NHK Hall Tokyo
The Ninth Symphony Ballet by Maurice Béjart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maurice Béjart’s compelling staging of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has been enchanting audiences worldwide since its inception and its idea of universal brotherhood remains highly topical. “Alle Menschen werden Brüder” (All men will be brothers) is the powerful message communicated by the unforgettable music and choreography.
From the stage of the NHK Hall in Tokyo 250 dancers and musicians send this message out into the world. “It is a ‘manifestation’, in the deepest sense of the word.” Maurice Béjart.
Although the ballet was planned purely as an interpretation of Beethoven’s music, Béjart added texts from Nietzsche, Schiller and others to the programme notes. These texts underline the major theme of universal brotherhood, a union of races and peoples culminating with the 4th movement’s ‘Ode to Joy’ and that “All men become brothers”.
Datasheet
ConductorZubin Mehta
DirectorGil Roman
ChoreographerMaurice Béjart
CastBéjart Ballet Lausanne | The Tokyo Ballet | Kristin Lewis | Mihoko Fujimura | Kei Fukui | Alexander Vinogradov | Gil Roman | Jean-Bruno Meier | Thierry Hochstätter
Number of actsBallet in one act
Total running time88 mins
Sung inFrench | German
SubtitlesEnglish | French | German | Italian | Spanish
Date of performance2014-11-08
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