Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960 she became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3585 |
| Birthday | 1925-11-20 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow, USSR [now Russia] |
| Also Known As | Maïa Plissetskaïa, М. Плисецкая, M. Plisetskaya, |
1966
Новогодний календарь
0/0
New Year's TV show with the participation of popular Soviet entertainers.
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Новогодний календарь
1957
Swan Lake
10/1
Film-ballet written by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The authors of the movie tell the story of the ballet's creation, as well as about various s...
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Swan Lake
2008
Mariinsky Theatre
0/0
A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition in opera, music and ballet.
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Mariinsky Theatre
1967
Anna Karenina
5.423/26
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to...
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Anna Karenina
1978
Carmen Suite
3/2
The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in love with her and whom Carmen leaves for the young...
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Carmen Suite
1962
The Little Humpbacked Horse
10/1
The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla Shche...
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
1970
Tchaikovsky
5.2/10
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of hi...
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Tchaikovsky
1985
M.K.C. Zodiakas
6/1
The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...
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M.K.C. Zodiakas
1975
Anna Karenina
6.571/7
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to...
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Anna Karenina
1959
Khovanshchina
6.167/6
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
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Khovanshchina
1954
Stars of the Russian Ballet
6.25/4
An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954...
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Stars of the Russian Ballet
1970
New Year's Abduction
7/3
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's conc...
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New Year's Abduction
2006
Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
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Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925 and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School, becoming a principal dancer with the Bolshoi on graduati...
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Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
1976
Fantasia
7/1
A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.
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Fantasia
1978
Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
0/0
Product Description ••••• A complete 1978 performance of this classic ballet stars the magnificent Nadezhda Pavlova and Vyacheslav Gordeev; the Bols...
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Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
1986
Lady with a Lapdog
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Rodion Shchedrin's ballet based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov, staged by the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The in...
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Lady with a Lapdog
1987
Maya Plisetskaya – (Un)known
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Maya Plisetskaya – (Un)known
1964
Maya Plisetskaya
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Maya Plisetskaya
The Little Humpbacked Horse
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A film adaptation of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet staged by the USSR State Ballet Theater.
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The Little Humpbacked Horse
1969
World's Young Ballet
0/0
In 1969, the Moscow International Competition of Ballet Artists played host to some of the dance world's most legendary names. Twenty-one-year-old Mik...
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World's Young Ballet
2008
Yevgeny Svetlanov. A Memory...
0/0
The telefilm is dedicated to one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
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Yevgeny Svetlanov. A Memory...
1970
Ballerina
0/0
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