in 2012 - a kind of a slimmed down approach (in terms of number of dancers on stage for many of the numbers), but still far more faithful to the story than that earlier Mariinsky blu-ray. Here's that earlier Mariinsky cover, followed by the latest Bolshoi:

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