Ballet of Vienna state Opera will present in Madrid version of “The Corsair” – The Arsenal, daily managed and done by journalists,

Madrid.- The Ballet of the Vienna state Opera will present at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a new version of "The Corsair", in an adaptation choreographic frenchman Manuel Legris based on the original piece with a few variations.

the representation of The 11 to the 14 of January will be the first that the group of viennese makes out-of-town since releasing this version in march last, and the music will be led by specialist Russian classical ballet Valery Ovsyanikov.

"The Corsaire", by Adolphe Adams and the choreographer Joseph Mazilier and the playwright Jules-Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges, premiered in Paris in 1856, and subsequently in 1868, the frenchman Marius Petipa adapted the work for the Bolshoi Theatre for which adds some "step two" in the choreography.

Legris, current director of the Ballet of the Opera of Vienna, explained in a press conference that this is his first adaptation of a classic work, which was a challenge due to the complexity of the script and number of characters.

he Recalled that it was a work widely recognized that it is not so common in the ballet because of the difficulty of assembling, and that their first challenge was to make a story more simple and understandable "but with respect to the original piece".

For this, he said that was based a lot on what has been done by Petipa, and added to it other versions in choreography and music to achieve the story he wanted, and that was well received last year at the Opera of Vienna.

Said that if you are interested in this work is because in his years of dancer in the Paris Opera was never part of the repertoire, and that caught the attention to study, and generate a new version.

Ovsyanikov pointed out that it is a version that differs from the original "for the elegance of the assembly", and that to be seen it is understandable why takes versions of other representations as the sum of the elements of the life of the people "as love, hate, friendship and betrayal."

The play, in three acts and five scenes, is the work of scenery of the Italian Luisa Spinatelli, in a work that includes assembling pirate ships, palaces and various scenarios.

NTX

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