01 Jan 1989
Noces
A filmed performance of Stravinsky's ballet Les Noces (The Wedding), depicting a bleakly cynical interpretation of the marriage ritual.
Hypothetically Murdered
In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as well as dancing girls, a jazz band, a dancing dog, sequences of silent film, simulated air-raids and gas attacks, a lorry, a storm, waiters and waitresses in a luxury restaurant, river nymphs and even a scene in Heaven with the Devil, the Twelve Apostles, the Archangel Gabriel and all the other angels doing a blasphemous knees-up. The show was naturally a momentary scandal and the score soon disappeared. In 1991 Gerard McBurney reconstructed from the surviving sketches a sequence of 21 of the orchestral numbers to make a hilarious sequence of gallops, saucy polkas, marches and schmoozy waltzes.
Top Billed Cast
Natalia de Froberville Mashenka Kurochkin
Artyom Mishakov Stopka Kurochkin
Sergei Mershin Beyburzhuyev
German Starikov Angel
Anna Pushvintseva-Poistogova Showy Lady
Eugenia Chetverikova Dancing Couple
Denis Tolmazov Dancing Couple
Lyaisan Gisatullina Barmaid
Alexey Budrin Accordion Player
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