June 17, 2010
La Dame aux Camelias
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2010 Maki Asami, the doyenne of Japanese ballet, closes out the 2009/2010 season—and her reign as Artistic Director of the New National Theatre Ballet—with La Dame aux Camelias. Based on the same Alexandre Dumas novel as Verdi’s opera La Traviata and set to music by Hector Berlioz, the piece […]
By Metropolis
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2010
© Hidemi Seto
Maki Asami, the doyenne of Japanese ballet, closes out the 2009/2010 season—and her reign as Artistic Director of the New National Theatre Ballet—with La Dame aux Camelias. Based on the same Alexandre Dumas novel as Verdi’s opera La Traviata and set to music by Hector Berlioz, the piece is one of the most famous tragic romances in the classical music repertoire. Asami created the current version in 2007 to celebrate the NNTT’s first decade, and it won a standing ovation in front of demanding ballet aficionados at Moscow’s Bolshoi last year. Guest dancers include the Bolshoi’s Svetlana Zakharova and the Marinsky’s Denis Matvienko, who on three of the six nights play the doomed courtesan Marguerite and her lover Armand, respectively.
La Dame Aux Camélias
Classic ballet performed by the New National Theatre Ballet Company, with choreography by the renowned Maki Asami. June 29-July 4, various times, ¥1,500-¥12,600. For Middle School kids: June 30, 2pm, ¥1,500-¥4,200. New National Theatre, Hatsudai. Tel: 03-5352-9999.
