Maya Plisetskaya died

On Saturday, May 2, in Germany, the Mayan Plisetskaya ballerina died due to a heart attack. She was 89 years old. The artist will be buried in Russia. And on November 20, on the day when Plisetskaya would have turned 90 years old, an evening of memory will be held in the Bolshoi Theater.

“I was called the husband of the ballerina Rodion Shchedrin. She died of a heavy heart attack. The doctors fought, but could not do anything,” said Vladimir Urin, General Director of the Bolshoi Theater.

According to him, the artist will be buried in Russia. “It’s hard to talk about it, it’s not yet fitting in my head. Just the other day, we met with Maya Mikhailovna in Moscow discussed the celebration of her anniversary on November 20, conceived a grandiose gala concert in her honor. Mayan Mikhailovna was in full health, and nothing foreshadowed the trouble,” the General Director of the Bolshoi said.

Urin added that Rodion Shchedrin is now in a deep emotional shock. “Therefore, it is very difficult to discuss the issues of the ritual with him now, but Plisetskaya will definitely be buried in Russia, this is definitely,” the agency’s interlocutor said. On the air of the Rossiya 24 television channel, Urin said that on November 20, an evening of memory of the People’s Artist of the USSR will be held at the Bolshoi Theater.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed deep, sincere condolences to the relatives, friends and all admirers of the talent of the great Russian ballerina, the Kremlin press service reports.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, in turn, noted that along with Plisetskaya "a whole era of ballet was gone." “Maya Plisetskaya is no longer with us. But the legendary Carmen, Odette Odillia, Raymonda remained. Her dance remained. Deep condolences Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin and all relatives of Maya Mikhailovna,” the head of government wrote on Facebook .

"For all of us, she will remain an incomparable swan, passionate and delicate Carmen"

Former Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydka called the death of the legendary artist the great tragedy. “It always seemed to me that Maya Plisetskaya would live forever. We were preparing to celebrate her 90th anniversary. She was a great ballerina, a great actress, a great woman, a great wife - her marriage with Rodion Shchedrin was an exemplary phenomenon of family happiness,” told Interfax .

The current head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky noted that "for all of us, she will remain an incomparable swan, passionate and delicate Carmen, inimitable Anna Karenina, light Chinese." The minister also expressed his condolences "first of all, to her husband and partner in the art of Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin, her colleagues, students, all fans of her extraordinary talent."

According to Sergey Filin’s Ballet Khudruk, the news about the death of Plisetskaya shocked the Bolshoi ballet troupe. “We were preparing an amazing evening in honor of the upcoming 90th anniversary of Maya Mikhailovna. She took an active part in the formation of the program, we were constantly in contact,” Filin said. “And although the current generation of dancers was not encountered in work with Plisetskaya, Maya Mikhailovna was always as if next to us.

The artistic director of the Bolshoi also said that in the near future a program of events dedicated to the ballerina will be formed. “The whole ballet world has lost the legendary man. Maya Plisetskaya was a symbol of world ballet art, so it is very difficult for us all now, very painful,” he added.

"I never liked to train, rehearse"

Maya Plisetskaya was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow. In June 1934, she entered the Moscow Choreographic School. The years of study fell on a difficult time: the father and mother of Plisetskaya were repressed, then the war began and Maya, along with the mother, returned from the imprisonment, had to go into evacuation.

In June 1941, Plisetskaya successfully debuted on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater branch in the graduation concert of the school. In April 1943, the ballerina, having passed the final exams perfectly, was accepted into the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater. There, the leading parties gradually began to give her. The role of Masha in the "Nutcracker" P.I. Tchaikovsky - her first main party - the ballerina struck already in the first season of work in the Bolshoi Theater. Then there were Mirta in Giseli, a fairy of autumn in Cinderella, the title role in the ballet "Raymond" A.K. Glazunov, Kitri in Don Quixote and others.

Plisetskaya worked at the Bolshoi Theater until 1988. The history of the world ballet included its leading parties in the "Swan Lake", "Stone Flower", "Sleeping Beauty", "Spartak", "Giseli", "Raymond" and others. All these roles have honed the style of Plisetskaya - graphic, characterized by grace, acute and completeness of each gesture and pose, each individual PA and choreographic pattern as a whole.

The rare talent of the actress - bright, tragedy - was manifested in the party of Carmen in the ballet "Carmen -Suite", delivered by Alberto Alonso specifically for Maya Plisetskaya. The image of Carmen, one of the main roles of Plisetskaya in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater, was the brightest manifestation of the creative skill of the Great Ballerina, TASS notes.

In 1958, Plisetskaya married composer Rodion Shchedrin. The artist lived mainly in Germany, occasionally came with her husband to Moscow and St. Petersburg. The ballerina is awarded many awards and awards, the holder of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".

Plisetskaya danced on stage for almost 60 years, almost 50 of them on the scene of the big. “Now they wouldn’t even take me to a simple ballet school because of physical data -“ an unstable knee and a mediocre upsurge, ”said the legendary artist, resembles Interfax . Plisetskaya also admitted that she was an“ incredible lazy person ”.

“I never loved to train, rehearse,” Maya Mikhailovna frankly. “However, recently I began to think that this was the end of my stage career: I danced two, or even three times longer than it should, maybe because I had uncomfortable legs.”

The death of Plisetskaya is mourned not only in Russia

Concare in connection with the departure of the ballet legend is expressed in Europe. So, the rector of the Paris Conservatory named after Sergey Rachmaninov, Peter Sheremetev called the death of Plisetskaya a huge loss not only for Russian, but also for world culture. “Maya Plisetskaya was a wonderful ambassador of Russian culture in many countries of the world,” said Sheremetev TASS.

According to him, a special relationship was associated with France - she conquered her "during her first performance in Paris in the early sixties, when the curtain rose in her honor three dozen times."

The head of the French Musical Association "Friends of the Russian Seasons of the XXI Century" Sofya Loza, for her part, noticed that usually the stage career of ballet artists lasts no more than 15 years, "but Plisetskaya was able to create throughout the era, since it was not only a unique connoisseur of the classics, but also a fearless pioneer."

The Russian ballerina was the laureate of the Paris Prize named after Anna Pavlova, the gentleman of the Order of the Honorary Legion and the Order of Arts and Literature, as well as the Honorary Dr. Sorbonne. In December 2010, the soloists of the three largest ballet companies in the world - the Big and Mariinsky Theaters, the Paris National Opera - dedicated the Plisetsk gala concert in Paris.

The vice -president of the Association "Friends of the Russian Seasons" Olga Misho recalled that France played an important role in the personal fate of the ballerina - in 1955, at the evening of Lili Brik, arranged on the occasion of the arrival of the outstanding master of the French scene of Gerard Philip, Plisetskaya first met Rodion Shchedrin. Their union eventually lasted more than 60 years.

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