An absolute masterpiece with wonderful music!!! Baryshnikov is fantastic, as he usually is🙏
@emitch9213 Жыл бұрын
Superb! Thank you! LOVED seeing Ferri, Browne, and Baryshnikov...in La Sonombula. Now I am going to go listen to Montserrat Caballe sing Bellini's opera La Sonumbula...🌹
@pabloperdomo5174Ай бұрын
She never sang that role. She just recorded the Last Act aria and cabaletta. Best option? Maria Callas according to dozens of critics. Enjoy, don't' miss that opportunity
@user-ew5gk9tg3r3 жыл бұрын
It is wonderful. I love Misha. Terrific dancer and artist!!!
@davidholmes463510 жыл бұрын
That was great. One of the Balanchine works I had never seen. Baryshnikov in his prime was a sublime dancer. Watch him in The Prodigal Son!
@Feliandyx169 жыл бұрын
+David Holmes He is the best Prodigal son ¡¡¡
@MarySanchez-qk3hp4 жыл бұрын
I've never seen it before, either. And thanks for suggesting Prodigal Son, that will be new to me, too! I should have guessed it's Balanchine... some of the steps and positions surprised me and made me smile. Should've suspected it was him!
@terryblack28443 жыл бұрын
I’m a huge Prodigal Son fan
@donevon57352 жыл бұрын
Mary Sanchez Yes, as soon as I saw the long line of dancers take hands by reaching over, under and around each other, and then miraculously unwind without releasing hands ........ I smiled. Yep, that's Balanchine. Very unique ballet. Haunting. So different, I think, in style, costume, setting. Just great! All the soloists were wonderful (Julie Kent), and Ferri was in incredible. Thank you so much for posting this gem ❤️👏❤️👏
@michaelbrodsky122110 жыл бұрын
What a great ballet--it's a miracle that you posted it--infinite thanks.
@natanaelgorrin94734 жыл бұрын
Maravilloso, hermoso, brillante.
@theoldar7 жыл бұрын
I saw this choreography yesterday at the New York City Ballet. It is magical.
@leslieflem24486 жыл бұрын
This shows that Balanchine's genius had so many different sides.
@realbabyraven81353 жыл бұрын
i had to rewatch the part where La Sonnambula walks in because i realized she does the WHOLE THING EN POINTE! HOLY SHIT! so beautiful. ;_; And that was a real candle the whole time eh? Wow. This was great.
@anaamaro703 жыл бұрын
and the end she must have had her feet on blood.
@lucybirot56239 ай бұрын
How wonderful! Thank you for posting this masterpiecem and with the incomparably sublime Baryshnikov and the lovely Leslie Brown!♥
@kittyslinxalott78156 жыл бұрын
Thank You for posting. I used to have this on video and loved it. Still love it.
@carinamoses2704 Жыл бұрын
the way Baryshnikov slowly steps back right as the music becomes fuller and deeper, it works so well.
@carinamoses2704 Жыл бұрын
I also love how he ducks underneath her candle-holding hand.
@garotadagavea7 жыл бұрын
It is a stark piece. Am I the only one who sees an inverted Swan Lake with shades of Jeune homme et la Mort?
@pedinurse13 жыл бұрын
Allessandra Ferri and Misha , what a duo
@simaraft7373 Жыл бұрын
Johan Renval: WOW!!!
@Marta44339 Жыл бұрын
I saw him as the Golden Idol about 100 years ago. Really great!
@ZenGrammy2 жыл бұрын
Thank you 🌹🌹🌹
@CHarveyFan18 жыл бұрын
Who wouldn't fall in love with Alessandra Ferri?
@donschwellenbach54618 жыл бұрын
Alessandra is always spectacular
@theoldar7 жыл бұрын
And she is still beautiful. Just a magnificent dancer.
@natiaphilosophy86076 жыл бұрын
Don Schwellenbach yeah ballerina assoluta
@natiaphilosophy86076 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece🎇
@7CALLAS10 жыл бұрын
LOVE IT
@dennischiapello72436 жыл бұрын
Placing the Poet's body in the Sleepwalker's arms is a terrifically shocking moment. I don't think there's anything quite like it in ballet. However, I've seen productions where the effect is fudged (an effigy is secretly substituted) and consequently ruined. I understand the reason (there is doubtless a physical risk for the ballerina,) but it's unfortunate.
