今年の夏の遠征は、7月上旬の約一週間。ハンブルクとミュンヘンで9公演観てきました。全体的に音楽色の強い遠征だったな。ぼちぼちと観たものの感想を残しておこうと思います。

まずは、一番最後のニジンスキー・ガラから。

18:00に開演、30分の休憩×2回をはさみつつ終演が23:40頃と、ワーグナーオペラ並の5.5時間という長大な公演でした。通常のニジンスキーガラと比較しても、ゲストも多かったです。感想は3回に分けることにします。まずは、プログラムと出演者のみ（それだけでも長い・・・）。

ニジンスキーガラ2018/7/8日 18:00- ハンブルク州立歌劇場

第44回ニジンスキー・ガラ
マリウス・プティパとレナード・バーンスタインに捧ぐ

◆FIRST PART

Excerpt from "On the Town"
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Choreography: John Neumeier
Set and Costumes: Zack Brown – utilizing the New York photographs of Reinhart Wolf
Alexandr Trusch and the School of the Hamburg Ballet

Pas de quatre from "Le Réveil de Flore"
Music: Riccardo Drigo
Choreography: Marius Petipa, staged by Yuri Burlaka after Ivan Khlustin (2014)
Costumes: Vladimir Ponomarev
Daria Ionova, Anastasiia Nuikina, Mariia Khoreva, Maria Bulanova
(Graduates of the Vaganova Ballet Academy)
(Rector: Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Teacher: Liudmila Kovalyova)

Excerpt from "The Sleeping Beauty" – Grand Pas de deux
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa, Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction for the American Ballet Theatre (2015)
Tiler Peck　(New York City Ballet)
Herman Cornejo (American Ballet Theatre)

Excerpt from "The Sleeping Beauty" – Grand Pas de deux
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Rudolf Noureev after Marius Petipa
Jillian Vanstone, Francesco Gabriele Frola
(The National Ballet of Canada)

Excerpt from "Songfest"
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Choreography: John Neumeier
"Music I heard with You"
Xue Lin
"Zizi's Lament"
Konstantin Tselikov
"To What You Said"
Carsten Jung, Ivan Urban

Excerpt from "The Pharaoh's Daughter"
Music: Cesare Pugni
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Olga Smirnova, Artem Ovcharenko
(Bolshoi Ballet)

Excerpt from "Swan Lake" – 2nd act pas de deux
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Lev Ivanov / Marius Petipa
Anna Laudere, Edvin Revazov

Excerpt from "Bernstein Dances" – Lonely Town
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Choreography: John Neumeier
Heather Ogden, Guillaume Côté
(The National Ballet of Canada)

"Birthday Dances"
Created for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Choreography: John Neumeier
Carolina Agüero, Marc Jubete
Mayo Arii, Aleix Martínez
Florencia Chinellato, Matias Oberlin
Patricia Friza, Dario Franconi

◆SECOND PART

"Bernstein Serenade"
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Choreography: John Neumeier
Christopher Evans
Alexandr Trusch
Hélène Bouchet
Emilie Mazon
Madoka Sugai
Jacopo Bellussi
Karen Azatyan
Ensemble
Violin: Vadim Gluzman
Piano: Michal Bialk

◆THIRD PART

Excerpt from "The Sleeping Beauty" – Rose Adagio
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Alina Cojocaru (English National Ballet)
Spanish Prince: Karen Azatyan
Russian Prince: .Jacopo Bellussi
Indian Prince: Dario Franconi
Egyptian Prince: David Rodriguez

John's Dream – And What We Call Growing Up

"John's Dream"
Choreography and Text: National Youth Ballet

"Hallelujah"
Music: free after Leonard Cohen
Choreography: Yuka Oishi

"Coming Together"
Text: Charlotte Larzelere

"Just Like A Woman" / "Natural Woman"
Music: free after Bob Dylan / Carol King
Choreography: Sasha Riva / Sara Ezzell

"This Is Not a Song, It's an Outburst"
Music: free after Sixto Rodriguez
Choreography: Kristian Lever

"Humanity"
Choreography and Text: National Youth Ballet

"Talkin' Bout A Revolution"
Music: free after Tracy Chapman
Choreography: National Youth Ballet

National Youth Ballet:
Natsuka Abe, Sara Ezzell, Charlotte Larzelere, Freja Maria Lützhøft, Marcelo Ferreira, Artem Prokopchuk, Emiliano Torres, Ricardo Urbina
Musicians:
Joycelyn Homadi-Sewor (vocals), David Berton (vocals, guitar), Kellen McDaniel (vocals, guitar, viola), Amelie Wallner (violin), Lukas Plag (violoncello, bass guitar), Aike Errenst (piano, cajón)

Excerpt from "Don Juan" for Rudolf Noureev
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Tomás Luis de Victoria
Choreography: John Neumeier
Silvia Azzoni, Alexandre Riabko

Excerpt from "The Sleeping Beauty" – Pas de deux "The First Awakening"
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: John Neumeier after Marius Petipa
Alina Cojocaru (English National Ballet)
Alexandr Trusch
Violin: Vadim Gluzman – Vadim Gluzman plays the Stradivarius violin known as "ex Leopold Auer"

"Tchaikovsky Pas de deux"
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine
Tiler Peck (New York City Ballet)
Herman Cornejo (American Ballet Theatre)

Excerpt from "Jewels" – Diamonds
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine
Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin
(Bolshoi Ballet)

"Finale: Candide"
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Choreography: John Neumeier
Ensemble

Host: John Neumeier

第一部＆第二部の感想に続く。