Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya ({{lang-ru|???? ?????????? ?????????}}; November 20, 1925 - ) is a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of modern times.

Career

Maya's most acclaimed roles included Odette-Odilia in Swan Lake (1947) and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty (1961). In 1958, she was honoured with the title of the People's Artist of the USSR and married the young composer Rodion Shchedrin, in whose subsequent fame she shared.

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Swan Lake - Sleeping Beauty - 1958 - People's Artist of the USSR - Rodion Shchedrin

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After Galina Ulanova left the stage in 1960, Maya Plisetskaya was proclaimed the prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre. In the Soviet screen version of Anna Karenina, she played Princess Tverskaya. In 1971, her husband wrote a ballet on the same subject, where she would play the leading role. Anna Karenina was also her first attempt at choreography. Other choreographers who created ballets for her include Yury Grigorovich, Roland Petit, Alberto Alonso, and Maurice Bejart.

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Galina Ulanova - 1960 - Prima ballerina assoluta - Bolshoi Theatre - Anna Karenina - 1971 - Ballet - Choreographer - Yury Grigorovich - Roland Petit - Alberto Alonso - Maurice Bejart

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In the 1980s, Plisetskaya and Shchedrin spent much time abroad, where she worked as the artistic director of the Rome Opera Ballet and the Spanish National Ballet of Madrid. At the age of 65, she finally retired from the Bolshoi as a soloist. Since 1994, she has been presiding over the annual international ballet competitions called Maya.

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Rome Opera Ballet - Spanish National Ballet - Madrid - 65 - 1994

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