@Marcel_Audubon5 жыл бұрын
yes, the whole scene is so touching ... and then the moment you realize they're laying the body in the sleepwalker's arms and she carries him up the stairs is shocking ... I remember the first time I saw it with NYCB I thought about it for days afterward
@Marcel_Audubon2 жыл бұрын
@@DianaMoon11428 yes, of course, you have to be willing to go along with the illusion ... but the candlelight going up the stairs and the last time you had seen that candle was in the hand of the girl carrying the poet, makes it a pretty easy illusion to surrender to
@dennischiapello38792 жыл бұрын
@@DianaMoon11428 With the camera zooming in, you can see that Ferri has all the weight she can handle. The exit through the doorway is a sharp turn out of view as quickly as possible. Also, the ballerina ascends the staircase with a lightweight dummy. It's called stage magic!
@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын
@@DianaMoon11428 I don't think anyone thinks she's really carrying a grown man up the stairs - can't you get past that and just enjoy?? Theater requires you to surrender to it sometimes.
@katerinakucerova29376 жыл бұрын
Oh I absolutely love this. Thank you for upload. I love the gothic romance feel of this peace. I love Leslie and Misha partnering in here. I have a soft spot them, because of Turning point and it´s great to see, how their proffesional relationship and partnership has evolved and matured since then. Leslie has become absolutely wonderfull ballerina and no doubt Misha can take some credit for that, since she spent most of her career in ABT under his leadership. Misha Alessandra ppd is so cute, sweet yet disturbing. Guy finds girl, who is actually in sort of uncounsious state and turns her into his plaything and ten takes advantage of her.
@simaraft7373 Жыл бұрын
Of course the whole thing is WOW!
@1357911LVGS2 жыл бұрын
СПАСИБО!!!
@terryblack28443 жыл бұрын
I have only been watching ballet videos for a couple of months. So glad I discovered this. The entire company are brilliant. I enjoyed immensely! Who is the ballerina with the candle? Thank you for sharing. Dallas Texas
@ameliaiandolo55922 ай бұрын
FERRI
@Feliandyx1610 жыл бұрын
More videos of Misha ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
@3000_Year_Old_Man5 ай бұрын
This appears to be the episode of Dance in America that aired on PBS on February 5, 1988. Here is the LA Times review: It’s been years since the “Dance in America” series last presented either the New York City Ballet in works by George Balanchine or the Merce Cunningham ensemble in choreography by Cunningham. So why is PBS ignoring these inimitable companies tonight and bringing us an hour of second-hand Balanchine and Cunningham dancing by American Ballet Theatre (8 p.m. on Channel 24, 9 p.m. on Channels 28 and 15; Saturday at 9 p.m. on Channel 50)? The answer probably involves the availability (as dancer and host) of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was briefly a member of City Ballet and, at 40, is still the biggest name in American dance. For star-struck viewers, that may be enough. ... Set to Vittorio Rieti’s arrangements of music by Bellini, “La Sonnambula” represents Balanchine’s meditation on the darker themes of Romantic ballet. The plot (involving a poet’s choice between an earthly, worthless love and an unattainable, dangerous vision) is familiar yet strange, and the choreography rich in allusion. The uneven performance finds Leslie Browne overwrought and unmusical as the Coquette, Alessandra Ferri oddly prosaic as the enigmatic Sleepwalker and Baryshnikov superficial as the doomed Poet: He dallies and dies as an uncomprehending innocent. Johan Renvall makes a deft Harlequin.
@hyunsoolee57952 жыл бұрын
Strong lady!! She cradle carried the much larger man!
@rickeeeddleman5614 Жыл бұрын
I have never seen this!!! OMG!!!!
@korimaoist11228 жыл бұрын
Very good si mikhail and ferri.
