The Valencian Widow on the “Small Screen”: Negotiating the Russian lopean canon in the late twentieth century

• Autores: Veronika Ryjik
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 189-202
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The televised ballet Valensianskaya vdova [The Valencian Widow], set to the music of the renowned Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian and produced by the Moscow Operetta Theater, was first broadcast on Soviet state television on November 4, 1986. The inclusion of this production in Soviet TV programing is by no means surprising. During the five decades between the first Russian performance of La viuda valenciana [The Valencian Widow] (1939) and the release of the TV ballet, Lope de Vega’s plays gained extraordinary acclaim among Russian viewers. Thanks to a series of highly successful performances in 1930s Moscow and Leningrad, there was...