"Pembrokeshire area substituted for Turkey and Portugal. Due to its popularity in Sweden, the series inspired the name for a real-life shipping line in Stockholm, the Ånedin-Linjen, founded in 1973, which until recently operated cruises in the Baltic. The music behind the opening credits of the series is an excerpt from the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet ""Spartacus"" by Aram Khachaturian. Other background music includes excerpts from Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 5, Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Jean Sibelius's Tapiola, symphonic poem for"
"in composing one internationally acclaimed work in the last 30 years of his life, the ballet ""Spartacus"". According to James Bakst, what made Khachaturian unique among Soviet composers is ""the blending of national Armenian vocal and instrumental intonations with contemporary orchestral techniques"". Khachaturian's music is characterized by an active rhythmic development, which reaches either a mere repetition of the basic formula (ostinato) or ""a game of emphasis within this formula"". Khachaturian is best known internationally for his ballet music. His second ballet, ""Gayane"", was largely reworked from his first ballet, ""Happiness"". ""Spartacus"" became his most acclaimed work in the post-Stalin"
"Ludwig Minkus Ludwig Minkus (), also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (23 March 1826 – 7 December 1917), was a Jewish-Austrian composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher. Minkus is noted for the music he composed while serving as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. During his long career, he wrote for the original works and numerous revivals staged by the renowned Ballet Masters Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa. Among the composer's most celebrated compositions was his score for ""La source"" (1866; composed jointly with Léo Delibes), ""Don Quixote"" (1869);"
"1984. He was responsible for the opera's folk dances in the 1950s, and then for Opera performances in the 1960s, including Gounod's Faust, Wagner's Tannhaüser. In 1968, he choreographed ""Spartacus'"", his first ballet in three acts with the Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. His work has been widely recognized in Hungary and abroad, having performed and presented performances in theaters and Opera houses in Moscow, Rome, Prague, Bordeaux, Edinburgh, Cologne, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Vienna, Salzburg, Paris, Turin, London, Zurich and Sydney. László Seregi died on May 11, 2012 in Budapest at the age of 83. László Seregi"
"period. These two compositions ""remain his most successful compositions"". According to Jonathan McCollum and Andy Nercessian, his music for these two ballets ""can safely be included among the best known pieces of classical music throughout the world, a fact that is vitalized by perception that these are perhaps the only works through that the world really knows Armenian music"". Ann Haskins of ""LA Weekly"" suggests that he has thus ""made an indelible mark on the world of ballet"". ""Spartacus"" was popularized when the ""Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia"" was used as the theme for a popular BBC drama series ""The"
"Ballet, Minkus came to the attention of the renowned choreographer Marius Petipa. Petipa arrived in the imperial capital in 1847, where he was engaged as ""Premier danseur"" to the Imperial Theatres, as well as assistant to the Ballet Master Jules Perrot, who served as ""Premier Maître de Ballet"" to the company from 1850–1859. Petipa was named second ""Maître de Ballet"" after the success of his grand ballet ""The Pharaoh's Daughter"", set to the score of the Italian composer Cesare Pugni. Pugni had served as ""Ballet Composer of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres "" since 1850, a post which was created"
"(1940) and the Cello Concerto (1946). His other significant compositions include the ""Masquerade Suite"" (1941), the Anthem of the Armenian SSR (1944), three symphonies (1935, 1943, 1947), and around 25 film scores. Khachaturian is best known for his ballet music—""Gayane"" (1942) and ""Spartacus"" (1954). His most popular piece, the ""Sabre Dance"" from ""Gayane"", has been used extensively in popular culture and has been covered by a number of musicians worldwide. His style is ""characterized by colorful harmonies, captivating rhythms, virtuosity, improvisations, and sensuous melodies"". During most of his career, Khachaturian was approved by the Soviet government and held several high"
"Michigan and Wayne State University. He claimed to prefer composition, because it let him ""run among the disciplines without getting caught"". Joseph LoDuca Joseph LoDuca is an American television and film score composer best known for his work writing television scores for the series ""Spartacus"", ""Leverage"", """", """", ""Young Hercules"", ""The Librarians"" TV series, ""American Gothic"" and ""Jack of All Trades"". Originally an accomplished jazz guitarist in the Detroit (MI, USA) area, LoDuca frequently provides music for producer/director Sam Raimi, producer/director Dean Devlin and actor Bruce Campbell's films and series. Prior to his work on ""The Evil Dead"", his first"