@LinhHoang-im4cz6 жыл бұрын
Love Browne
@giuliorenzobighin8165 Жыл бұрын
MOLTO BRAVI a riportarci al clima dell'oneiria con i suoi equivoci e le sue sottese parvenze dentro un gioco bilico al tempo reale come in un sogno astante.Bighin GIULIO RENZO
@rociosubieta343711 ай бұрын
Primera vez q veo esta obra, no sabía que wxistia
@pediatrapaola522210 жыл бұрын
wow johan renvall
@Pearlaceous10 жыл бұрын
Great to see this! :-)
@DonnaMcMasterRiver3 жыл бұрын
he had such genius for comic roles! loved his “boy” in the 1983 Don Quixote as well
@jonnarobinson75412 жыл бұрын
I do not understand why is this magnificent peace choreographed by Balanchine is not danced more often?
@alexandradaniele6 ай бұрын
New York City Ballet performs it fairly regularly. In fact they just did it in their fall season 2023.
@jhlee3187 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤
@mariorodrigiuez63027 жыл бұрын
VERY SMART SI MIKHAIL AND FERRI , SA LA SONNAMBULA BALLET , FOR SUPER FISH' S DAYS.
@manfredfinch10 жыл бұрын
Browne seems so much older than Baryshnikov in this film, and yet is actually nine years older than her.
@adrianisimona9 жыл бұрын
I even didn't know there was a ballet called 'La Sonnambula'.. but the music is a mix, there are lynes also from 'Lucia di Lammermoor' which is another Bellini's Opera... yes, because 'La Sonnambula' was born as Operatic music...
@realztenisfanz70488 жыл бұрын
+Simona Adriani I don't think Bellini wrote an opera called Lucia di Lammermoor. At least the most popular opera by that name was written by Donizetti. However, there is music from the opera Norma written by Bellini added to this Sonnambula ballet.
@realztenisfanz70488 жыл бұрын
+Simona Adriani Also I Puritani written by Bellini
@adrianisimona8 жыл бұрын
Maybe is Puritani ai was thinking about ;-) I mistake! The aria whom music I heard is called 'qui la voce sua soave'
@adrianisimona8 жыл бұрын
I mistake because the two operas are very similar, them both speak about a girl who get mad after going married to another man rather the one they loved. Those are tragedias, because everyone dies at the end, while I prefear sonnambula, because it has an happy end ;-)
@realztenisfanz70488 жыл бұрын
+Simona Adriani Well that's the strange thing. In both Puritani and Sonnambula, the operas, there are happy endings, ie no one died and weddings. However, for this ballet, they made it into a tragedy and they didn't give them the names. So I guess they wanted a more tragic tone for the ballet because that would be more effective I guess.
@7CALLAS4 жыл бұрын
I love this, but where can I buy this music?
@dennischiapello72433 жыл бұрын
The score is published under the title Night Shadow, by Vittorio Rieti. I have a CD of the music, a 2-disc set called Ballet Gala, on Seraphim. Also contains music by Drigo, Helsted, and others. I don't know if it's still available or if there are other recordings. But search Night Shadow instead of Sonnambula. Good luck!
@Marcel_Audubon2 жыл бұрын
It's a combination of themes from different operas by Vincenzo Bellini
@philipkuttner79452 жыл бұрын
@@Marcel_Audubon But none from La Sonnambula!
@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын
@@philipkuttner7945 not true, 'Ah! Non Credea Mirarti' is used very effectively for the death scene
@BytomGirl Жыл бұрын
There is an opera by the same name with music of Bellini
@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын
and some of that music is used here, along with other Bellini excerpts
@BytomGirl Жыл бұрын
@@Marcel_Audubon I could tell
@sego56572 жыл бұрын
Noting the cast, guessing this must be ABT, not NYCB (where Balanchine's company was). Embarrassed to say I kept nodding off watching this. A good soporific.
@sego56572 жыл бұрын
@@Marcel_Audubon Sorry I forgot the question mark. Thank you for the info was wondering what co. it was. And yes the music is good for me if insomnied.
@philipkuttner79452 жыл бұрын
Well, the title does mean "The Sleepwalker". Perhaps Alessandra Ferri nodded off before coming onstage.
@dennischiapello3879 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it was an ABT production. When it was shown on TV, there was a conversation with Baryshnikov. He said that when he left NYCB to become artistic director at ABT, he asked Balanchine for the rights to mount La Sonnambula (among others.)
