Maya Plisetskaya
Acting
Biography
Maya Plisetskaya was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960 she became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.
Born: November 20, 1925
Place of Birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Known For
Le Grand Échiquier
M.K.C. Zodiakas
The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...
Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. A Bolshoi Ballet adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya, who also took on the titular role.
New Year's Abduction
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.
Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Tchaikovsky
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
Carmen Suite
The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in love with her and whom Carmen leaves for the young Torero.
Новогодний календарь
New Year's TV show with the participation of popular Soviet entertainers.
Swan Lake
Film-ballet written by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The authors of the movie tell the story of the ballet's creation, as well as about various stage productions with the participation of outstanding performers of the role of Odette-Odile. The movie includes fragments of the ballet staged by choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
Filmography
as Self
as Self
as Муза
as Carmen
as Anna Karenina
as Self
as Desire
as princess Betsy
as Self
as Queen Maiden
as Odette / Odile