Savin's altogether a sympathetic character. Savin as Gringoire shared her quarters, but not her bed, besotten by her and worried on how he's going to learn dancing to keep up with Esmeralda, rather than reciting poems. Alexandrova was superb in it, expressing her joy of living as well as her sympathy to the poet, who rescued him from hanging in exchange of his betrothal, and her sudden crush for the captain with whom he begged him for a sash of his as a keepsake. The following scene is Esmeralda's sleeping room, a small vaulted chamber, somewhere next to Notre Dame cathedral. To see the first act starting with the 'court of miracles', the pickpockets, and the beggars, the bohemians and the students and the orphan Esmeralda and her encounters with the two men in her life, Gringoire, the poet, and the captain Phoebus de Chateaupers, as well as the malice of Frollo the priest, and Quasimodo the bell-ringer. The narrative afforded the serial display one after the other: the crowd and its concern, the protagonist(s) in intimacy, act after act. Osipova and Vasiliev were not there, but the dancers that were there displayed treasures, -cornucopias that feasted the eyes and the senses- act after act and scene after scene, until Pugni brought the melodrama to its emotional peak.

The sets formed a coherent historical space, and the costumes were visually vibrant and urbane, and the dancers, oh my, the dancers danced their hearts out. I found it gratifying and luxuriously displayed. This week the Bolshoi brought the HD of Esmeralda. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the Bolshoi presented the Sleeping Beauty (HD Theater) -Sure David Halberg was great, but the sets were awful.The Sleeping Beauty is Tchaikovsky's greatest ballet Grigorovich was chopping the score as if it were a Reader's Digest version., We received Grigorovich 'lite'. Lots of corps de ballet dancing throughout all acts. Reconstruction Yuri Burlaka/ Denis Medvedevįirst performed by Her Majesty's Theatre, London, March 9, 1844

Serial esmeralda