@ceceliaclarke Жыл бұрын
I would not want to try to take away any of the enjoyment expressed by viewers of this ballet, but I must say that I agree with streetcar's assessment. I have experienced this ballet as repetitive...sleepify-ing...and slow-paced. Beyond some expression of appreciation for the mid-19th century costumes, I have nothing good to say about this. The male dancers look fantastic. Swallow-tail jackets and brilliantly white tights look wonderful in a classical ballet. With this much said, five minutes of 19th century quadriles by the corps dancers was more than enough. I did not need another fifteen minutes of the exact same routine. The music was very much the same, from start to finish. For the large group ball room scene, to the part with the male lead embracing a candle-holding ghost, the music was the same. It's good that viewers enjoyed this. I'm sorry to be typing anything to try to dampen enthusiasm and appreciation. For my taste, this was slow-paced, and I did not like the very un-classical squatting, crouching movements of certain segments.
@sego5657 Жыл бұрын
@@philipkuttner7945 😂👌
@korimaoist11228 жыл бұрын
I am very sad ni jennie , for death si mikhail b, and for sleepwalker si ferri.
@Kattydoggylovely Жыл бұрын
In che anno siamo ?! Giovanissima julie kent!
@Marta44339 Жыл бұрын
Siamo in 1987, secondo la persona che l'ha messo qui.
@Kattydoggylovely Жыл бұрын
@@Marta44339 28 anni quindi wow ! Grazie ☺️
@Marta44339 Жыл бұрын
@@Kattydoggylovely Julie Kent e' nata in 1969, Baryshnikov in 1948.
@alexandradaniele6 ай бұрын
Julie Kent was still in the corps here, at 18. She was promoted to soloist in 1990 and to principal in 1993.
@hannekekoolen8243 Жыл бұрын
Nice to finally see this ballet. Some fun choreographic ideas of Balanchine to enjoy. However, I do find that the kissing and manipulating of the sleepwalker did not age well (much like the prince kissing Aurora).
@user-zw5jo4mp4b Жыл бұрын
Гениальное творение . Нельзя взгляд оторвать. ❤
@knothead359 ай бұрын
It aged perfectly
@user-ct6wu3zv3n Жыл бұрын
오후11교시
@erpollock2 жыл бұрын
This is obviously an ABT production after Misha had been with Balanchine's company and became director of ABT. So it's in the 80s. No, the candle is not a real flame. They use electricity, as the flame goes out at moments and then relights. The choreography left out a key moment where Misha lays down in front of the sleepwalker and she flitly steps over him without missing a beat. That they left out? And the NYCBallet dancers I've seen in this - Darci, Wendy Whelan, are much more the sleepwalker. I just think Alessandra Ferri is too human and a more wispy dancer is better. And Misha is held with wires in the last scene where he staggers in, stabbed and the sleepwalker carries him. She could otherwise never have lifted Misha. Oh, and the crying scene is left out, the Harlequin especially is not seen.
@dennischiapello38792 жыл бұрын
There are no wires involved in the Sleepwalker carrying the poet. His full weight is laid in her arms, and she just needs to manage the few steps through the doorway before letting him down, out of sight.
@Marcel_Audubon Жыл бұрын
Don't be a dope, of course it's a real flame, but it's a stage candle, can't go out ... and there aren't any wires happening here. She only has to carry him a few feet and doesn't lift him, he's placed into her arms. Again, don't be a dope.
@AnnabellaEdeL8 жыл бұрын
A very good choreography for the time. No longer attractive to watch. Baryshnikov, Browne and Renvall are at their best, yet Ferri is still in her early stage.
@Marcel_Audubon2 жыл бұрын
dopey analysis - no longer attractive to watch? Begone, woman!
@user-vb8lg3qy5g4 жыл бұрын
Полная реплика 1го акта Щелкунчика ... для подобной интриги несоответствующий музыкальный материал...
@Marcel_Audubon2 жыл бұрын
Bellini and Tchaikovsky sound nothing alike.
@genlyai5055 Жыл бұрын
Ferri is much, much, MUCH too corporeal and too earthy in every way. The opening bourree sequence is embarrassingly bad.