"Igor Yebra Igor Yebra Iglesias (born August 1, 1974, Bilbao) is a Spanish freelance ballet dancer. Igor Yebra was born in Bilbao, Spain, and was encouraged to start dancing by his parents, two music and dance enthusiasts who named him Igor in honour of the title character in Borodin's opera. Surrounded by ballet and music during his childhood, primarily due to his parents' dance school, Igor never considered becoming a professional dancer and, just like other Spanish children, he dreamed of being a football player. It was only after his parents took him to see Aram Khachaturyan's ballet ""Spartacus"", starring"
"stages of production, Kubrick had actually commissioned a from Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for ""Spartacus"" and also worked on ""Dr. Strangelove"". However, during postproduction, Kubrick chose to abandon North's music in favor of the now-familiar classical pieces he had earlier chosen as ""guide pieces"" for the soundtrack. North did not know of the abandonment of the score until after he saw the film's premiere screening. Also engaged to score the film was composer Frank Cordell. Cordell stated in interviews that the score would primarily consist of arrangements of Gustav Mahler works. This score remains unreleased."
"Yakobson was taking jobs in minor provincial theaters where he staged various short ballets. He was not allowed to stage grand ballets. In 1953, after the death of Stalin, the anti-Semitic campaign gradually decayed, and in 1955 Yakobson was again invited to Leningrad to stage a ballet; this time it was ""Spartacus"" by Aram Khachaturian. Yakobson was the first choreographer who agreed to work on this ballet. Yakobson's choreography violated all canons of classical ballet. He removed the ballet pointe shoes and tutus, and actors were dressed in tunics and sandals like in ancient Rome. He replaced the classic ballet"
"Joseph LoDuca Joseph LoDuca is an American television and film score composer best known for his work writing television scores for the series ""Spartacus"", ""Leverage"", """", """", ""Young Hercules"", ""The Librarians"" TV series, ""American Gothic"" and ""Jack of All Trades"". Originally an accomplished jazz guitarist in the Detroit (MI, USA) area, LoDuca frequently provides music for producer/director Sam Raimi, producer/director Dean Devlin and actor Bruce Campbell's films and series. Prior to his work on ""The Evil Dead"", his first film, he released a jazz LP titled ""Glisten"". LoDuca's credits include 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, 11 Primetime Emmy Nominations, and “Most"
"his students and instilled the idea that composers should master their nations' folk music heritage. In 1950, he began working on his third and last ballet, ""Spartacus"" (1950–54), which later proved to be his last internationally acclaimed work. He was named People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1954. He revised ""Spartacus"" in 1968. ""Following the success of ""Spartacus"" towards the end of the fifties, his remaining years were devoted less to composition, and more to conducting, teaching, bureaucracy and travel."" He served as the President of the Soviet Association of Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with Latin American States from"
"line of dialogue or after the final line. Almost no music is heard during scenes with dialogue. The film is notable for its innovative use of classical music taken from existing commercial recordings. Most feature films then and now are typically accompanied by elaborate film scores or songs written specially for them by professional composers. In the early stages of production, Kubrick had commissioned a from Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for ""Spartacus"" and also worked on ""Dr. Strangelove"". But during post-production, Kubrick chose to abandon North's music in favor of the now-familiar classical pieces he"
"for Petipa's one-act ballet ""L'Offrandes à l'Amour"", staged especially for the benefit performance of the ballerina Eugenia Sokolova on . Minkus's music was hailed as a masterwork of ballet music by contemporary critics. It would be his last known ballet score for Petipa. By 1886 Minkus's contract with the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres was set to expire. In light of this, the director of the Imperial Theatres Ivan Vsevolozhsky felt that the time had come for Minkus's long held post of official ballet composer to be abolished in an effort to diversify the music supplied for the ballet. Minkus officially"
"Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer) Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (Russian: Влади́мир Ви́кторович Васи́льев), (born April 18, 1940) is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer from Moscow, Russia. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000. He was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns. Vladimir Vasiliev was named ""God of the dance"" and is regarded as a classical dancer on the same level as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. At the height of their careers, Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova were the golden couple of Russian ballet. Vladimir Vasiliev"
