My wife and I, who, had never seen a full-length ballet before, although she had taken lessons as a child, watched this together and it is fair to say we were enraptured. Living in the heart of the Brazilian outback, youtube is the only chance we ever have to see such things. It is also a privilege to see a performance that is more or less as it would have been done 100 years ago when this was first produced. What an amazing thing! We are now going to look for Petrushka and (God help us) The Rite of Spring. Still, l if it comes up to this standard...
Find Petrushka with Andris Liepa, there is a wonderful Russian film .. he was amazing dancer before he retired. So reminiscent of heroes Russian Fairy Tale boxes and in books.
Andris was also gorgeous in Firebird, it was like looking at the illustrations in a fairy tale book. I have it on one DVD with Petrushka and Scherezade
Petrushka is one of my favourites. Also, if you have time, try The Green Table done by the Joffrey Ballet. It's on youtube in approx 7 installments. Very worth the trouble of watching in 7 segments! :)
This is, by far, the best Firebird I have ever seen. Usually, the opening Firebird-Prince pas is the major dancing, and the rest is pantomime. This was much more fully realized, and gave the great score its due. I loved Vishneva, and I thought the Prince and Princess were very good too. A great production!
Synopsis: One day, the Tsar's son, Ivan Tsarevich, goes hunting and manages to capture a bird with wings like fire, who is obviously the Firebird the name is mentioning. The Firebird begs for her release, and offers Ivan one of her magic feathers. Ivan agrees and is told to wave that feather whenever he is in trouble. Ivan releases the Firebird and keeps hunting. He comes across 12 maidens and a princess that are all playing a game with golden apples from a tree. Ivan joins their game and learns that they are captives of an evil king named Kastchei, whose soul is protected inside of an egg in a casket. If the egg is destroyed, he dies. The maidens and the princess leave, and warn Ivan not to follow. But he does, and enters Kastchei's palace. He sets off an alarm, and is captured. Kastchei tries to turn him to stone. Ivan waves the feather the Firebird gave him and the Firebird sends Kastchei and all of his "subjects" in to a mad dance. Eventually, they crash and the Firebird shows Ivan where the casket with Kastchei's soul is. Ivan breaks the egg, killing Kastchei. Although Stravinsky didn't mention this in the original score, a lot of productions end with Ivan marrying the princess. So there you go.
@Ian Welsman I want to give you tip. You can use the word the 'aforementioned' for the 'the name is mentioning'. You can say 'the name aforementioned' :D
8:49 Ivan captures the Firebird. 14:54 The Firebird gives Ivan the magic feather for help in time of trouble. 20:42 Ivan encounters the 12 maidens and the princess, King Kastchei's captives. 33:05 Ivan summons the Firebird to redeem her promise. 43:16 Ivan breaks the soul egg, killing evil king Kastchei thereby freeing the captive maidens and princess. 47:21 Ivan marries the princess.
bravo bravissimo............Tres bien fait. Merci Monsieur Stravinsky. J'aime bein l'histoire L'Oiseau de Feu. Zhar Ptitsa en Russe. C'est tres spirituael and ca nous aide de devenir Le varie Soi que nous sommes.
Diana embodies music and dance all by herself. Her vivacious, classy, unassuming and charming personality matches the plot and theme of the masterpiece by Stravinsky, who is embodiment of music himself. Agility, flexibility, artistic fluidity, musicality, subtleness and beauty swept me off my feet. Diana must have nee sent from above like her great predecessor and role model- Yulia Mikhalina.... though both utterly different personalities. Stravinsky the greatest revolutionary and visionary composer of the XXth century produced an imaginary, mystical opus... the most breath-takingly ballet of the last century. Thank for posting the marvelous rendition....
Hello, I have a question and I hope someone can answer it for me! I'm working on a project about ballet trough the ages for school and I have to find a version of The Firebird that is very close to the original one. I don't know of this one is because I have never seen this ballet before. If you know please say so and if you know another one that is more suitable for my project please comment. Thank you!
