Aspects of Nijinsky
| Conductor | Simon Hewett |
| Étoile | Roberto Bolle |
programme |
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|---|---|
| Petruška |
Burlesque in four acts and one prologue Teatro alla Scala New Production
John Neumeier, choreography, sets and costumes backdrops from drawings by Vaslav Nijinsky Igor Stravinsky, music |
| L’Après-midi d’un faune |
Teatro alla Scala New Production
John Neumeier, choreography, sets and costumes Claude Debussy, music |
| Le Pavillon d’Armide |
Ballet by John Neumeier based on Aleksandr Benois Teatro alla Scala New Production
John Neumeier, choreography, sets and costumes Nikolai Tcherepnin, music |
Hailed personality, at the same time fragile and sensitive; in the spotlight or in the shadows of his intimate torments, Vaslav Nijinsky remains today the object of absolute fascination. John Neumeier has explored this exceptional figure - the dancer, the choreographer, the human, the visionary - his complexity and facets in many of his ballets, driven by a deep artistic, historical but, above all human interest. For the first time at La Scala, his original reading of Le Pavillon d’Armide, L’Après-Midi d’un Faune, and a new version of Petruška for la Scala, three masterpieces symbolic of the creative ferment of the Ballets Russes and of the brightest star of this revolutionary avant-garde.
