"La Sylphide" - Bolshoi Ballet - Tower Theater - Pathe Cinema

Sally arranged that we should see this ballet. Apparently Pathe Cinema distributes movies of very recent ballet performances, in the manner that live opera is sometimes shown in local cinemas. The Tower Theatre showed "La Sylphide" twice (on Sunday afternoon, and Tuesday night). The number of showings is small, and the entrance price considerably-higher than for most movies, but for the discerning viewer, it's the next-best thing to being in Moscow to watch the performance itself. Sally was surprised that the Tuesday audience wasn't the Bunhead crowd, but rather, quite a bit older (probably because of ticket price).

I was a little confused, and worried I might have the information wrong, but apparently Ekaterina Krysanova played the lead role:

LA SYLPHIDE is one of the world's oldest surviving romantic ballets, dating back to August Bournonville's 1836 version based on an adaptation of an 1832 French ballet of the same name. The version presented today has been adapted by choreographer Johan Kobborg and gleams anew at the Bolshoi Ballet. Starring Ekaterina Krysanova, Vyacheslav Lopatin, Anna Rebetskaya and Denis Savin, the human realm of a small Scottish village becomes transformed by the appearance of beautiful, winged spirits.

Here is a delightful video featuring Ekaterina Krysanova. Loved her musicality!

Must continue seeing these presentations!

It's amusing how the Romantic ballet choreographers loved using Scotland as the world's most exotic place. Or Spain. Or both, if they could be wedged into a coherent plot.

Here's another video, in Don Quixote: