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Article: VIENNA STATE OPERA BALLET.(Review)
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- June 1, 1999
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VIENNA STATE OPERA BALLET STATE OPERA HOUSE MARCH 11, 1999
At thirty-one, Vladimir Malakhov, a Ukrainian with an Austrian passport, has joined the major league of Russian ballet producers in the West. At the Vienna State Opera, which already has Rudolf Nureyev's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, and Raymonda plus Yuri Grigorovich's Nutcracker in its repertory, Malakhov presented his first production ever--La Bayadere. Its German title, Die Bajadere refers to Goethe's poem "Der Gott und die Bajadere" as its original source of inspiration. With the exception of one notorious hater of classical ballet, the production was a roaring success with local critics ...