Blame Amazon for mixing reviews from 2 different versions of this ballet!!!!

ONE OF THE BEST, IF NOT THE BEST | Sleeping Beauty [VHS]

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	• Sleeping Beauty [VHS] Kultur Video, 1996 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not a bad buy for the price

The only thing that really bothered me is the computer graphics that that got put in at one point. It's only for a few minutes but it is still enough to annoy. I still consider it a good buy compared to the price of an actuall ballet ticket and you can watch this one anytime and as often as you please.

Blame Amazon for mixing reviews from 2 different versions of this ballet!!!!

Unfortunately, Amazon has mixed reviews from 2 different versions of this ballet, the tape with Asylmuratova and Zaklinsky recorded in 1996 and the DVD with Larisa Lezhnina and Farukh Ruzimatov on the Canadian tour in 1989. Two completely different versions. Yet Amazon shows the same reviews under both. No wonder the reviews are inconsistent. People are talking about 2 completely different performances with different casts!!!!!!!!!!!! I called Amazon to try to correct this and could not find anyone who could or would make the necessary corrections.

I'll review the DVD with Larisa Lezhnina and Farukh Rusimatov. A few things to like. Larisa is very young, animated, attractive, and a good and energetic dancer. Rusimatov doesn't work for me. Too diminuitive, without the animation or energy to make him believable as the prince. Also looks too old for Larisa. Handling of Carabosse is good as she/he is disguised as a peasant, handing over the needle in a bouquet of flowers to deceive the princess. But the costumes and hair pieces look like they sat around in a used costume shop for 20 years before being dragged out for the road tour. The sets are also old, dark, cheap looking. Just lacks magic. Took my version and threw it in the trash.

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ONE OF THE BEST, IF NOT THE BEST

I MADE A VIDEO TAPE RECORDING OF THIS WHEN BROADCAST ON THE THEN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE CHANNEL NOW UNFORTUNATELY CEASED SINCE SKY GAVE IT THE KISS OF DEATH AS THEY HAVE WITH ARTSWORLD.I HAVE TRANSFERRED IT TO DVD
SO AS TO PRESERVE IT.I ESPECIALLY EJOYED YULIA MAKHALIA AS THE LILAC FAIRY
ITS A PITY THERE ARE NOT MORE DVDS WITH HER AVAILABLE

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Asylmuratova **********

I'm watching this video now and Asylmuratova is in it. It's her pictured on the Kultur box. Ivy Lin is right (God bless her little helpful self) and her review was great and I purchased it. If not for watching it right now myself, I would be dancing across the room in happiness. It's great. Other reviews said it was someone else dancing instead of Asylmuratova and even the above Amazon review states someone else in it.They are incorrect. Thanks Ivy Lin you're the best.

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It may be a truism to say that Russians interpret Russian music best, but based on this stunning Kirov Ballet performance taped during its 1989 Canadian tour, it's excitingly and exhilaratingly accurate. Tchaikovsky's ballet is brought to vividly atmospheric life by the company who may dance him better than any other company, even the rival Bolshoi, especially in this production by master Kirov choreographer Marius Petipa (revised by his successor, Konstantin Sergeyev).

From the principal dancers (Larissa Lezhnina is simply fabulous as Princess Aurora, and her partner, Farukh Ruzimatov, is her equal as Prince Désiré) to the last member of the ensemble, the grace and mastery of this world-class company is in evidence from the opening Marche to the closing duet. Simon Virsaladze's tastefully opulent sets and costumes contribute strongly, as does Viktor Fedotov's conducting and the Kirov Orchestra's playing of one of ballet's most attractive scores. --Kevin Filipski

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