Name: Reflections on Carmen
Start: 2021-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-07-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Harris Theater

Organization

Grant Park Music Festival

Conductor

Carlos Kalmar

Orchestra

The Grant Park Orchestra

Reflections on Carmen

Willard

United States

Harris Theater

Public

Symphony No. 8 in G major

Entr'acte

Carmen Suite

Approved

Enjoy this wonderful dance performance featuring choreographer Melina Bezanis and friends to get you in the mood! Grant Park Music Festival will be live-streaming their performance of this piece on Friday, July 30 and Saturday, August 1, 2021. The concert will also feature Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte and Haydn Symphony No. 8, Le Soir. Watch our YouTube channel or go to gpmf.org for more info. 

Concert details can be found directly here: https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.co...

Dancers: 
Melina Bezanis
Rayan Lecuriex-Durival
Virgina Santucci
Thibaut Witzleb

Videography: 
Tommy Espinal

Carmen Suite / Shchedrin - Dancers - Grant Park Music Festival

In 1967, Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso embarked upon a dance piece for the prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya. It was to be inspired by the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. Alonso had trouble settling upon a composer for the project when the solution was right under his nose: the ballerina's husband, Rodion Shchedrin was a well respected Soviet composer. Soon, Shchedrin had produced the Carmen ballet.

Fast forward to 2021, in anticipation of the Grant Park Music Festival performance of Shchedrin's score, choreographer Melina Bezanis created this video short with fellow dancers Rayan Lecuriex-Durival, Virginia Santussi and Thibaut Witzleb. Enjoy!

English

Reflections on Carmen by Haydn, Shaw, C., Shchedrin, From (2021/2021), Conductor Carlos Kalmar, Harris Theater, Willard, United States

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