The best way to watch the original Nijinsky choreography to Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), especially for dancers who are accustomed to Swan Lake type beautiful ballet, is to think of it as 2/3 aerobics and 1/3 ballet. The Nijinsky choreography is absolutely stunning and mirrors perfectly the music which is about Pagan rituals in ancient Russia. After watching the Joffrey performance (or perhaps even before) one should definitely watch Riot at the Rite which gives great background including the commotion which took place at the first performance of the ballet on May 29, 1913.
Fabulous pas de Deux with intense fluidity sensual passion truly a masterpiece preserved with reverence to detail for 'Fokine's' genius to 'Stravinsky's beautiful score. Wonderful dancers here!!!
It‘s so electrifying. Wonderful dance, costumes, stage.. I believe this is also a lot of fun for the dancers to be part of the production. Despite all the hard work. I guess many of them are still students from Vaganova academy
This is a more modern , much longer and wonderful version of the Firebird, wonderfully done , entrancing in every way, though I love parts of the original version too.
Although I much prefer the Royal Ballets Goncharova designs- the dancing in this is far superior to the Benjamin -Cope version also the acting is of a much more commited and higher standard You can really believe in the characters !!1
One thing I don't like, is that if Firebird could do all she did at the end, then why didn't she just overpower the prince in the beginning?... If I could rewrite it, I'd have Firebird humble the prince, instead of begging HIM to spare HER, and only give him the feather, as she stumbles upon him, broken, and alone, after being rejected by the girl.
I don't think it's a mistake because fairy tale is a genre that is unrealistic in principle. There must be logic in it but not so strict. The main thing is fantasy, beauty, archetypes, emotions, poetry... And this is a superb fairy tale in its scenic and musical realization.
I'd guess there was something in the original stories this ballet is based on to explain that a little. But nonetheless I think it's more interesting this way. It's kind of a funny paper-rock-scissory dynamic. Prince>mythical creature>sorcerer>prince.
I’ve heard of Stravinsky’s firebird but I’ve never watched it before this. Yet I knew for sure that it was firebird the moment she walked in at 7:24 ! And it wasn’t even stated in the title! (Not in English anyways)
Comme je l'ai déjà dit,je préfère de très loin ces ballets aux pauvres films qui ne montrent que l'éternel EGO de nous autres pauvres humains BRAVISSIMO!!!!!!
Диана Вишнева прекрасная балерина, балет получился красивый, магический. Музыка особенно магическая, опасная для эмоционального зрителя. Спасибо, baletart!
Yes Diana Vishneva is beautiful. Stravinsky composed many other ballets but not sepcialy for her. The most famous is "The Rite of Spring" but there is also "Petrouchka" or less known "Apollo" whose music is beautiful ! Sincerely
I am unfortunately not as familiar with Stravinsky as with others - my personal favourites include the classic Tschaikovsky (all of his ballets) and Ludwig Minkus specifically, 'La Bayadère' and 'Don Quixote'. However, my favourite role that Diana Vishneva did was a variation from 'Carmen' at the Mariinsky Gala in 2013. I had never seen anyone dance so remarkably then.
According to other commentators, the conductor could not have Stravinsky because he died before the ballerina was born, though he was a conductor, when he was alive.
My wife and I, who, had never seen a full-length ballet before, although she had taken lessons as a child, watched this together and it is fair to say we were enraptured. Living in the heart of the Brazilian outback, youtube is the only chance we ever have to see such things. It is also a privilege to see a performance that is more or less as it would have been done 100 years ago when this was first produced. What an amazing thing! We are now going to look for Petrushka and (God help us) The Rite of Spring. Still, l if it comes up to this standard...
It was interesting what you wrote and i was wondering,How wold you describe the story of The Firebird after seeing it?
I'm going to see my first live balet in oktober and it will be this one. I've seen many operas but this will be a new experience.
Find Petrushka with Andris Liepa, there is a wonderful Russian film .. he was amazing dancer before he retired. So reminiscent of heroes Russian Fairy Tale boxes and in books.
Andris was also gorgeous in Firebird, it was like looking at the illustrations in a fairy tale book. I have it on one DVD with Petrushka and Scherezade
Petrushka is one of my favourites. Also, if you have time, try The Green Table done by the Joffrey Ballet. It's on youtube in approx 7 installments. Very worth the trouble of watching in 7 segments! :)
画像を出してくれてありがとうございます。最後まで見ましたこれから１０回ぐらい観ると思います。東京からです。
My favorite Firebird dancer and one of my favorite Firebird costumes
Absolutely! Mine too!
