The theme for television's 'The Apprentice', is taken from which ballet by Prokoviev?
"Apprentice: How to Get Hired Not Fired"". On 16 February 2006, the book was revised with additional information relating to the second series. An official magazine was first released on 23 May 2007. It includes items about business, interviews with candidates from the programme and other ""Apprentice""-related features. ""The Apprentice"" has included various pieces of classical and popular music throughout. Numerous pieces from film soundtracks are used as well as music featured in the BBC TV series Doctor Who. Examples of the music used include the opening theme (""Dance of the Knights"" from ""Romeo and Juliet"" by Prokofiev) and ""The"
"Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace works based primarily on choreographic display and innovation). Following Radlov's acrimonious resignation from the"
"of the same name). Mikhail Baryshnikov danced it with City Ballet in 1979 and Damian Woetzel danced it at his farewell performance on Wednesday, 18 June 2008. The Prodigal Son (ballet) The Prodigal Son, or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 () is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29). The libretto, based on the parable in the Gospel of Luke, was by Boris Kochno, who added a good deal of drama and emphasized the theme of sin and redemption ending with the Prodigal Son's return. Susan Au writes in ""Ballet and"
"The Prodigal Son (ballet) The Prodigal Son, or Le Fils prodigue, Op. 46 () is a ballet created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by George Balanchine to music by Sergei Prokofiev (1928–29). The libretto, based on the parable in the Gospel of Luke, was by Boris Kochno, who added a good deal of drama and emphasized the theme of sin and redemption ending with the Prodigal Son's return. Susan Au writes in ""Ballet and Modern Dance"" that the ballet was the last of the Diaghilev era, choreographed the year the great impresario died. She continues: ""Adapted from the biblical story, it"
"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"
"action takes place at Yslaev's country house in 1850. The story concerns the emotional disturbance caused by the presence of a tutor in the home of a country Russian family. Natalia Petrovna, a bored wife, falls for the young tutor of Kolia, Belaiev. The ballet contains a series of ""pas de deux"" which carry the action forward: Natalia and her admirer Rakitin, Belaiev and Vera, Natalia’s ward, Belaiev and the maid Katia, and Belaiev and Natalia. In the finale, Vera summons the household to witness the embraces of Natalia and Belaiev; Rakitin tells Belaiev that both of them should leave"
"de ballet. His mentor was Nikolay Tsiskaridze and within one year he was given the leading role in the ballet ""The Nutcracker"". From 2009 he studied under Nikolai Fadeyechev and since 2016 his repetiteur has been Victor Barykin. Ovcharenko’s repertoire covers most of the classical romantic roles: Romeo, The Prince in ""The Nutcracker"", and Prince Siegfried, as well as leading roles in neoclassical productions such as George Balanchine’s ""Apollo"" and ""Jewels"", ""Lady of the Camellias"" by John Neumeier, ""Onegin"" by John Cranko, ""Lost Illusions"" by Alexei Ratmansky, and ""Marco Spada"" by Pierre Lacotte. With an ever-eager interest in exploring new"
"Russia's first Conservatories in St Petersburg and in Moscow: the former trained the great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93), best known for ballets like ""Swan Lake"", ""Sleeping Beauty"", and ""The Nutcracker"". He remains Russia's best-known composer outside Russia. Easily the most famous successor in his style is Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), who studied at the Moscow Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky himself taught). Alexander Glazunov also took this romantic style. The late 19th and early 20th century saw the third wave of Russian classics: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). They were experimental in style"
"Cinderella (Prokofiev) Cinderella (, ""Zolushka""; French: ""Cendrillon"") Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it Prokofiev broke off to write his opera ""War and Peace"". The premiere of ""Cinderella"" was conducted by Yuri Fayer on November 21, 1945, at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Rostislav Zakharov and Galina Ulanova in the title role. ""Cinderella"" is notable for its jubilant"
