| | |  | Ballets & Classics | Home » » » Khachaturian - Spartacus (1990) | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Irek Mukhamedov, Alexander Vetrov, Maria Bilova, Lyudmilla Semenyaka, Bolshoi Opera Ballet | | Director:
| Algis Zhuraitis | | Format:
| Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| German, French, English, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Arthaus Musik | | Run Time:
| 136 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 16, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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 Poor video transferOct 26, 2009
The transfer is horrible. The video is fuzzy and somewhat out of focus. The colors are not matched to video standards for NTSC. This seems to have been a transfer from tape to DVD. Almost unwatchable, if it were not for the star's dancing. The corps de ballet makes several errors...watch at the start and you will see two mis-steps where two dancers are on the wrong foot (marching). The editor quickly changes shot.
Please transfer the laser disc version, which is so superior.
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SPARTACUS-Balé do Realismo SocialistaSep 07, 2009
O Estado Soviético tinha a mania de se meter em tudo, queria controlar a vida de seus cidadãos de maneira plena. Nas artes não foi diferente: desenvolveu uma estética que ele, (o Estado), achava ideal. Valores como o coletivo, o trabalho em comunidade, a simplicidade do campo eram os mais queridos dos comunas do século passado. Impostos de cima para baixo, são uma aberração do século XX. O balé Spartacus é um trabalho que os comunas julgavam ser dessa estética. A luta dos escravos contra os poderosos romanos simboliza a própria luta do comunismo contra o capitalismo, opressor contra oprimido. Não podemos nos esquecer que o balé foi composto e produzido por encomenda na década de 50. Os soviéticos tinham na lembrança a hercúlea luta contra os nazistas. Mais uma simbologia.
Toda arte produzida de forma artificial, por encomenda, através de algum burocrata do Kremlin, fica sem graça. Não é o resultado da criatividade de algum gênio da música, das letras e da dança. Primeiro Stalin adorou a idéia desse balé, embora tenha morrido sem assistí-lo. Aran Khachatarian ficou incumbido da composição, seguiu a cartilha comunista, fez uma música sem inspiração, fria, marcial, que abusa dos metais.
Spartacus tem seu ponto forte na coreografia. Yuri Grigorovich coreografa belos números, muitas vezes utiliza passos de dificuldade máxima para mostrar a superioridade soviética nas artes sobre o ocidente. Quebra a sequência dramática, tira o ritmo da dança, o que importa é a dificuldade técnica. Joga para a galera, aplausos efusivos a cada momento. Algum burocrata deve tê-lo obrigado a isso.
Nas duas versões comerciais disponíveis, da mesma produção do Bolshoi, os bailarinos são exigidos ao máximo. Mukhamedov e Bessmertnova vencem todas as dificuldades da coreografia com a segurança e a força que só a escola russa apresenta. Na outra versão, o mesmo Mukhamedov faz par com Lyudmilla Semenyaka, esta um pouco menos sensual que a primeira. Todos os solistas estão perfeitos, o corpo de baile age como um desfile militar, sisudos, dançam no tempo certo, sem falhas.
Ali Hassan Ayache
1 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Best so farApr 10, 2007
The best version available today. When is a new production going to be in DVD (and may be in HD)with surround sound? who knows...
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 AS PEOPLE LIKE TO SAY IN MINNESOTA: AWSOME!Sep 22, 2005
This is truly worth the price tag even though you may not be a big fan of ballet, this performance will make one out of you. This is just superb on every level. I have the old Bolshoi production which was filmed on a soundstage. Try as they might, they couldn't bring the soundtrack up to modern expectations. The laser disc version came close. I was thrilled to see this new 1990 production on DVD with sound as spectacular as the dancing. The music of this ballet can stand alone. I have it on CD. It's one of the best works by Khachaturian. Add the fantastic dancers and colorful sets and you've got a dynamite production. I highly recommend this one!
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STUNNINGSep 10, 2005
I am only a minor fan of ballet. However, this performance was truly moving.
Ballet must communicate its story without using dialogue. The choreography and expressive dancing fully succeeded here. The dancers' movements were both strikingly athletic and gracefully delicate and the costumes and scenery were extremely effective in setting the period atmosphere. Aram Khachaturian's music was lush, beautiful and sometimes poignant, well performed by the theater orchestra.
The Romans, led by Crassus, are obviously the bad guys. Having the Roman soldiers march in a goose-step like the Nazis was extremely expressive. Also, in some of the scenes the motions of the aristocratic Romans were more fluid and graceful than those of Spartacus' slave followers, who were more primitive and athletic. This powerful visual symbolism was used to show the class differences between the antagonists.
Phyrigia danced with heart-breaking grace, expressing feminine beauty at its loveliest. Her love scenes with Spartacus were beautifully erotic.
All technical aspects of this dvd were first rate.
This production grabbed my attention from start to finish. Highly recommended.
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