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Le Spectre de la rose. Le Spectre de la rose (English: The Spirit of the Rose) is a short ballet. It is about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenirrose from her first ball. He based it on a verse by Th. The music is Hector Berlioz's 1. Carl Maria von Weber's piano music Afforderung zum Tanz (English: Invitation to the Dance). Nijinsky danced The Rose and Tamara Karsavina danced The Young Girl. It was a great success. Spectre became internationally famous for the leap (jump) Nijinsky made through a window at the ballet's end. In 1. 91. 1, Ballet Russes producer Sergei Diaghilev hoped to present Nijinsky's ballet L'Apr. It was not ready for the stage, so he needed another ballet to take its place. That ballet was the idea of writer Jean- Louis Vaudoyer. In 1. 91. 0, he had sent an idea for a ballet to Ballets Russes set and costume designer L. His idea was based on Le Spectre de la rose, a verse by Th. Diaghilev liked Vaudoyer's idea. He thought it could easily take the place of Faune. He put Vaudoyer's idea into development at once. He also wrote a program for this work about a young man and woman who meet, dance, and part at a ball. The quiet music at the opening of Afforderung leads to some beautiful (and busy) waltz tunes before the work ends with the opening music. A second example comes from the song . Joyce DiDonato – Berlioz. Movie; Amazing; Fashion & Beauty; Speeches; Education; Earth Nature. This version of the music was used for a short ballet in Weber's opera Der Freisch. He later wrote that the ballet was almost an improvisation. Instead, it is a forward- looking, modern dance of continuous movement and expressiveness. He used instead curving, tendril- like movements of the arms and fingers. Nijinsky became an androgynous character in this ballet, one showing masculine power in his legs and a feminine delicacy in his arms. The costume was covered with silk rose petals. Hector Berlioz, Berlioz, Hector: Birth place: La C Nijinsky was stitched into the costume for every show. Romula de Pulszky, later to be his wife, wrote that he looked like . Nijinsky's servant Vasili would collect the petals and sell them as souvenirs. It was said that he built a large house called Le Ch. The height of the leap was an illusion though. Nijinsky took five running steps from the middle of the stage and leapt through the window on the sixth step. The skirting board (base board) under the window was very low, giving the illusion that the leap was higher than it was. Behind the set, four men caught Nijinsky in the air and put warm towels on him. No one saw Nijinsky land. It looked like he would fly on for all time. The illusion was helped by the conductor in the orchestra pit who held the next to the last chord. In doing so, the leap was given a sense of great length and height. The Young Girl comes into the room dressed in a white bonnet and ball gown. She has come home from her first ball. She holds a rose as a souvenir of the evening. She drops into a chair and falls asleep. The rose falls from her fingers to the floor. The Spirit of the Rose is seen at the window. He steps to the floor and nears The Young Girl. Still asleep, she rises and dances with him. He leads her back to the chair, kisses her, then leaps through the window and into the night. The Young Girl awakes and rises. She picks up the rose she dropped and kisses it. Tamara Karsavina danced The Young Girl and Nijinsky danced The Rose. After all, the ballet had been designed for Nijinsky's very special talents. This was for Germantelevision in 1. He first danced The Rose on stage (2. New York City for the Joffrey Ballet's Diaghilev program in 1. Spectre was the last ballet Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn danced together. That was in June 1. He danced The Rose in Paris in 1. August 1. 98. 7 at the London Coliseum with the Nancy Ballet. Berlioz (H 9. 0). The Hector Berlioz Website. Retrieved 5 May 2. Rudolf Nureyev Foundation. Retrieved 4 June 2. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 June 2. The original dances, sets, and costumes were recreated for this production. In 2. 01. 2, a record of the production was available on VHS in a program called Paris Dances Diaghilvev. Balanchine, George (1. Stories of the Great Ballets, New York: Anchor Books, ISBN 0- 3. Beaumont, Cyril W. Knopf. Schouvaloff, Alexander (1. The Art of Ballets Russes, New Haven and New York: Yale University Press, ISBN 0- 3. Woodstra, Chris (ed.); Brennan, Gerald (ed.); Schrott, Allen (ed.) (2. All Music Guide to Classical Music: the definitive guide to classical music, San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books, ISBN 0- 8. Listen to this article . Download Berlioz Les Nuits D. Click to DOWNLOAD button to generate hd quality mp.
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