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ballet The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart, music by Beethoven With the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and the Tokyo Ballet

With the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and the Tokyo Ballet

The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart, music by Beethoven With the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and the Tokyo Ballet

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The first-ever recording on film of Maurice Béjart's Ninth Symphony! Fifty years after its premiere, the Tokyo Ballet and Béjart Ballet Lausanne present Maurice Béjart’s groundbreaking choreography to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Tokyo's NHK Hall. With nearly 200 artists on one stage, Beethoven’s score was performed by the Ritsuyu-kai Choir, the soloists Kristin Lewis, Mihoko Fujimura, Kei Fukui, and Alexander Vinogradov, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta.

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Cast

  • Maurice Béjart | Choreographer
  • Gil Roman | Narrator, Artistic director
  • Joëlle Roustan | Stage sets and costumes
  • Roger Bernard | Lighting, Stage sets and costumes
  • Henri Davila | Stage sets and costumes
  • Dominique Roman | Lighting
  • Tom Skelton | Lighting
  • Ritsuyu-kai Choir
  • Fumiaki Kuriyama | Chorus master

Program

  • Ludwig van Beethoven / Maurice Béjart, The Ninth Symphony
    • Prologue
    • Allegro ma non troppo - Un poco maestoso
    • Molto vivace - Presto
    • Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato
    • Finale

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Mari Inamasu
  • Venue: NHK Hall (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Production date: 2015
  • Duration: 1 h 23 min
  • Production: © EuroArts
  • Available version(s): FR
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