Le Corsaire

Le Corsaire (2019)

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Since its 1856 premiere at the Paris Opera, Le Corsaire has been regarded as one of the most impressive narrative ballets of the 19th century. The work became particularly popular in the versions by Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa and, of course, through the spectacular “Le Corsaire pas de deux,” made world-famous by Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. For this first performance of the ballet in full at the storied Wiener Staatsoper in 2016, Wiener Staatsballett director Manuel Legris—after a 23-year tenure as an étoile dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet!—choreographed a new version based largely on the rich French and Russian performance traditions. Action, music, choreography, scenery and costumes are carefully combined into a new overall picture which focuses on the high points of the colorful events surrounding the leading couple of Conrad and Medora, sublimely danced by Robert Gabdullin and Maria Yakovleva!

Director: François Roussillon

Casts

	Maria Yakovleva as Médora
	Robert Gabdullin as Conrad
	Liudmila Konovalova as Gulnare
	Kirill Kourlaev as Lanquedem
	Davide Dato as Birbanto
	Alice Firenze as Zulméa
	Mihail Sosnovschi as Seyd Pasha
	Natascha Mair as Odalisque
	Nina Tonoli as Odalisque
	Prisca Zeisel as Odalisque

Crew