"guest performances. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there have been a few attempts to reduce the theatre's traditional dependence on large state subsidies. Corporate sponsorship occurs for some productions, but state funding is still the lifeblood of the company. The Bolshoi has been associated from its beginnings with ballet. Tchaikovsky's ballet ""Swan Lake"" premiered at the theatre on 4 March 1877. Other staples of the Bolshoi repertoire include Tchaikovsky's ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and ""The Nutcracker"", Adam's ""Giselle"", Prokofiev's ""Romeo and Juliet"", and Khachaturian's ""Spartacus"". The chief ballet conductor from 1923 to 1963 was Yuri Fayer. After the death"
"made two recordings with Kirov Orchestra in 2001 and London Symphony Orchestra in 2011. Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace"
"unable to find work in the Soviet theaters. After working for some time as a schoolteacher, he was invited to the Leningrad Kirov Theater (Mariinsky Ballet). His first work was choreographing the second act of ""The Golden Age"", a 1930 ballet by Dmitri Shostakovich. The act required athleticism from the dancers; overall, the ballet targeted young people. The ballet itself was heavily politicized: its plot revolved around Soviet football players going to a bourgeois country where they were baited by police, fascists, and capitalists. The plot required the inclusion of such dances as tango, foxtrot, and tap dancing, which at"
"published before its première Extracts from ""Cinderella"" authorized by the composer Cinderella (Prokofiev) Cinderella (, ""Zolushka""; French: ""Cendrillon"") Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it Prokofiev broke off to write his opera ""War and Peace"". The premiere of ""Cinderella"" was conducted by Yuri Fayer on November 21, 1945, at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Rostislav Zakharov and Galina"
"of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and the Original Ballet Russe. She had in turn learned it from her teacher Pavel Gerdt, once the Imperial Ballet's leading male dancer who partnered all of the great ballerinas of the late 19th century and early 20th century in the role of Lise, including Virginia Zucchi. To inspire Lanchbery to write music for the ""Clog Dance"", Ashton took the composer to a performance of Lancashire clog dancers. This dance is performed in the ballet by Lise's mother, the Widow Simone. Lanchbery decided to use the leitmotiv for the Widow Simone from Hertel's score,"
"were dancers with the imperial ballet: Alexander Chekrygin (ru: , Victor Rakhmanov, Nikolay Kremnev (ru: Николай Кремнев), and S. Ponomaryev (ru: С. Пономарев). The collection also includes notation created by students. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Nicholas Sergeyev left Russia with a great number of the notated choreographies. In 1920 he was invited by Sergei Diaghilev to stage the Petipa/Tchaikovsky ""The Sleeping Beauty"" from the notations for the Ballets Russes in Paris, but Diaghilev's insistence on altering passages of Petipa's choreography apparently caused Sergeyev to withdraw his services. In 1921 Sergeyev took over the post of ""régisseur"" to the"
"shapes and lack of ballet technique. It caused controversy by depicting the faun rubbing the scarf of one of the maidens on himself, in simulated masturbation. The most controversial work of the Ballets Russes however, was ""The Rite of Spring"", choreographed by Nijinsky with music by Stravinsky. The ballet's modern music, pigeon toed stomping and theme of human sacrifice shocked audiences so much they rioted. After the “golden age” of Petipa, Michel Fokine began his career in St. Petersburg but moved to Paris and worked with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. Russian ballet continued development under Soviet rule. There was"
"Bald Mountain,"" music by Mussorgsky (1924), ""Pulcinella,"" music by Stravinsky (1926), and ""The Fox"" (1927). His attempts to evolve the principles of classical dance were displayed in the acrobatic movements and character dances closely resembling the original ethnic dances they sprung forth from in his ballet ""The Ice Maiden"" with music by Grieg (1927). He also staged ""The Bolt"" by Shostakovich in 1931. Lopukhov assembled courses for choreographers from 1937-1941 at the Leningrad Choreographic School. He was artistic director of the choreographic section in the stage directing department at the Leningrad Conservatory starting in 1962. Lopukhov’s other choreographed ballets include"
"Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from ""The Love for Three Oranges,"" the suite ""Lieutenant Kijé"", the ballet ""Romeo and Juliet""—from which ""Dance of the Knights"" is taken—and ""Peter and the Wolf."" Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas,"
