Bolshoi ballerina Ludmila Semenyaka / produced by Gosteleradio for Entertainment Video Co.

Additional Titles:: Title on label: Ludmila Semenyaka, Bolshoi ballerina
Published:: [University Park, Pennsylvania?] : [Producer not identified], [2022]
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators:: Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910, Semeni͡aka, Li͡udmila, 1952-, Liepa, Andris, Lavrovskiĭ, Mikhail, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893, Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856, Melikov, Arif, 1933-2019, Khachaturi͡an, Aram, 1903-1978, Drigo, Riccardo, 1846-1930, Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet SSSR po televidenii͡u i radioveshchanii͡u, and Kultur Video

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Dance profile

Contents:

The sleeping beauty. Rose adagio / music by Peter Tchaikovsky -- A solar duet / music by Babadjanyan -- Giselle / music [by] Adolphe Adam -- Legend of love / music by Arif Melikov -- Swan lake. Pas de deux / music by Peter Tchaikovsky -- Spartacus / music by Aram Khatchaturian -- The talisman / music by Ricardo Drigo -- The nutcracker / music by Peter Tchaikovsky.

Summary:

Leningrad-born Ludmila Semenyaka made her first impression internationally at the 1969 Moscow competition, and three years later was invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. This video shows why she has long been considered one of the world's prima ballerinas. In this program Ms. Semenyaka performs excerpts from many of her most famous roles, and is paired with some of the greatest dancers of the past two decades.

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Related Titles:

Sunny duet (Choreographic work : Kasatkina and Vasilëv)
Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Grigorovich after Petipa, M). Selections
Giselle (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Coralli and Perrot). Selections
Legend of love (Choreographic work : Grigorovich). Selections
Swan lake (Choreographic work : Grigorovich after Gorski, Ivanov and Petipa, M). Selections
Spartacus (Choreographic work : Grigorovich). Selections
Talisman (Choreographic work : Petipa, M). Selections
Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Grigorovich, after Ivanov)

Note:

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives,
Originally issued on VHS videocassette by Kultur Video in 1989.
Use copy of video content now fragile in original format. Media conversion undertaken based on Fair Use analysis. Copy created March, 2022.
Penn State use only. Not for interlibrary loan.

Participant/Performer Note:

Ludmila Semenyaka, Andris Liepa, Mikhail Lavrovsky [and others].

Technical Details:

DVD-R.

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