We are delighted to recommend to our audience “Le Corsaire” of the Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala, which will be held on August 8 – 9th at the NCPA Beijing.
In 1826, Giovanni Galzerani presented on the Piermarini stage “Le Corsaire”, the first ballet based on The Corsair by Lord Byron and in 1857 Domenico Ronzani brought it to the stage once again. Today, the 1998 choreography by Anna-Marie Holmes, an expert of XIX-century ballets, brings to the audience the most exciting title of the dance repertoire in a new concept: an adventure that cannot be missed.
The Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala
The Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala has a glorious past dating back to the centuries prior to the opening in 1778 of the world’s most celebrated musical theatre, which is still its home today. Even before the founding of the Imperial-Royal Academy of Ballet of La Scala in 1813, eminent choreographers such as Gasparo Angiolini and Salvatore Viganò held great influence over European ballet. Then, the illustrious teacher and theorist, Carlo Blasis, introduced the ballet into the Romanticist atmosphere, thus contributing to the technical innovation of its style.
And so, the Ballet Company of La Scala entered the twentieth century, thanks also to remarkable choreographers from Diaghilev’s company such as Mikhail Fokin and Léonide Massine. New names arrived from the worlds of the free and expressionist dance of Central Europe, names such as Aurel Milloss, whom Arturo Toscanini charged with the task of rebuilding the Company following the Second World War. For his repertoire, Milloss invited great musicians and celebrated set designers and painters, as well as illustrious guests such as George Balanchine. In the 1950s and 1960s, La Scala became a stage open to the stars of the world of ballet.
More recently, the Ballet Company of La Scala has grown in international visibility, performing at the Paris Opéra, in the United States, at the Bolshoi in Moscow and the Mariinsky-Kirov Theatre in Saint Petersburg, in Germany, Turkey, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and China.
Live Orchestra: National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra
The National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1959. LIU Ju is the resident conductor. The Orchestra members mainly graduated from renowned music academies of China. At the average age of 35, they all have been subject to rigorous professional training with excellent music quality. As a national orchestra of China, the NBC Symphony Orchestra has great vitality and potential for development.