Le Corsaire by Manuel Legris after Petipa, music by Adam
Robert Gabdullin (Conrad), Maria Yakovleva (Médora), Liudmila Konovalova (Gulnare), Kirill Kourlaev (Lanquedem) — Wiener Staatsballett
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Cast
Manuel Legris — Choreographer
Robert Gabdullin — Conrad
Maria Yakovleva — Médora
Liudmila Konovalova — Gulnare
Kirill Kourlaev — Lanquedem
Davide Dato — Birbanto
Alice Firenze — Zulméa
Mihail Sosnovschi — Seyd Pascha
Natascha Mair — Odalisque
Nina Tonoli — Odalisque
Prisca Zeisel — Odalisque
Wiener Staatsballett
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Valery Ovsyanikov — Conductor
Program notes
Since its 1856 premiere at the Paris Opera, Le Corsaire has been regarded as one of the most impressive narrative ballets of the 19th century. The work became particularly popular in the versions by Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa and, of course, through the spectacular “Le Corsaire pas de deux,” made world-famous by Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
For this first performance of the ballet in full at the storied Wiener Staatsoper in 2016, Wiener Staatsballett director Manuel Legris—after a 23-year tenure as an étoile dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet!—choreographed a new version based largely on the rich French and Russian performance traditions. Action, music, choreography, scenery and costumes are carefully combined into a new overall picture which focuses on the high points of the colorful events surrounding the leading couple of Conrad and Medora, sublimely danced by Robert Gabdullin and Maria Yakovleva!
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