The Taming of the Shrew
Douban
驯悍记
opening date:
2017-07-26
genre:
舞剧
troupe:
蒙特卡洛芭蕾舞团 Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
theater:
David H. Koch Theater
director:
Igor Dronov
playwright:
Jean Rouaud
composer:
Dmitri Shostakovich
choreographer:
让-克里斯托弗·马约 Jean-Christophe Maillot
actor:
Ekaterina Krysanova
/
Vladislav Lantratov
/
Olga Smirnova
/
Semyon Chudin
/
Igor Tsvirko
/
Vyacheslav Lopatin
/
Yulia Grebenshchikova
/
Artemy Belyakov
/
Yanina Parienko
/
Georgy Gusev
overview
The Bolshoi is “at the top of its game” (Telegraph, U.K.) in acclaimed choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot’s effervescent production of The Taming of the Shrew. Set to a tapestry of Shostakovich’s most colorful music, Shakespeare’s famously chauvinistic comedy is transformed into a battle of wits between two equally feisty individuals: stormy individualist Katharina and smug bad boy Petruchio. With their signature bravura, the Bolshoi’s incomparable dancers bring to hilarious life all of the fawning, preening, and hypocrisy that well-born Kate finds so tiresome—and that ultimately makes the rough-edged outsider Petruchio seem so appealing to her.