Corsaire from Vienna on Arte online

[Geoff]

No idea which countries the link works in, nor how long this will stay up, but I have just watched some of this 2016 recording of The Corsaire (with a pretty fab cast) and all seems ok at the moment:-

 

Liudmila Konovalova (Médora)

Vadim Muntagirov (Conrad)

Natascha Mair (Gulnare)

Francesco Costa (Lanquedem)

Davide Dato (Birbanto)

Alice Firenze (Zulméa)

Mihail Sosnovschi (Seyd Pascha)

 

Click here: http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/065868-000-A/le-corsaire

Edited January 4, 2017 by Geoff

[Geoff]

Well, it seems a correction is in order. I took the cast list from Arte's own website, yet several dancers didn't seem to be right so I just spun to the end credits and the cast is indeed mostly different to the list I posted (I have taken a screen shot of the closing roller but can't figure out how to paste it here, sorry).

Edited January 4, 2017 by Geoff

[Rachelm]

Great find! Thanks!

[Blossom]

Thanks for sharing. They had another lovely production of Corsaire which was available last year - would love to see more story ballets on Arte. I did a quick check on the site since I was there and they do seem to have a Balanchine celebration from the NYCB and a Nicolas le Riche Gala (with Sylvie Guillem)  from 2014 which looks interesting having read the blurb and skipped through - include L'apres midi d'un faune from what I can see.. Lots of lovely new ballet viewing so thanks for original post!