Rememberance Day 加拿大国殇日
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2006/11/12 01:11
晚上应朋友之邀到Downtown的新落成的Four Season Center for Perfomaing Arts欣赏了 加拿大国家芭蕾舞团演出的柴科夫斯基的经典三幕芭蕾舞剧《睡美人》。
最后编辑： wilson 编辑于2008/03/25 23:19
故事梗概为：美丽的Princess Aurora（奥洛拉公主）受到邪恶的妖婆Carabosse, the wicked fairy（卡拉波斯）的诅咒，在十六岁时被纺锭刺伤手指而死。但由于代表善良与智慧的精灵Lilac Fariry（里拉）用魔杖赶走了妖婆，使得奥洛拉公主幸免一死，而以沉睡一百年来代替了死亡。一百年之后，恰逢Pince Florimund（白马王子狄吉列）经过这一城堡，他依照里拉的指示，用热吻唤醒了奥洛拉公主。故事的结尾是王子与公主举行了盛大的婚礼。本剧在芭蕾舞剧历史上占有十分重要的地位，它将传统的古典舞剧引向了高峰。
本剧中最著名的两个片段：圆舞曲，为《睡美人》组曲中的第五曲。这一片段选自第一幕中，远道而来的四位王子手持鲜花向奥洛拉公主求婚时的场面。旋律由乐队的弦乐部分奏出，充满了轻松活泼、抒情优美的圆舞曲特色。慢板，为组曲中的第二曲。 第一幕中， 公主在十六岁生日宴会上深情地接过求婚者赠送的玫瑰，因此这一段也被称为《玫瑰花的慢板舞曲》。柔婉抒情的主旋律生动地表现出公主优雅大方、彬彬有礼的舞姿。
看到演员表上女主角Princess Aurora扮演者之一的Xiao Nan Yu是大连来的国家芭蕾舞团的首席舞蹈员，而且多位首席舞蹈员是从中国来的，颇值得高兴。
Four Season Center for Perfomaing Arts是五层环形剧场，建筑及设计风格堪称一流。
最后编辑： wilson 编辑于2008/03/25 23:19
The National Ballet of Canada opens its first season in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto Thursday with a tried and true favourite, The Sleeping Beauty.
Greta Hodgkinson and Ryan Boorne in The Sleeping Beauty. Hodkinson will dance Aurora on opening night.
(Cylla von Tiedemann/National Ballet of Canada)
The ballet, choreographed for the National Ballet in 1972 by Rudolph Nureyev, has been given a $700,000 makeover for its debut in the company's new home.
Artistic director Karen Kain has restaged the ballet and much has been invested to restore the original splendour of the costumes, wigs and scenery originally designed by Nicholas Georgiadis.
It's hoped the magic of this fairy-tale ballet will seduce patrons into a new, more extensive season in a new building.
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The Four Seasons Centre has earned rave reviews as an opera house, with the Canadian Opera Company's well-regarded Ring Cycle in September.
The sight lines are expected to be good for the ballet, with many seats much closer to the dancers than was the case in the Hummingbird Centre.
Principal dancers Greta Hodgkinson and Guillaume Côté will dance the lead roles of Aurora and Florimund on opening night.
Along with a new home comes some fresh faces, with several dancers making their debuts in The Sleeping Beauty.
Victoria Bertram and Lise-Marie Jourdain in The Sleeping Beauty. The production has had a $700,000 upgrade to restore the beauty of the sets and costumes.
(Cylla von Tiedemann/National Ballet of Canada)
Principal dancer Zdenek Konvalina will make his debut with the company dancing Florimund on Nov. 12, and both principal dancer Heather Ogden and first soloist Stacey Shiori Minagawa dance Aurora for the first time later in the run.
Aleksandar Antonijevic and Nehemiah Kish also will dance Florimund, and Sonia Rodriguez and Xiao Nan Yu will take the role of Aurora.
There will be a new principal conductor in the pit opening night, the highly regarded David Briskin, starting his first season as music director.
Playing for the ballet requires some unique talents, Briskin said in an interview with CBC Radio.
\"You learn how to look at a dancer and to know what's working and what's not working,\" he said.
\"And one of the many things you provide here is a level of comfort so they can dance their best …. You know, you can't always be completely autocratic in saying I want it this way or the composer wants it this way. There's always a bit of accommodation, so it attracts a certain type of person to ballet but it can be very, very rewarding because of the repertoire.\"
American-born Briskin has had an extensive conducting career with modern dance companies and spent seven years with the American Ballet Theater. He has been a guest conductor with the National Ballet and continues to guest conduct with the New York City Ballet.
Briskin had praise for the clarity of sound in the Four Seasons Centre and said he is looking forward to opening night.
\"I think the orchestra is ready, the dancers are ready, the stage is ready and now it's time to introduce this new era of the National Ballet of Canada to the public here, and I think it's going to be a very exciting time,\" he said.
The Sleeping Beauty plays in Toronto Nov. 9 - 19.