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compilations or telecasts
starring various artists:

The Astonishing Moiseyev
Dance Co., Vol 1 & 2

Moiseyev: His World of Dance

Vincente Fernández Flamenco Co.
From Granada to Jerez

Art of the Pas de Deux
 all-star compliation
Art of the Pas de Deux, Vol. 2
all-star compilation
Art of the Pas de Deux, Vol. 3
all-star compilation

Pas de Deux
McBride, Olsen, others

Great Stars of Russian Ballet, Vol 1 & 2

Great Stars of Russian Ballet, Vol. 3 & 4

Stars of the Russian Ballet
Ulanova, Plisetskaya,
Sergeyev, Zhdanov

Nina Ananiashvili
& Int'l Stars, Vol. 1

Nina AnaniashviliI
& Int'l Stars, Vol. 2

compilations
& documentary
- alphabetically by artist:

Alonso, Alicia
Prima Ballerina Assoluta

Bruhn, Erik
Bell Telephone Hour

Bujones, Fernando
with Cynthia Gregory, Live

Chauviré, Yvette
France's Ballerina Assoluta

d’Amboise, Jacques
Portrait of a Great
American Dancer

Fracci, Carla
An Evening with

Gregory, Cynthia
with Fernando Bujones, Live

Limón, José
Three Modern Ballets

Loudières, Monique
Comme les Oiseaux - A Portrait

Malakhov, Vladimir
True Prince

Maximova, Ekaterina
Katia & Volodia

Nureyev, Rudolph
Bell Telephone Hour

Plisetskaya, Maya
Plisetskaya Dances
with Vasiliev,
Begak, Liepa
Swan Lake
with Bogatirev
The Seagull
with Bogatirev
A Portrait

Tallchief, Maria
Art of

Vasiliev, Vladimir
Katia & Volodia

Verdy, Violette
Violette & Mr. B.
The Artist Teacher

Alphabetically by Ballet

Anna Karenina
Plisetskaya, Godunov
Anna Karenina
Plisetskaya, Petukhov,

Anyuta
Maximova, Vasiliev

Le Baiser de la Fée
Yatsenko, Malakhov

Carmen Suite Ballet
Plisetskaya, Fadeyechv,
Radchenko

Checkmate
Barbieri, Ashmole, Bintley,
others

Cinderella
Fonteyn, Somes,
Ashton, MacMillan

Don Quixote
Ananiashvili, Fadeyechev
Don Quixote
Pavlova, Gordeev. others

Enchantress, The
Zyryanova, Stepanov, Korzhakova,
Valyuta

Excelsior
Fracci, Bortoluzzi, Razzi, Telloli

Gaîté Parisienne
Danilova, Franklin, Danielian

Gayne
Tuisova, Rumyantsev

Giselle
Kain, Augystyn
Giselle
Nureyev, Fracci
Giselle
Alonso, Vasiliev

Little Humpbacked Horse, The
Plisetskaya, Vasiliev

Lieutenant Kijé
Vasiliev, Struchkova

Marco Spada
Nureyev, Thesmar

Masquerade
Dolgushin, Smirnova, others

Mediterranea
Murro, Sutera, Carbone

Petrushka
Semenyaka, Elagin

Rakes Progress
Morse, Katrak, Reeder, others

Raymonda
Kolpakova, Berezhnoi

Rite of Spring
Galimullin, Tsoi

Romeo and Juliet
Maximova, Vasiliev
Romeo and Juliet
Ulanova, Zhdanov

Seagull
Plisetkskaya, Bogatirev

Sleeping Beauty
Nureyev, Tennant

Sleeping Beauty
Fonteyn, Somes, Ashton

Spartacus
Vasiliev, Bessmertnova, Liepa
Spartacus
Vasiliev, Maximova, Liepa

Stone Flower
Maximova, Vasiliev

Swan Lake
Ananiashvili, Fadeyechev
Swan Lake
Plisetskaya, Fadeyechev
Swan Lake
Plisetskaya, Bogatirev

Massine's Symphonie Fantastique
starring:
Erik Bruhn, Toni Lander,
and Stanley Williams
Royal Danish Ballet, 1948

Trapeze / Fragments of a Biography
Maximova, Vasiliev, Liepa,
Timofeyeva, Aleksei Fadeyechev,
and others.

The Enchantress (Tchaikovsky)
VAI DVD 4528 $39.95

A rarity among Tchaikovsky’s operas, The Enchantress (also known as The Sorceress) is presented here in a live performance by the esteemed Nizhegorodsky State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet; Pavel Reznikov, conductor (Moscow, 1984). Sung in Russian; subtitles in English, French, and Russian, Color, 4:3, 156 min., All regions.

Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress was composed during a happily reclusive period in the composer’s life. Living in a country house in Maidanovo, he described himself as “contented, cheerful, and quiet.” In the spring of 1885, Tchaikovsky discovered Shpazhinsky’s play The Enchantress, which greatly attracted him as an operatic subject, affording him the chance to express dramatically a long-cherished phrase in Goethe’s Faust, “Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan” [the eternal-feminine draws us upwards]. Indeed, his characterization of the good-hearted and passionate inn-keeper Nastasya (affectionately called “Kuma” – literally, “godmother” – by her admirers, and branded an “enchantress” by her enemies) is one of his most fascinating operatic portraits. This 1984 production, performed by an excellent cast fully committed to the work, makes a strong case for The Enchantress as an unjustly neglected masterpiece.

The Enchantress
Opera in Four Acts
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchiakovsky
Original libretto by Ippolit Shpazhinsky
Revised libretto by Sergey Gorodetsky

Cast:
Nastasya (“Kuma”), keeper of a wayside inn: Larissa Zyryanova
Prince Nikita Kurlyatev, the Grand Prince’s deputy: Vladimir Stepanov
Princess Yevpraksiya Romanovna, his wife: Lyudmila Korzhakova
Prince Yuriy, their son: Vadim Valyuta
Mamirov, an old deacon: Alexander Pravilov
Nenila, his sister, a lady-in-waiting to the princess: A. Perfilova
Ivan Zhuran, valet of Prince Yuriy: E. Sedov
Foka, Nastasya’s uncle: Dimitri Sukhanov
Polya, Nastasya’s friend: L. Lebedovskaya
Payisy, a vagabond in the guise of a monk: N. Bogutsky
Balakin, a guest from Nizhniy-Novgorod: A. Burlatsky
Potap, a merchant guest: M. Sanotsky
Lukash, a merchant guest: Mikhail Larin
Kichiga, a pugilist: A. Perfilov

Nizhegorodsky State Academic Theatre
of Opera and Ballet

Pavel Reznikov, conductor
Live Performance / Moscow, 1984