Esmeralda / St. Petersburg Ballet & Symphony Orchestra / Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre / Music by Cesare Pugni / Libretto Jules PerrotRomantic ballet base on the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo / DVD 2005

UPC 8712177047963

IMM 960006

REGION 0 NTSC DVD (ALL REGIONS)

MADE IN THE NETHERLANDS

AUDIO: Russian 2.0, Russian 5.1

SUBTITLES: English, French, German

Total Runtime: 60 MINUTES

English Summary:

Cesare Pugni composed the score for the ballet Esmerelda in 1844; it recounts the tale of the eponymous title character, an ill-fated gypsy dancer who engages in a scandalous affair with the hunchback bellringer Quasimodo) -- and who appeared at the center of Victor Hugo's seminal 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Russian stage director Nikolai Boyarchikov mounted a production of this work with the Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and The Ballet Company of St. Petersburg; it arrives on video in the home release Esmerelda. Elvira Khabibullina performs the title role, Andrei Bregvadze appears as Quasimodo, and Aleksei Konstantinov is Claude Frollo, the priest.

Cast:

St. Petersburg Ballet & Symphony Orchestra 

Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre