Word: fonteyns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about that point, one night last week, Sadler's Wells Star Margot Fonteyn ceased to be a ballerina and became the bird she intended to portray. The ballet: Firebird, dreamed up in 1910 for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by the late, style-making Choreographer Michel Fokine and style-shaking Composer Igor Stravinsky...
...real value lay in the steely performance of Margot Fonteyn, whose Firebird was both exciting and chilling. Usually noted for her lyrical grace, Fonteyn this time turned most of the role into a furious, possessed, almost diabolic whirl...
...usual, the epitome of that world was Margot Fonteyn, who again opened the U.S. tour with Sleeping Beauty. She was nimble and fleet, as a princess should be, poised and incredibly effortless as she accepted her suitors' greetings in the arduous Rose adagio, where even the most accomplished technician is apt to teeter unhappily as she stands stock-still on one pointe and accepts a rose from four courtiers, one after the other...
...Ballets. Backing up Ballerina Fonteyn is an impressive company. Men are a notorious Sadler's Wells' weakness, but Michael Somes, Fonteyn's self-effacing partner, has developed into a fine danseur noble. And Brian Shaw, with his soaring leaps and flickering feet, is a dancer who can hold his own in any company. Some of the most exciting dancing is provided by the company's newest ballerina, leggy young (22) Svetlana Beriosova. She is less technically accomplished than some of the older soloists, but last week, dancing Fonteyn's role of Princess Aurora for only...
...range from Puccini's Madame Butterfly through a new English version of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin to world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India, and The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton, will be the first full-length movie to be presented on TV before being released to movie theaters...