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5.0 out of 5 stars
Would love to see this come out on DVD,
By Dudley Ristow "books4me" (Cape Town South Africa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shostakovich's The Golden Age (The Bolshoi Ballet) (The World of Dance) (VHS Tape)
This ballet is unlikely to be ever staged again in the world since Shostakovich's "The Golden Age" glorifies communism, depicting the Church, the Tsar and the Jew banker as being the baddies with the hero and heroine (Boris and Rita) of the piece eventually overcoming the gangsters of capitalism, thereby restoring society to its communistic "order". Every principal dancer - Natalya Bessmertnova as Rita, Irek Mukhamedov as Boris, Gediminas Taranda as Yashka, the nightclub owner and gangster, Tatyana Golikova as his "moll" Lyuska, and Mikhail Tsivin as the Master of Ceremonies - graces and explodes on the stage like bolts of lightning. Several pas de deuxs from the ballet are particularly memorable although the one, Tea for Two, in the night club with Yashka and Rita is one of those rare never-forgotten gasping moments of dance. This is a truly magnificent piece of ballet : it is both sad and a shame that it is now lost to the ballet repertoire
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Shostakovich's The Golden Age (The Bolshoi Ballet) (The World of Dance) by Erek Moukhamedov (VHS Tape)
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