"not exercise such control over one of his films. The original score for ""Spartacus"" was composed and conducted by six-time Academy Award nominee Alex North. It was nominated by the American Film Institute for their list of greatest film scores. It is a textbook example of how modernist compositional styles can be adapted to the Hollywood leitmotif technique. North's score is epic, as befits the scale of the film. After extensive research of music of that period, North gathered a collection of antique instruments that, while not authentically Roman, provided a strong dramatic effect. These instruments included a sarrusophone, Israeli"
"Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus is a 1992 concept album produced and composed by Jeff Wayne with Lyrics by Gary Osborne, telling the story of Roman gladiator, Spartacus. It starred Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones (in her first recording role), Fish, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Scots singer Alan King as Spartacus. It was also the first Jeff Wayne release that is not related to his musical adaptation of ""The War of the Worlds"". Based on a story outline by Jeff Wayne, the script was written by writer Brian Sibley and playwright John Spurling with"
"""Rassvet"" (Sunrise), while another composer Eduard Lazarev wrote ""Broken Sword"", based on the poem ""Ghosts"", by Mihai Eminescu, a leading Romanian writer. In its first ten years, the company added many well-known classical ballets to its repertoire, including ""Giselle"", ""The Sleeping Beauty"", ""Spartacus"" and ""Coppelia"". It toured to Moscow, Kiev and Bulgaria. The most successful of the company’s modern ballet productions was ""A Young Lady and a Hooligan"", based on music by Shostakovitch, in which the lead dancer was Mihai Caftanat, who is still working with the company. Born in Chişinău, Caftanat studied ballet in Moscow, returning to his native"
"Carnaval (ballet) Carnaval (Russian: ""Карнавал"") is a ballet based on the music of Robert Schumann's piano suite ""Carnaval"", Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered in Pavlovsk on 5 March (old style, 20 February) 1910. The leading dancers of the Imperial Ballet were engaged in the production: Tamara Karsavina (Columbine), Leonid Leontiev (Harlequin), Vera Fokina (Chiarina), (Estrella), Bronislava Nijinska (Papillon), Vsevolod Meyerhold (Pierrot), Vasily Kiselev (Florestan), and (Eusebius). The ballet became world-famous due to its"
"exist outside the action, while uplifting it. With regard to the space docking sequence, Ebert stressed the peculiar combination of slowness and majesty resulting from the choice of Strauss's ""Blue Danube"" waltz, which brought ""seriousness and transcendence"" to the visuals. Speaking of the music generally, Ebert wrote: 2001: A Space Odyssey (score) The ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, ""."" In the early stages of production, Kubrick had commissioned noted Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for ""Spartacus"" and also worked on ""Dr. Strangelove"","
"The Seasons (ballet) The Seasons (, ""Vremena goda""; also ) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Op. 67. The work was composed in 1899 and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The score for Marius Petipa's ""Les Saisons"" (""The Seasons"") was originally intended to have been composed by the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music and ""chef d’orchestre"" to the Ballet of the"
"Reisinger of the requirements for each dance. However, unlike the instructions for the scores of ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and ""The Nutcracker"", no written instruction is known to have survived. From around the time of the turn of the 19th century until the beginning of the 1890s, scores for ballets were almost always written by composers known as ""specialists,"" who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time in vogue for ballet. Tchaikovsky studied the music of ""specialists"" such as the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Ludwig Minkus, before setting"
"ballets ""The Nutcracker"", ""Swan Lake"", and ""The Sleeping Beauty""; as well as Alexander Glazunov for his score for the ballet ""Raymonda"". In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as ""Le Talisman"" (1889), ""Le Réveil de Flore"" (1894) and ""Les Millions d'Arlequin"" (1900). Cesare Pugni wrote extensively for the harp as well—his ballet ""Éoline, ou La Dryade"" included music written for harp to accompany the ballerina's numerous variations and enhance the atmosphere of the ballet's many fantastical scenes. Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the ""Variation de la Reine"