"Tchaikovsky most admired Adam's 1844 score for ""Giselle"", which used the ""Leitmotif"" technique: associating certain themes with certain characters or moods, a technique he would use in ""Swan Lake"", and later, ""The Sleeping Beauty"". Tchaikovsky drew on previous compositions for his ""Swan Lake"" score. According to two of Tchaikovsky's relatives – his nephew Yuri Lvovich Davydov and his niece Anna Meck-Davydova – the composer had earlier created a little ballet called ""The Lake of the Swans"" at their home in 1871. This ballet included the famous ""Leitmotif"", the ""Swan's Theme"" or ""Song of the Swans"". He also made use of"
"Swimmer (ballet) Swimmer is a 42-minute ballet made by Yuri Possokhov set to music he commissioned from Shinji Eshima, plus existing music by Kathleen Brennan, Gavin Bryars and Tom Waits, for the San Francisco Ballet. The première took place on Friday, 10 April 2015 at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco and it was revived by the company in 2016. Based on the 1964 short story by John Cheever called ""The Swimmer,"" it incorporates the choreographer's vision of the United States while growing up in the Soviet Union. Other sources of inspiration included Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, J.D. Salinger’s The"
"Montagues and Capulets Montagues and Capulets is a work of classical music written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The piece is the first one in the Suite No. 2 from ""Romeo and Juliet"", Op. 64ter, which consists of two parts from his 1935 ballet ""Romeo and Juliet"". He wrote versions for both orchestra and piano. The work is in loose ternary form, with an abridged ""da capo"" section. The introduction of the piece corresponds to No. 7 of the complete ballet score, ""The Prince Gives His Order"", which is following ""The Fight"" between the Montagues and the Capulets. This theme"
"André Prokovsky André Prokovsky (13 January 1939 – 15 August 2009) was a Franco-Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, and company director. Admired as a bravura performer and an innovative choreographer, he had a varied career that was broadly international in scope. Born in Paris to Russian parents, Prokovsky began ballet training in his youth, studying with some of the leading teachers in Paris, including Lubov Egorova, Nora Kiss, Serge Peretti, and Nicholas Zvereff. At age fifteen, he made his stage debut with the Comédie-Française in a 1954 production of Molière’s ""Les Amants Magnifiques"". He then danced in ballet troupes directed by"
"of poetry; Polyhymnia, the muse of rhetoric; and Terpsichore, the muse of dance. The theme is: Apollon musagetes instructs the muses in their arts and leads them to Parnassus. The ballet is divided into two ""tableaux"": Balanchine shortened the title to ""Apollo"" in the 1950s, which Stravinsky himself came to prefer. Despite the popularly considered Balanchine-Stravinsky Greek link due to Balanchine's later work with Stravinsky scores in ""Orpheus"" and ""Agon"", the music for ""Apollo"" was commissioned by the Library of Congress. ""Orpheus"" may be considered a sequel to ""Apollo"" but ""Agon"" is a formal plotless ballet whose title in Greek"
"are performed by mixed dancers, while others, such as ""Cossack's Cavalry Dance"", are performed by male dancers only. The ballet is under the direction of Lev Nikolaevich Kulikov National Artist of Russia, the main ballet master, and maintains the heights of choreographic art with honour. The priority in its repertoire is taken by the military compositions: ""Matroskaya barynya"", ""Kazachiya cavalry plyaska"", ""Festive march"", ""Invitation to dance"" and others. The ballet performs a lot of Russian folk dances. The classical repertoire contains ""Poloveckie plyasky"" from the opera ""Prince Igor"" written by Alexander Borodin. This is from our dance classics, but we"
"Glazunov and Nikolai Tcherepnin, regisseurs Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Sanine and other ballet enthusiasts. As a friend and as a leading dancer, Nijinsky was part of the group. His sister wrote that he felt intimidated by the illustrious and aristocratic company. Fokine was asked to start rehearsals for the existing ""Le Pavillon d'Armide"" and for ""Les Sylphides"", an expanded version of his ""Chopiniana"". Fokine favoured expanding the existing ""Une Nuit d'Egypte"" for a ballet. Diaghilev accepted the idea of an Egyptian theme, but he required a comprehensive rewrite based on new music, by which Fokine created a new ballet ""Cléopâtre""."
