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Anna Karenina - A Ballet By John Neumeier

Anna Laudere, Edvin Revazov, Ivan Urban, Aleix Martinez, Emilie Mazon, Hamburg Ballet, Philharmonis

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Format: 2DVD

Cat No: 763108

Release Date:  26 May 2023

Label:  C Major - Dvd / C Major Entertainment

Packaging Type:  DVD Case

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  814337016418

Genres:  Classical  Music Video  

Composer/Series:  Anna Karenina - A Ballet by John Neumeier

Release Date:  26 May 2023

Label:  C Major - Dvd / C Major Entertainment

Packaging Type:  Blu-Ray Packaging

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  814337016074

Genres:  Classical  Music Video  

Composer/Series:  Anna Karenina - A Ballet by John Neumeier

  • Description

    Thomas Mann once named Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "the greatest social novel of world literature." When reading the novel, John Neumeier was deeply fascinated by Tolstoy's work: not only by the main characters and the plot, but also by the extraordinary variety of thematic connections. It is a story of three families. John Neumeier states: "Tolstoy himself wrote and published 'Anna Karenina' as a serial story over a number of years. The feeling in the novel of a developing contemporary narrative - similar to a television series of today - is underlined by the fact that the novel does not end with the death of the title character. My challenge was therefore to give true life and relevance to the story by selecting key emotional situations and essential characters to fit within the framework of an evening-long ballet."

    Description

    Thomas Mann once named Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "the greatest social novel of world literature." When reading the novel, John Neumeier was deeply fascinated by Tolstoy's work: not only by the main characters and the plot, but also by the extraordinary variety of thematic connections. It is a story of three families. John Neumeier states: "Tolstoy himself wrote and published 'Anna Karenina' as a serial story over a number of years. The feeling in the novel of a developing contemporary narrative - similar to a television series of today - is underlined by the fact that the novel does not end with the death of the title character. My challenge was therefore to give true life and relevance to the story by selecting key emotional situations and essential characters to fit within the framework of an evening-long ballet."