The New York Times: All of this is delightful for balletomanes, who can revel in Ratmansky’s ingenious re-creation of these miniature ballets and the studio scenes that seem lifted straight from a Degas painting.
Music Leonid Desyatnikov
Choreography Alexei Ratmansky
Dramaturgy consultant Guillaume Gallienne
With the Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet
Lucien, a young provincial and budding composer, sets to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. Quickly, his success blinds him and he betrays his friends and his love ...
Based on French writer Honoré de Balzac’s novel, Lost Illusions is a new ballet, created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgy reviewed by French actor, writer and director Guillaume Gallienne. This stylized adaptation of the novel for the stage, blends thwarted love, ambition and disillusionment with 19th century Paris as a backdrop.
Distributor:
Pathé Live
Director:
Aleksei Ratmanski
