Paquita (agnes letestu-jose martinez, paris opera ballet, 2003)
Date: 30 Dec 2008, 12:39
Paquita (Agnes Letestu-Jose Martinez, Paris Opera Ballet, 2003) AVI | 730.9 MB | Audio: 44,1 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 1 ch, 192.00 kbps avg | Video: 720x576, 25 fps, DivX, 792.37 kbit/s |Length: 1h 42m 47s The melodies are tuneful and immediately forgettable, lots of accented beats, charm frothing from the orchestra pit like a bubble bath. The story is preposterous nonsense, but the final-act wedding festivities make for a happy ending with lots of anything-you-can-dance-I-can-dance-better splash and dash. Much of Marius Petipa’s trademark choreography is included, the fouettés ad infinitum, so the viewer is assured of a visual spectacle. The Paris Opera Ballet has not only rescued this work from near extinction, but has given it a first-class production.
