Emmy award-winning broadcast "American Ballet Theatre in Le Corsaire" from California, 1998
Ballet in three acts, starring Ethan Stiefel, Julie Kent, Joaquin de Luz, and Paloma Herrera with Vladimir Malakhov, Jonathan Fagan, Rebecca Massey, and Georgina Parkinson.
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Ethan Stiefel - Conrad
Julie Kent - Medora
Joaquin de Luz - Birbanto
Vladimir Malakhov - Lankendem
Paloma Herrera - Gulnare
Angel Corella - Conrad's slave
Christine Dunham - Lead pirate woman
Michael Owen - Pasha
Corps de Ballet
Jonathan Fagan
Rebecca Massey
Georgina Parkinson
Choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius Petipa
Music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Prince Oldenbourg
Libretto by Jules-Henri de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier in a version by Konstantin Sergeyev
Kevin McKenzie - Artistic director
Ermanno Florio - Music director
David Lansky - Production manager
0:00 Summary by the cast
4:28 Act II: The Grotto
American Ballet Theater resurrected ''Le Corsaire,'' a three-act Russian ballet that ends with the spectacular sinking of a ship. The ballet, based on a poem by Lord Byron (1814), was first performed in London in 1837.
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