This is, by far, the best Firebird I have ever seen. Usually, the opening Firebird-Prince pas is the major dancing, and the rest is pantomime. This was much more fully realized, and gave the great score its due. I loved Vishneva, and I thought the Prince and Princess were very good too. A great production!
My opinion also! A masterpiece! I have it on dvd also!
Synopsis:
One day, the Tsar's son, Ivan Tsarevich, goes hunting and manages to capture a bird with wings like fire, who is obviously the Firebird the name is mentioning. The Firebird begs for her release, and offers Ivan one of her magic feathers. Ivan agrees and is told to wave that feather whenever he is in trouble. Ivan releases the Firebird and keeps hunting. He comes across 12 maidens and a princess that are all playing a game with golden apples from a tree. Ivan joins their game and learns that they are captives of an evil king named Kastchei, whose soul is protected inside of an egg in a casket. If the egg is destroyed, he dies. The maidens and the princess leave, and warn Ivan not to follow. But he does, and enters Kastchei's palace. He sets off an alarm, and is captured. Kastchei tries to turn him to stone. Ivan waves the feather the Firebird gave him and the Firebird sends Kastchei and all of his "subjects" in to a mad dance. Eventually, they crash and the Firebird shows Ivan where the casket with Kastchei's soul is. Ivan breaks the egg, killing Kastchei. Although Stravinsky didn't mention this in the original score, a lot of productions end with Ivan marrying the princess.
So there you go.
@Ian Welsman
I want to give you tip. You can use the word the 'aforementioned' for the 'the name is mentioning'. You can say 'the name aforementioned' :D
Thank you so much for the synopsis! ❤️
Thanks so much for the synopsis!
@@TheLoghouseTeacher De rien!
@@cliffpinchon2832 Those too.
8:49 Ivan captures the Firebird. 14:54 The Firebird gives Ivan the magic feather for help in time of trouble. 20:42 Ivan encounters the 12 maidens and the princess, King Kastchei's captives. 33:05 Ivan summons the Firebird to redeem her promise. 43:16 Ivan breaks the soul egg, killing evil king Kastchei thereby freeing the captive maidens and princess. 47:21 Ivan marries the princess.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life. For once I'm happy to be alive.
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bravo bravissimo............Tres bien fait. Merci Monsieur Stravinsky. J'aime bein l'histoire L'Oiseau de Feu. Zhar Ptitsa en Russe. C'est tres spirituael and ca nous aide de devenir Le varie Soi que nous sommes.
Огромное спасибо за чудесный подарок
Diana embodies music and dance all by herself.
Her vivacious, classy, unassuming and charming personality matches the plot and theme of the masterpiece by Stravinsky, who is embodiment of music himself.
Agility, flexibility, artistic fluidity, musicality, subtleness and beauty swept me off my feet.
Diana must have nee sent from above like her great predecessor and role model- Yulia Mikhalina.... though both utterly different personalities.
Stravinsky the greatest revolutionary and visionary composer of the XXth century produced an imaginary, mystical opus... the most breath-takingly ballet of the last century.
Thank for posting the marvelous rendition....
Hello, I have a question and I hope someone can answer it for me! I'm working on a project about ballet trough the ages for school and I have to find a version of The Firebird that is very close to the original one. I don't know of this one is because I have never seen this ballet before. If you know please say so and if you know another one that is more suitable for my project please comment. Thank you!
The conductor (I know not who he is) won me over instantly with his entrance. May he prosper, forever.
The best way to watch the original Nijinsky choreography to Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), especially for dancers who are accustomed to Swan Lake type beautiful ballet, is to think of it as 2/3 aerobics and 1/3 ballet. The Nijinsky choreography is absolutely stunning and mirrors perfectly the music which is about Pagan rituals in ancient Russia. After watching the Joffrey performance (or perhaps even before) one should definitely watch Riot at the Rite which gives great background including the commotion which took place at the first performance of the ballet on May 29, 1913.