"contains 6 movements, lasting for around 20 minutes: On the Dnieper On the Dnieper, Op. 51 (), also known by its French language title Sur le Borysthène, is Sergei Prokofiev's fourth ballet, written in 1930. Sergei Diaghilev, the impresario who had led Ballets Russes to distinguished success, died suddenly in 1929, hence ending Prokofiev's collaboration with the troupe. (""The Prodigal Son"" was the last such collaboration.) Seeing the success of the work, the Paris Opéra commissioned Prokofiev to write another ballet. Serge Lifar, formerly a close associate with Diaghilev, was responsible for creating the setting and choreography. However, he did"
"Adrian Piotrovsky Adrian Ivanovich Piotrovsky () ( – 21 November 1937) was a Russian dramaturge, responsible for creating the synopsis for Sergei Prokofiev's ballet ""Romeo and Juliet"". He was the ""acknowledged godfather"" of the Workers' Youth Theatre (Teatr Rabochey Molodyozhi: TRAM). The illegitimate son of the prominent Polish classicist Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński, Piotrovsky became Zielinski’s pupil and made scholarly translations of classical Greek plays. He was strongly influenced by Zielinski’s campaign to revive open-air Greek theatre, which would directly inspire Piotrovsky’s involvement in street theatre in the years following the October Revolution. Piotrovsky also became a pupil and disciple of"
"Hebrew Themes"", Op. 34 (1919). Later, Prokofiev incorporated the ballet music into two pieces: Quintet, Op. 39 (1924) and Divertimento, Op. 43 (1925–29). The ""Trapèze Ballet"", reconstructed in 2002, is in five parts and eight movements: The related Quintet is in six movements as follows: Notes Sources Trapeze (Prokofiev) Trapeze () is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev. Closely related to his Quintet, Op. 39 (1924), it contains eight movements (in five parts) and lasts 20–25 minutes. The complete ballet in eight movements was first performed in Gotha, a German town near Hanover, on 6 November 1925. In 1924, when Prokofiev"
"at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. The role of Armida was danced by Vera Karalli, the Vicomte de Beaugency by Mikhail Mordkin, and the Slave by Nijinsky. As the first ballet presented in Paris by Diaghilev, its success was due in part to its French theme. The 1909 season also included works based on Russian folklore which also met with public approval. Le Pavillon d'Armide Le Pavillon d'Armide is a ballet in one act and three scenes choreographed by Michel Fokine with music by Nikolai Tcherepnin to a libretto by Alexandre Benois. It was inspired by the novella ""Omphale"" by"
"Pointe. At the turn-of-the-Twentieth century, the Imperial Ballet began a project that notated much of its repertory in the Stepanov method of choreographic notation. Most of the notated choreographies were recorded while dancers were being taken through rehearsals. After the revolution of 1917, this collection of notation was taken out of Russia by the Imperial Ballet's former ""régisseur"" Nicholas Sergeyev, who utilized these documents to stage such works as ""The Nutcracker"", ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and ""Swan Lake"", as well as Marius Petipa's definitive versions of ""Giselle"" and of ""Coppélia"" for the Paris Opéra Ballet and the Vic-Wells Ballet of London"
"pleasure studying the work and had come away with adequate inspiration to do it justice. The choreographer was Marius Petipa, ballet master of the Imperial Ballet, who wrote a very detailed list of instructions as to the musical requirements. Tchaikovsky worked quickly on the new work at Frolovskoye; he began initial sketches in the winter of 1888 and began orchestration on the work on 30 May 1889. The ballet's focus was undeniably on the two main conflicting forces of good (the Lilac Fairy) and evil (Carabosse); each has a leitmotif representing them, which run through the entire ballet, serving as"
"The Little Humpbacked Horse (ballet) The Little Humpbacked Horse, or The Tsar Maiden (a.k.a. Konyok Gorbunok ili Tsar-Devitsa, or Le Petit cheval bossu, ou La Tsar-Demoiselle) is a ballet in four acts and eight scenes with apotheosis. The libretto is by Arthur Saint-Léon, based on the fairy tale ""The Little Humpbacked Horse"" by Pyotr Yershov. However, the choreographer substantially deviated from Yershov's original tale. The ballet shows how Ivan the fool, with the aid of a magical horse, defeats an evil Khan and wins the hand of the Tsar- Maiden. Eventually Ivan replaces the ineffective and incompetent Tsar and becomes"
"The Bolt (Shostakovich) The Bolt (), Op. 27 is a ballet music score written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931 to a libretto by . The full-length ballet in three acts and seven scenes was choreographed by Fyodor Lopukhov and premiered on 8 April 1931 at the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad. The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The lazy Lyonka hates work and together with a local priest and anti-Soviet plotter he plans to sabotage the machinery by putting a bolt in it. Their plan is foiled"