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Pina's Orpheus

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Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice Paris Opera Ballet July 22, 2012

Paris Opera Ballet's Giselle

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Giselle Paris Opera Ballet July 13 and 14 (evening), 2012

Raymonda at the Bolshoi

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Recently the La Scala Ballet released a DVD version of a reconstruction of the 1898 production of Raymonda . That video is a must for balletomanes, as it really brings a lot of dignity and clarity back to this ballet. I thought about that reconstruction as I watched the HD transmission of the Bolshoi Ballet's Raymonda . The production is of course by that great aesthete, Yuri Grigorovich, who managed to make every single production he's ever created ugly. (I could do a nice little poll. Mirror mirror on the wall, which is the ugliest Grigorovich production of them all?)