toursenlair Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 The Hamburg Ballet premiered John Neumeier's take on the Onegin story this week, and have just released this video of rehearsals. Can't say I'm a fan of Lera Auerbach's music (for this or the other ballets Neumeier's commissioned from her (Preludes CV, Little Mermaid), which is a shame because I love his choreography. Tatjana LarinaHélène BouchetEugen OneginEdvin Revazov 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonbfisher Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Hello. I've just tried to view this clip but it says "Invalid Parameters" - this is a new one on me! Any advice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Worked for me on my laptop using Firefox. I sometimes get funny results on my phone. It looks seriously interesting! Katherine, does this mean Hamburg won't do Cranko's Onegin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted July 4, 2014 Author Share Posted July 4, 2014 Worked for me on my laptop using Firefox. I sometimes get funny results on my phone. It looks seriously interesting! Katherine, does this mean Hamburg won't do Cranko's Onegin? I doubt they're abandoning Onegin; in fact they are performing it this week. The audience in Hamburg, it seems to me, is not the type who would say "Well, we've already got one ballet based on this story... been there, done that." A German reviewer, klassik.com, described the new Tatiana as "worth a trip to Hamburg". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 The national papers were much more reluctant, Neumeier’s ballet got mostly mixed or even bad reviews. Most critics kept compairing Tatjana to Cranko’s Onegin, seldom in favour of Neumeier’s version. Neumeier was a corps de ballet dancer in the creation of Cranko’s Onegin at Stuttgart in 1965 (he played on of the old guys in act 2 for example), so he saw the making of the whole ballet. Hamburg Ballet keeps the Cranko Onegin, so you can compare the two versions during the Ballett-Tage in July. here’s a review in English language: http://danceviewtimes.typepad.com/ilona_landgraf/2014/07/power-melts-away.html For those of you who read German, some of the reviews: http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article129637617/Die-Geschichte-des-gemeinen-Eugen-jetzt-auch-aus-Sicht-der-Landpomeranze.html http://www.fr-online.de/kultur/tanz-puschkins-vampir,1472786,27686476.html http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article129645571/Hamburger-Ballett-Tage-Tatjanas-Traum-Leben-als-Lebenstraum.html http://www.tanznetz.de/blog/26497/eine-starke-frau http://www.die-deutsche-buehne.de/Kritiken/Tanz/John+Neumeier+Tatjana/Traeumerei http://www.jungewelt.de/2014/07-01/012.php http://www.tanz.at/kritiken/kritiken-2014/1060-hamburg-ballett-neumeiers-tatjana.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caspermil Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 http://www.hamburgballett.de/e/_gala.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 The national papers were much more reluctant, Neumeier’s ballet got mostly mixed or even bad reviews. Most critics kept compairing Tatjana to Cranko’s Onegin, seldom in favour of Neumeier’s version. Neumeier was a corps de ballet dancer in the creation of Cranko’s Onegin at Stuttgart in 1965 (he played on of the old guys in act 2 for example), so he saw the making of the whole ballet. Hamburg Ballet keeps the Cranko Onegin, so you can compare the two versions during the Ballett-Tage in July. here’s a review in English language: http://danceviewtimes.typepad.com/ilona_landgraf/2014/07/power-melts-away.html For those of you who read German, some of the reviews: http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/kultur/article129637617/Die-Geschichte-des-gemeinen-Eugen-jetzt-auch-aus-Sicht-der-Landpomeranze.html http://www.fr-online.de/kultur/tanz-puschkins-vampir,1472786,27686476.html http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article129645571/Hamburger-Ballett-Tage-Tatjanas-Traum-Leben-als-Lebenstraum.html http://www.tanznetz.de/blog/26497/eine-starke-frau http://www.die-deutsche-buehne.de/Kritiken/Tanz/John+Neumeier+Tatjana/Traeumerei http://www.jungewelt.de/2014/07-01/012.php http://www.tanz.at/kritiken/kritiken-2014/1060-hamburg-ballett-neumeiers-tatjana.html Thank you: your list is something I was hoping for. I've not read any review so far and I'm watching Tatjana later this week: I'll come back here to compare my personal impression with the critics one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 (edited) I read only the English reviw and unfortunately I have to agree about almost everything. I was very bored. Even if able to create suggestions and ethnic atmosphere the music is almost impossible to be used for a ballet being unable to mark significant points, but Neumeier had little immagination and everything seems disconnected from the score, bad pdds and repeated side by side dancing (one really want to shoot one of the two dancers or maybe both of them), everything seems overlong as not choreografically worked out enough: maybe it will improve cut after cut, but you have to be brave to be back. The carachters don't really emerge, Onegin is quite dull, Lensky dominated by frenetic silliness, Tatjana doesn't grow and is married with a super sweet super smiling gawky peasant wearing an uniform, at least Olga is Olga. Being familiar with the poem and other derived works, I was disappointed especially by the 2nd act, where Pushkin was totally diminished or maybe absent. :-( At least the sets were very good (but the costumes terrible). Only Alina Cojocaru, sitting yesterday in the first row at the side of Neumeier, could force me back, but I really hope that she will be busy elsewhere when the work will be repeated the next season. Cojocaru will be Juliet tonight in Neumeier Romeo and Juliet: a great actress and great music and a wonderful masterpiece by Hamburg Ballet director, the best to forget and forgive Tatjana. Edited July 11, 2014 by annamicro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Here's the official trailer. I'm afraid it hasn't made me want to dash to Hamburg! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSeJOZkLRZA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Here's the official trailer. I'm afraid it hasn't made me want to dash to Hamburg! The video is even the worse than the ballet: clearly an hard task to present it as appealing. Anyway there are many other good reasons to dash to hamburg! ;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barton22 Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 A dvd/blu ray of this ballet is due to be released early next month. It is available for pre-order on Amazon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Can't say I'm a fan of Lera Auerbach's music (for this or the other ballets Neumeier's commissioned from her (Preludes CV, Little Mermaid), which is a shame because I love his choreography. I have to say that I have found much of the music recently commissioned by the R.B. to be considerably worse. As a matter of interest, which current composers do posters feel could engage with narrative ballet? Do we need a Klaus Badelt or Hans Zimmer, who can tell a story rather than someone intellectually considered a composer of note? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Most NB fans are also fans of Philip Feeney who has composed a number of works for the Company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Shortcake Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 I can't say that Neumeier's "Tatiana" appeals to me, and I find it very frustrating that this comparatively recent work will soon be available on DVD when so many of the choreographer's other ballets (particularly his wonderful version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") haven't been filmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 I desperately need his "Nijinsky" on DVD... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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