Died Maya Plisetskaya – BBC

Munich on 90 th year of life died Maya Plisetskaya, the great Russian ballerina.

The name Maya Plisetskaya became legendary in his lifetime. For the first time at the Bolshoi Theatre she appeared in the mid-40s, when still at the zenith of fame were Galina Ulanova and Marina Semenova.

Plisetskaya once occupied a place of honor among the first major Soviet Etoile scene.

It seems that she did not have a period of apprenticeship. She came on the scene and almost immediately was crowned with laurels and every imaginable noisy recognition.

Plisetskaya was not only one of the brightest stars of Soviet ballet, but one of the most renowned. By the end of the career she has collected all the ballet prizes and all state regalia: People’s Artist of USSR, laureate of the Lenin Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, and so on and so forth.

But there was another tragic side of the biography of Maya Plisetskaya.

In 1938, he was arrested and then shot her father, a prominent Soviet handyman, and her mother, silent film actress Rachel Messerer was convicted and sent to the camp, and then into exile. A trip to the exiled mother Chekment city – one of the eloquent Maya Plesetsk memories of her acclaimed autobiography.

With the ease of owning a classic repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater, and having the success that was not equal, Plisetskaya whole life looking for new forms and new roles. Odette-Odile, Aurora, Raymond and other textbook in her party were eventually boring.

She built her repertoire, which at the Bolshoi Theater to it, it seems, no one could afford.

Her husband, composer Rodion Shchedrin, Plisetskaya wrote specifically for ballet based on “Anna Karenina,” “The Seagull,” “The Lady with the Dog”, which for many years took pride of place in the Moscow poster.

The outstanding achievement Plisetskaya was the role of Carmen in again for her written Shchedrin and staged by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso’s ballet “Carmen Suite” based on Bizet’s opera.

A special page in the history of modern culture – Maya Plisetskaya cooperation with the French choreographer Maurice Bejart. Together they made such vivid performances as “Isadora,” “Spectre de la Rose,” “Ave Maya”.

Plisetskaya dedicated poems Andrei Voznesensky, Sergei Paradjanov immortalized its image in his collages, the great French fashion designer Pierre Cardin made the costumes for her performances and dedicated to her some of his collections.

Maya Plisetskaya performed in large batches for about 30 years longer than is customary in ballet. And the audience, of course, would have been glad to see her on stage ever. Fatal heart attack caught Plisetskaya in preparation for the anniversary celebrations, to be held in Moscow in late fall of this year.