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2 unusual facts about Scheherazade


Hassan Mohamed Hassan

With such lots of attention which he gave to the subject, Hassan always introduced his actors in the painting in a dramatic context with dynamism with embodiment to human emotion (see his Scheherazade and Shahryar painting).

On a Storyteller's Night

In parallel, a caped and hooded rider in Arabic clothing remniscient of Scheherazade on a horse rode on an apparent quest to reach to band, ultimately revealed to be a beautiful young woman.


Constantinos Carydis

In orchestral music, Carydis is noted for his reading of Falla's complete Three-Cornered Hat ballet and for Rimsky-Korsakov's coloristic Scheherazade.

Flore Revalles

By her mid-twenties Revalles was a singer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève until the set and costume designer Léon Bakst enticed her to join the European tour of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in productions such as Cleopatra, Thamar and Scheherazade .

Glenn Dicterow

Other compositions committed to disc are works of Wieniawski with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Lee Holdridge’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Holdridge conducting; Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Maxim Shostakovich on a Radiothon recording; and the Philharmonic’s recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with Yuri Temirkanov on the BMG label.

Léon Bakst

He produced scenery for Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), L'après-midi d'un faune (1912) and Daphnis et Chloé (1912).

Seduction

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

Takhir Sabirov

The Scheherazade trilogies were among one of the first Tajik film productions that achieved distribution beyond Russian (former USSR) borders, placing Tajik film on the map of International Film Festivals.

Valery Panov

There he choreographed several ballets, including Cinderella, Sacre du printemps, The Idiot, and War and Peace. He also staged Heart of the Mountain for the San Francisco Ballet (1976), Scheherazade and Petrushka for Vienna State Opera Ballet (1981), The Three Sisters for the Royal Swedish Ballet (1983), and Hamlet to music by Shostakovich for the Norwegian National Ballet (1984).


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