Blazis Carlo Biography

For reading: 7 Minrubrika: the music of the background [edit] the idea of ​​creating a ballet according to the legend of Dr. Faust, who sold his own soul, inspired many choreographers. The outstanding master of the romantic ballet Jules Perrault did not disregard this topic. Andrei Mayir in his book Faustlibretti claims that when he arrived in Paris in the year, Jules Perrault saw the first Faust there.

In the year he was invited to London to dance in the title role in Adan's ballet "Faust"; The statements of Jules Perrault against this libretto are known. Obviously, the idea of ​​creating ballet in its own plot took possession of it even then, but moved away due to employment in other works. After the premiere of the Giselle ballet on June 28, Jules Perrault was officially appointed to the post of choreographer at the London Royal Theater.

However, the contracts, as a rule, were not long, and in the year J. Perro left the post in the London Theater. And then he went to Milan, where in the famous Musical Theater, La Scala set the ballet specifically for Fanny Elsler. It was Faust ballet. The plot [edit] Dr. Faust teaches students in his laboratory. He signs the old books, and one of them fell from the shelf, this is formulas for causing spirits.

As soon as Faust begins to read these spells, one of the retort bursts, and Mephistofel comes out of it in a hellish suit. Immediately, the student of Faust Wagner falls through unknown where, and Mephistopheles takes his place. So the doctor's misadventures begin. Mephistopheles promises Faust Treasures and great successes, and this is all because after death the doctor will serve him, Mephistopher, and immediately offers visions - in them the false Margarita with a crowd of perfumes forces the doctor forces a magical drink, turning him from an old man into a young man.

And Faust signs a contract with hellish forces. And now - the village, where at the festivities you need to choose the most beautiful girl, claims to this title, but it gets Margarita - not the false that was in visions, but a beautiful and sweet village girl. At the same time, Valentine is returning from the army - Margarita’s groom so according to the Libretto scenario!

Margarita loves her fiancé, but heavy dark forces rule over her, forcing Faust to love. Seven soloists - seven mortal sins - perform variations: laziness persuades to throw a spinning wheel, pride and envy seduce jewelry, anger forces to discard jewelry, stinginess advises them to choose, gluttony offers many fruits from the garden, passion whispers temptations, pointing to Faust.

And so that no one prevents her from being with a new lover, Margarita gives the poison of her mother Berte, and Faust kills Valentine ... From all these horrors, poor Margarita falls into madness. Faust sees in his visions the death of Margarita on a scaffold. He reproaches Mephistopheles, but he only laughs and shows the contract. Starting somewhere from a distance, the light is approaching, and having approached completely, sneaks up to the contract-and burns it ...

Thus, the “Heavenly Fire” itself burned this diabolical contract. And at the same moment all the ghosts fail, and Margarita and Faust are connected in the sky. The further life of the ballet [edit] ballet "Faust" entered the repertoire of the St. Petersburg Imperial troupe for several years; The party of Margarita was later performed by Nadezhda Bogdanov, in the season - gg.

At one of the performances in the year when A. Ferraris performed in the party of Margarita, a tragedy occurred: the decoration fell on the assistant to the ballet director Ivan Marseille, I. Marseel turned out to be a fracture of the leg and his artistic career ended; He was completely transferred to the directorial work. Moscow version of Carlo Blazisis to P. Lebedev - Margarita.

She was carried out by the choreographer Carlo Blazis, and this was not his first appeal to the topic of Dr. Faust: Blazis made an attempt to put a ballet in the plot of Faust in the year, and in the year, he had already set the ballet on the same plot - but completely different, the music was composed by the composers of Viviani, J. Bayetti, F. Blazis Father Carlo Blazis and R.

Mandachini, “Velki Theater”, Warsaw; Now he resumed not his past production, but Jules Perrault's choreography; Artists A. Bredov, P. Isakov, I. Kukanov, I. Shangin and F. Waltz, conductor P. Lusin; Among the performers: Margarita - P. Lebedeva, Faust - S. Sokolov, Mephistopheles - F. Reinshausen, Valentin - D. Kuznetsov, burgomaster - Wilhelm Wanner; I. performed in dance scenes I.

Sketch of the scenery. The artist Pavel Isakov, however, during the transfer of choreography, Jules Perrault Carlo Blazis, who was jealous of the very idea of ​​embodiment of the tragedy on the ballet stage, also introduced his understanding of the images of heroes. Carlo Blazis belonged to the representatives of the romantic genre, who had also grown up in the classicist direction classicism in art - this is the prevalence of intelligence and knowledge, romanticism - the prevalence of feelings and even sensations.

In his interpretation, the ballet received a poetic and philosophical direction-unlike the production of Jules Perrault himself, where the main place was given to poetry and hill.Blazis deprived his “Faust” of a romantic hill, filling up the missing, in his opinion, gaps of ordinary triviality, and in this staging the dance began to carry auxiliary-imbaling function.

In the ballet version of the Perrot Faust, Margarita's love saves. The romantic interpretation of the Perrault affirmed the power of love. The romantic poetics of the Perrault responded to the spirit of the times, it was attracted by fate marked with rock, hearts tormented by frantic passions. The classic model of Blazis claimed the victory of the human mind over feelings.

It turned out an amazing thing: Jules’s ballet in the interpretation of Carlo Blazis turned out to be completely different, but at the same time enjoyed no less success than the St. Petersburg production of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater himself again resumed this ballet in the interpretation of Carlo Blazis; conductor S. Ryabov; Margarita - A. The latest renewal of the year of Jules Perrault - in the editorial office as it was shown at the Bolshoi Stone Theater in St.

Petersburg - resumed the choreographer of the imperial M. Petip, she also took place on the same stage of the Bolshoi Stone theater; Artists P. Isakov, F. Serkov, A. Roller, G. Wagner and F. Shenyan; The main part of Margarita was performed by the wife of the choreographer M. Petipa, Mephistopheles - T. Stukolkin, one of the women's parties was performed by the world star in Russia Gullymin Salvioni.

In the year - another renewal at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater; Margarita - P. in which version this Moscow production took place - in the version of Jules Perrault or Carlo Blazis, is unknown. Bogdanov; Margarita - Carlotta Brianz. Jules Perrault did not return more to the ballet in choreography, giving way to the next, more new, developments of the same immortal plot.