by Nathan Southern
synopsis
The Bolshoi Ballet mounts this 1979 production of Rodion Shchedrin's Anna Karenina, which Shchedrin adapted, in turn, from the 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy. It co-stars Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov, with choreography by Plisetskaya.
characteristics
- Officer
- Obsession
- Peasant
- Russian [nationality]
- Star-crossed-lovers
- Infidelity
- Ill-fated
- Adultery
- Ballerina
- Ballet-dance
- Extramarital-affair
- Adulterer
