Violetta Elvin

Acting

Biography

Violetta Elvin (née Prokhorova; 1923–2021) was a Russian prima ballerina and actress best known for her work in the United Kingdom.

Born: November 3, 1923

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Known For

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The Queen of Spades

A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.

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Twice Upon a Time

A pair of twin girls are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same Summer camp, and while there they start to hatch a plot to get back together.

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Melba

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

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Les Sylphides

This ballet is choreographer Michel Fokine's new reading of his ballet created a few years before, Chopiniana, where he pays a tribute to the old days romantic ballets. The work does not follow a logical narrative progression, as Karsavina says in the introduction, it is a "Romantic reverie." The unique male dancer (John Field in this version) embodies a Poet. The corps de ballet and the three women soloists Alice Markova, Violetta Elvin and Svetlana Beriosova are intimately linked to the Russian Ballet and to Russia as a whole.

Filmography

2011

Les Sylphides

as Self (archive footage)

1953

Melba

as Prima Ballerina

1953

Twice Upon a Time

as Florence la Riche

1949

The Queen of Spades

as Gypsy Dancer