Maya Plisetskaya
Date of birth: 1925-11-20
Place of birth: Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Maïa Plissetskaïa, М. Плисецкая, M. Plisetskaya
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Новогодний календарь
1966-01-01
New Year's TV show with the participation of popular Soviet entertainers.
Swan Lake
1957-10-21
Film-ballet written by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The authors of the movie tell the story of
Mariinsky Theatre
2008-12-02
A look at the rich history of the Mariinsky Theatre in the birth and growth of the Russian tradition
Anna Karenina
1967-11-06
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vro
Carmen Suite
1978-01-01
The plot centres on the tragic fate of Carmen, a gypsy girl, and Jose, a soldier who has fallen in l
The Little Humpbacked Horse
1962-10-06
The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy
Tchaikovsky
1970-08-31
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the l
M.K.C. Zodiakas
1985-01-03
The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's liv
Anna Karenina
1975-10-18
The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Pliset
Khovanshchina
1959-11-14
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
Stars of the Russian Ballet
1954-02-09
An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaik
New Year's Abduction
1970-01-13
The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to
Maya Plisetskaya - Diva of Dance
2006-01-01
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925 and studied at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School, becomi
Fantasia
1976-11-26
A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.
Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
1978-03-17
Product Description ••••• A complete 1978 performance of this classic ballet stars the magnificent
Lady with a Lapdog
1986-09-08
Rodion Shchedrin's ballet based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov, staged by the
Maya Plisetskaya – (Un)known
1987-01-01
Maya Plisetskaya
1964-10-01
The Little Humpbacked Horse
A film adaptation of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet staged by the USSR State Ballet Theater.
World's Young Ballet
1969-01-01
In 1969, the Moscow International Competition of Ballet Artists played host to some of the dance wor
Yevgeny Svetlanov. A Memory...
2008-03-23
The telefilm is dedicated to one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Yevgeny Fyodorovich