Natalia Bessmertnova
Natalya Igorevna Bessmertnowa (Russian Наталья Игоревна Бессмертнова, scientific transliteration Natal'ja Igorevna Bessmertnova; born July 19, 1941 in Moscow, † February 19, 2008 ibid ) was a Soviet prima ballerina at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Biography
From 1953 to 1961 she was trained in ballet school of the Bolshoi Theatre. Their trainers were Marija Koschuchowa, Sofija Golowkina and Marina Semenova. During their training, they danced first time in 1958 on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. 1961 ended Bessmertnowa training as the first student in the history of the theater with a grade of A on the final exam. From 1961 to 1988 she was the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi ballet. After that she worked as an instructor in the theater until 1995.
Bessmertnowa was with the former director of the theater, Yuri Grigorovich married. Like her husband, she left the Bolshoi in 1995 in the dispute over the future style after the end of the Soviet era. You can view " the death of this precious resource of Russian Art" not with, she said at the time.
Roles (selection)
- Giselle in Leonid Lawrowskis staging of Giselle (1963 ); Movie 1974
- Juliet in Leonid Lawrowskis staging of Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev; TV recording 1976
- Phrygia in Grigorovich's staging of Aram Khachaturian's Spartacus; TV recording 1984
- Anastasia in Grigorovich's staging of Sergei Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible by film music ( 1975); TV recording 1991
- Julia in Grigorovich's staging of Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev (1979); TV recording 1989
- Odette / Odile in Swan Lake staged by Grigorovich; TV recording 1984
- Rita in Grigorovich's staging of The Golden Age of Dmitri Shostakovich (1982 )
- Raymonda in Grigorovich's staging of Raymonda by Alexander Glazunov (1984); TV recording 1990
- Giselle in Grigorovich's staging of Giselle (1990); TV recording 1990