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Le Corsaire
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… 显示更多 Le Corsaire A three act ballet based on Lord Byron's poem 'The Corsair'. Its very complicated plot centres on a Greek girl, Medora, sold into slavery; she is miraculously saved by the pirate Conrad, who becomes her lover. They have to face almost insuperable hardship, culmnating in the final shipwreck. (H.Koegler, op. cit. pp.104-5)
Le Corsaire

细节
Le Corsaire
Production: Première - November 3rd, 1962, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London,
Music: Riccardo Drigo, orchestrated by John Lanchberry
Choreography: Marius Petipa/Vakhtang Chabukiani and Rudolph Nureyev
Design: André Levasseur
Character: Medora

The main body of a headdress, the imitation pearl and coloured rhinestone tiara, the circular cluster front with central turquoise blue faceted rhinestone and an imitation pearl twin row surround, set with a large clear faceted rhinestone above a turquoise faceted rhinestone drop beneath, with amber, turquoise and clear faceted rhinestones scrolls each side (lacks intregal hat); and another headdress, the imitation pearl tiara of cluster and scroll design decorated with aquamarine rhinestones, the centre covered with black net embroidered with matching rhinestones and sequins, the net with matching veil attached to one side (both headdresses probably lacking some decorative details); and a photograph of Fonteyn in costume -- 10¼x7in. (26x17.7cm.)
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出版
BLAND, Alexander Observer of the Dance 1958-1982, London: Dance Books Ltd. 1985, pp.49-50
Nureyev Auction Catalogue, Christie's, Park Avenue, New York, January 12th-13th, 1995, p.28
BLAND, Alexander Fonteyn and Nureyev, London: Orbis Publishing, 1979, pp.96-101 (illus.)
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拍品专文

Fonteyn and Nureyev's London début as Conrad and Medora caused a sensation. Alexander Bland wrote of the London première in The Observer, ..The curtain came down at Covent Garden last night to cheers, shouts and flying carnations...Fonteyn....sparkled and spun and dipped like a filly loosed out to grass... Nureyev, lithe and hungry looking...stunned the audience with what was probably the finest piece of male dancing seen on the Covent Garden stage in this generation. Leaping and turning like a salmon, soft as a panther, proud and cruel, never for a second relaxing his classical control - this was a spectacle which made one believe (the comparison is inevitable) those legends of Nijinsky...