"the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914) to write the music. There is no evidence, however, despite the much-repeated story that Lyadov was slow to start composing the work, that he ever accepted the commission to begin with. There is evidence to suggest that Nikolai Tcherepnin had previously started composing music for the ballet—music which became ""The Enchanted Kingdom""—but that Tcherepnin, for reasons unexplained, withdrew from the project after completing only one scene. Diaghilev eventually transferred the commission to the 28-year-old Stravinsky. The ballet was premiered by the Ballets Russes at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 25 June 1910, conducted"
"music by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fancy Free (ballet) choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein; and a new work) ""Peter and the Wolf"" (choreography by Michael Smuin, music by Sergei Prokofiev, opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) ""Giselle"" (music by Adolphe Adam) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Cinderella"" (music by Prokofiev) ""Director's Choice"" (Traveling Alone choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods; and a new work) ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) Ballet MasterWorks (includes Igor"
"were the legal property of the ballerina they were composed for). Petipa created the ""pas de deux"" to music by Ludwig Minkus, ballet composer to the St Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The piece was a standard ""pas de deux classique"" consisting of a short ""entrée"", the ""grand adage"", a variation for each dancer individually, and a ""coda"". Tchaikovsky was angered by this change, stating that whether the ballet was good or bad, he alone should be held responsible for its music. He agreed to compose a new ""pas de deux"", but soon a problem arose: Sobeshchanskaya wanted to retain Petipa's choreography."
"choreographer Robert Helpmann. The next collaborator to be identified was the designer, Edward Burra. The composer Arthur Bliss set to work on the score, with scenario and initial designs before him. The Royal Ballet performed the ballet every season from 1944 to 1950 and revived it in 1958, but it did not perform it in Glasgow itself when touring Scotland in 1945. They also performed the ballet in Paris. Bliss wrote the music in 1943 after his return from the United States. He created a concert suite from the ballet music, choosing seven of the fifteen numbers in the ballet,"
"Competition in Moscow and was immediately invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer, where he not only became Grigorovich's favourite danseur but went to become the youngest man ever to dance the leading role in ""Spartacus"". After leaving the Soviet Union, he became a Senior Principal Dancer with the Royal Ballet in London, remaining with the company for many years and dancing lead roles in the classic ballets as well as the English repertoire. For nine years he was the Bolshoi's leading male dancer. His repertoire included ""Ivan the Terrible"", ""Don Quixote"", ""Swan Lake"", ""Romeo and Juliet"","
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"by Lar Lubovitch and The Faraway - choreography by Matthew Neenan) ""Dracula"" (choreography by Michael Pink, music by Philip Feeney) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Romeo and Juliet"" (choreography by Alun Jones) ""Great Galloping Gottschalk"" (choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk) ""Rodeo"" (choreographed by Agnes de Mille, music by A. Copland) ""Don Quixote"" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Beauty and the Beast"" (choreographed by Domy Reiter-Soffer, music by Seen-yee Lam) ""Echoing of Trumpets"" (choreographed by Antony Tudor) ""Celts"" (choreographed by Lila York) Since 1961, ""The Nutcracker"" has"
"Vsevolozhsky commissioned the Italian Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of the Imperial Ballet & the Imperial Italian Opera—to compose the score for Petipa's lavish ""Le Talisman"", also staged for Cornalba. Although the ballet was not a success Drigo's score was much praised by contemporary critics. The director Vsevolozhsky commissioned the great composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky to compose the score for Petipa's ""The Sleeping Beauty"", which premiered on . The ballet proved to be Petipa's most enduring work, going on to be considered as the quintessential classical ballet, as well as one of Petipa's ultimate masterpieces of choreography. The ballet proved to be"
"fact that Riccardo Drigo supplied nearly all of the supplemental music for Cornalba's appearances in already-existing ballets during her season with the Imperial Ballet. Petipa's ""Kalkabrino""—a work that has been historically credited to Minkus—premiered on for the benefit performance of another visiting Italian, Carlotta Brianza, who in the previous year created the role of the Princess Aurora in the Petipa/Tchaikovsky ""The Sleeping Beauty"". Although the score for ""Kalkabrino"" was credited exclusively to Minkus it is not certain if the composer took part in its creation, which Russian historians have stated was a score set to a pastiche of airs taken"