Fabulous pas de Deux with intense fluidity sensual passion truly a masterpiece preserved with reverence to detail for 'Fokine's' genius to 'Stravinsky's beautiful score. Wonderful dancers here!!!
Whoever dislike this clearly does not understand beautiful music
To audition as a flautist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, you have to send in a CD of you playing the Firebird Suite.
Absolument éblouissant : la danseuse étoile Vishneva, le prince, la chorégraphie, l'orchestre
Сцена возле яблони как ожившая роспись с палехской шкатулки 7:33. А птица по-настоящему порхает! И Иван-царевич такой настоящий! Чудесный балет!!!
No doubt about it. Diana Vishneva is just EXQUISITE!
Our ballet studio is doing this production in the spring and I can't wait. We were supposed to do it a couple years ago but COVID happened.
wow trop trop cool vraiment je suis ebloui quelle irascibilite quelle richesse quelle peripatetitienne
So powerful--musically,, athletically, and theatrically!
Красота неописуемая. Браво Кировский! Костюмы супер, постановка в самых лучших классических традициях, исполнение на самом высоком уровне.
It‘s so electrifying. Wonderful dance, costumes, stage.. I believe this is also a lot of fun for the dancers to be part of the production. Despite all the hard work. I guess many of them are still students from Vaganova academy
This was the best I have ever seen.
Nossa, que coisa linda, parece desenho animado. 💟
This 1st trumpet in the end is on fire
THE COSTUMES are Perfect and i Like the end too. Beautiful.
how beautiful, magical this is
Uma das Obras Primas da HUMANIDADE, do GENIO, IGOR STRAVISNKI!!!!!!!!!
Diana Vishneva is a beautiful Firebird. Just lovely.
Splendide!
Que lindo!
So good 😊 The Firebird was gorgeous ❤
Que belleza!!!!! Gracias!
34:15 for the infernal dance
Just gorgeous, both the work and the performance. The love scene is one of the most beautiful of all I've ever seen in whatever kind of artwork.
Wow, perfecta, bellísima!!! ♥️
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STRAVINSKY 🤘🤘🤘
Las criaturas es mi personaje favorito
So beautiful and magical!
Yes
This is a more modern , much longer and wonderful version of the Firebird, wonderfully done , entrancing in every way, though I love parts of the original version too.
Actually this IS the original version.
The firebird is so distinctive!!
irenelivy I think the most brilliant I've seen
For those looking for the finale: 44:54
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STRAVINSKY 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks Chihiro
I LOVE ballet and I'm getting lessons in the summer!
Hermosa ella y el ballet!
j'adore ce ballet♡
Oui moi aussi!
Justine Gauthier bien 😏
Although I much prefer the Royal Ballets Goncharova designs- the dancing in this is far superior to the Benjamin -Cope version also the acting is of a much more commited and higher standard You can really believe in the characters !!1
Siegfried I completely agree
Thank you
j'aime bien
One thing I don't like, is that if Firebird could do all she did at the end, then why didn't she just overpower the prince in the beginning?... If I could rewrite it, I'd have Firebird humble the prince, instead of begging HIM to spare HER, and only give him the feather, as she stumbles upon him, broken, and alone, after being rejected by the girl.
I don't think it's a mistake because fairy tale is a genre that is unrealistic in principle. There must be logic in it but not so strict. The main thing is fantasy, beauty, archetypes, emotions, poetry... And this is a superb fairy tale in its scenic and musical realization.
Nah she had power over the magical creatures.
I'd guess there was something in the original stories this ballet is based on to explain that a little. But nonetheless I think it's more interesting this way. It's kind of a funny paper-rock-scissory dynamic. Prince>mythical creature>sorcerer>prince.
Perhaps she had the ability to escape, but she wanted to test his character? To see if he would spare her?
@@dianastamos4439 That's a good point.
splendide
Princess dancer #8 is so beautiful
I’ve heard of Stravinsky’s firebird but I’ve never watched it before this. Yet I knew for sure that it was firebird the moment she walked in at 7:24 ! And it wasn’t even stated in the title! (Not in English anyways)
Very beautiful.
Me ha gustado mucho, conoce alguien dónde se celebró, director de orquesta y reparto del ballet
mr chaumeil je vous aime de tout mon coeur
Enchantment from start to finish nonstop.... 😍
Magnifique!
