The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart (2015)
The first-ever recording on film of Maurice Béjart's Ninth Symphony! Fifty years after its premiere, the Tokyo Ballet and Béjart Ballet Lausanne present Maurice Béjart’s groundbreaking choreography to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Tokyo's NHK Hall. With nearly 200 artists on one stage, Beethoven’s score was performed by the Ritsuyu-kai Choir, the soloists Kristin Lewis, Mihoko Fujimura, Kei Fukui, and Alexander Vinogradov, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta.
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Kristin Lewis as |
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Mihoko Fujimura as |
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Kei Fukui as |
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Alexander Vinogradov as |
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Zubin Mehta as Self - Conductor |
| Crew | Maurice Béjart | Choreographer |