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Coreography by Marius Petipa (1898) Reconstruction and Mise en Scène by Sergej Vikharev
Music by Aleksandr Glazunov
Directed by Michail Jurowski
Original Scenes by Orest Allegri, Pëtr Lambin and Konstantin Ivanov Created by Elena Kinkulskaya and Boris Kaminsky
Original Costumes by Ivan Vsevoložskij Created by Irene Monti, Luci Marco Filibeck
Historical research by Pavel Gershenzon
CAST:
Raymonda, contessa de Doris - Olesia Novikova
Cavaliere Jean de Brienne, fidanzato di Raymonda - Friedemann Vogel
Abdérâhman, cavaliere saraceno - Mick Zeni
Henriette, amica di Raymonda - Mariafrancesca Garritano
Clémence, amica di Raymonda - Francesca Podini
Béranger, troubadour d'Aquitania - Claudio Coviello
Bernard de Ventodour, troubadour Provenzale - Marco Agostino
Contessa Sybille, canonichessa, zia di Raymonda - Sabina Galasso
Andrea II, re d'Ungheria - Luigi Saruggia
La Dama Bianca, protettrice della stirpe dei de Doris - Manuela Aufieri
Siniscalco, che governa il castello dei de Doris - Matteo Buongiorno
Ufficiale Verlé - Matthew Endicott
Soliste (Atto I, secondo quadro) - Antonella Albano, Daniela Cavalleri
Danza saracena (Atto II) - Serena Sarnataro, Maurizio Licitra
Danza spagnola - Beatrice Carbone, Eris Nezha
Mazurka (Atto III) - Lara Montanaro, Alessandro Grillo
Palotás - Beatrice Carbone, Mick Zeni
Solista Pas classique hongrois (Atto III) - Antonella Albano
The last great work from the glorious era of the Imperial ballets has never before been performed by the La Scala ballet. Its La Scala premiere marks the most faithful version of Raymonda yet to the original, which met with triumphant success in St. Petersburg in 1898.
Based on a medieval legend, with ladies, knights, crusaders and Saracens, cathedrals and castles, the libretto had all the ingredients needed to spark the imagination of the young Alexander Glazunov in his first ballet score, and the infinite wisdom of Petipa, who complemented it with an enormously rich and endless succession of dances, classical variations, exotic dances and character dances, with a grandiose finale, pantomime, lyrical pas de deux and a heavily featured corps de ballet. Olesia Novikova and Friedemann Vogel feature.