Sheer admiration !
Yo estoy preparando esa obra en mi academia!!!
Comme je l'ai déjà dit,je préfère de très loin ces ballets aux pauvres films qui ne montrent que l'éternel EGO de nous autres pauvres humains BRAVISSIMO!!!!!!
vous etes trop beau
October 2002 Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Диана Вишнева прекрасная балерина, балет получился красивый, магический. Музыка особенно магическая, опасная для эмоционального зрителя. Спасибо, baletart!
I came her because of Isao Tomita's electronic interpretation, but the ballet is very beautiful to watch, too. :)
Diana Vishneva is so beautiful in this ballet! Is this the only ballet Igor Stravinsky composed for?
Yes Diana Vishneva is beautiful.
Stravinsky composed many other ballets but not sepcialy for her.
The most famous is "The Rite of Spring" but there is also "Petrouchka" or less known "Apollo" whose music is beautiful !
Sincerely
I am unfortunately not as familiar with Stravinsky as with others - my personal favourites include the classic Tschaikovsky (all of his ballets) and Ludwig Minkus specifically, 'La Bayadère' and 'Don Quixote'. However, my favourite role that Diana Vishneva did was a variation from 'Carmen' at the Mariinsky Gala in 2013. I had never seen anyone dance so remarkably then.
Stravinsky also wrote the music for the ballets The Rite of Spring and Petruska.
Also Les Noces, Apollo, Agon, Orpheus, Jeu de Cartes. Stravinsky had a close artistic relationship with the choreographer George Balanchine.
Stravinsky could hardly compose something for her as he died 5 years before her birth :-))
Hermoso!!!!!!
Héctor garcía fkv,fmcmx🤐😇🤐😮♩$gfeu4ubfh.......
A blas español 🙀🙀
stunning!
Mohamed Kamara yes 🙈😉👍👏
Do you know what year this particular performance was recorded?
hi
8:38 YEET!
Do we know who's playing Prince Ivan?
Totally didn't research this cause I was reading 'Dance Of The Shadows' (which the fire bird is a big part in)
But „Dance of shades“ is a different ballet (La Bayadère) 🤔 Have to look up the book 📖
@@mathildewesendonck7225 it's 'dance of the firebird' which is just another thing for the 'L'Oiseau d's fue'
Sweetheart_Gacha * ok thank you 😉 I thought you were talking about some book 😅
trop swaggy drippy
Great visually, the orchestra sound a bit of a mess in places, but still good
It's the poor quality of recording.
No, the timing is off and certain sections aren't together, regardless of the recording quality
rite of spring guitar man
I miss Vishneva.
geil
vaya chusta de obra
It's a pity that there aren't contrabassoons in the orchestra.
The guy playing the prince looks like Flash Gordon lol
#화장대에서화장실다녀와서다시자엄마라포레아파트야잘게아들♡
Firebird!!!
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STRAVINSKY 🤘🤘🤘
What year was this?
Geez! Nice girls! ; ^ )
Where si the gray wolf?
To see Stravinsky's face as he conducts this...it is enrapturing.
Was Stravinsky conducting?
According to other commentators, the conductor could not have Stravinsky because he died before the ballerina was born, though he was a conductor, when he was alive.
#라포레요^^♡화장실다다녀와서다시자화장대에서요아드님
Xylo excerpts: 33:35
Beautiful restaging. Does anybody know the name of the dancer who plays the role of Prince Ivan?
0:30
Quel magnifique opéra
(Vous savez je le connaît c'est mon prof de musique😂)
Bonjour monsieur Chaumeil👋🏼
A que te refieres? 🤔🧐😡
OMG - that skeleton guy is so creepy!
11 lily
Kaschtchei
I love it
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STRAVINSKY 🤘🤘🤘
44:55ホルンソロ
Bonjour c’est Enzo de NDL de la classe de MR Dubois en 6n
34:17
38:23
bien bien, bonne fin
Oui c'est vrai!
digga warum geht das video 50 minuten
Who doesn’t love the symphony of coughs
1) Watch this with the sound off.
2) While watching, play the music from this: ruclips.net/video/cYdsBXC7ZR8/видео.html
7:30