li tai po Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Astana Opera Ballet have now posted online the second performance (15 February 2020) of Raimondo Rebeck's "Beethoven, Immortality, Love" with the second cast - Daler Zaparov as Beethoven, Mariko Kitamura as Immortal Love, Gaukhar Ussina as Euterpe (Inspiration) and Serik Nakyspekov as Deafness. The ballet is in two acts and six sections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
li tai po Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 BEETHOVEN, IMMORTALITY, LOVE (Raimondo Rebeck) - synopsis The rolling credits give a detailed synopsis in Kazakh, then Russian and finally English. They roll rather fast, so I have transcribed them in the attachment here, which you can also use to follow during the performance. Incidentally a presidential decree in October 2017 ordered that the Kazakh language be transitioned from Cyrillic script to Latin script, to be completed by 2025. This is to aid communication of the Kazakh language in the digital world. Beethoven synopsis.docx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Asanta Ballet in Petit's Coppelia ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Very sad news. Tair Gatauov, principal of Astana Opera and Honoured Artist of Kazakhstan passed away because of traffic accident on June 10th. The company will stream La Bayadere with him as Solor this evening in honour of this great artist on YouTube (Japan time 22:00 so I guess 15:00 in UK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 How desperately sad. May he RIP. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Dreadfully sad news. May Tair Gatauov Rest in Peace. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 And you can watch Astana Opera's La Bayadere here with the late Tair Gatauov as Solor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
li tai po Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Tair was one of Astana Opera Ballet's five male principals. Here is a half-hour tribute here to Tair, showing some of his roles. R.I.P. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpsichore Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 I have been watching videos of La Sylphide and La Bayadere by the Astana Opera Ballet on YouTube and have been impressed. As far as one can tell from a video, their opera house seems to be an excellent auditorium. I had not been following this stream and the reason I looked up the company is that there is an outside possibility that I may one day visit Astana or Nur Sultan as I believe it is now called. It appears that the Kazakhs are trying to establish a financial services hub in Nur Sultan called the Astana International Financial Centre with its own legal system based on the common law of England. Proceedings are in English and several retired English judges sit in the court including Sir Robin Jacob who used be our senior patents judge and briefly a Lord Justice of Appeal. There appear to have been only two cases so far and one of those was decided by Sir Robin. Recently I wrote an article about the court in my other blog. Should I find myself in Nur Sultan I shall try to attend the ballet and review whatever I see for this website. In the meantime I am grateful to the contributors for their information on this topic. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Uploads appear to be continuing here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbaUBJvHT5tfRh4JpHHFBkQ/videos I just can't decipher most of them CORRECTION: As pointed out by Jeanette below, this is the "other", older Kazakh company rather than the Astana Opera Ballet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, alison said: Uploads appear to be continuing here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbaUBJvHT5tfRh4JpHHFBkQ/videos I just can't decipher most of them Thanks, Alison. Quite a find! Premiering in the next 10 hours: Two-act national ballet, Legends of the Great Steppe by choreographer-librettist Gulzhan Tutkibayeva & music by no fewer than seven composers...wow! Almost as many composers as modern versions of Corsaire! Some of the featured dancers: Sultan - Kanat Karazhanov His daughter - Gulvira Kurbanova Young Batir - Farkhad Buriev Soul of the Steppe - Nailya Krebayeva Predvoditel - Azamat Askanov etc, etc. Edited July 24, 2020 by Jeannette 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, alison said: Uploads appear to be continuing here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbaUBJvHT5tfRh4JpHHFBkQ/videos I just can't decipher most of them p.s. Note that this is the older, more established ballet company in Almaty, former capital of Kazakhstan...not the relatively new troupe in the new capital of Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana)...the one affiliated with Assylmuratova. They both toured London last fall. Both companies are good and very well endowed. Edited July 24, 2020 by Jeannette 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodlandGladeFairy Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Astana Opera Ballet have put up a stream of Chopiniana (Les Sylphides) and Schéhérazade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Oh good. I enjoyed their Scheherezade last time I watched it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 BTW, their Swan Lake link up-thread still looks as though it's live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
li tai po Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 The Astana Opera Ballet is presenting its opening ballet gala tomorrow (Friday) at 7 pm Kazakh time (2 pm UK time). The live audience is restricted to 50 persons, but it is being shown on Kazakh TV. The programme includes Petipa's Harlequinade Pas de Deux, Messerer's Spring Waters, a pas de deux from Petit's Notre Dame de Paris, Scheherazade pas de deux, extracts from two Kazakh ballets and an extended extract from Le Corsaire. All the principal dancers are performing. Here is the link https://tengrinews.kz/tv/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
li tai po Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Well I thoroughly enjoyed watching a live show from Astana, for once - and some of the dancers have become quite familiar. The dancing was a bit tentative, but the dancers were clearly enjoying being back on stage after six months' gap. Aigerim Beketaeva and Bakhtyar Adamzhan were fully committed in Notre Dame de Paris, and there was plenty of attack from Anel Rustemova and Daler Zaparov in the Corsair pas de deux. Tomorrow (Saturday) they are streaming a live performance of Scheherazade with Anastasia Zaklinskaya and Bakhtyar Adamzhan - it transmits at 1 pm UK time. The same link https://tengrinews.kz/tv/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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