Taming of the shrew ballet shostakovich biography

1969 ballet in two acts choreographed by John Cranko

The Taming of the Shrew is a ballet in two acts choreographed by John Cranko to keyboard works by Domenico Scarlatti arranged and orchestrated by Kurt-Heinz Stolze.

Taming of the Shrew was awarded for best ballet, best actress (Krysanova) and best actor (Lantratov).

Baptista struggles to marry off his tempestuous daughter Katharina, a shrew who denies that any man could possibly be her match.

A crass knockabout comedy that found little to show in the love story of Katharina and Petruchio beyond a Punch and Judy battle of the sexes.

Baptista struggles to marry off his tempestuous daughter Katharina, a shrew who denies that any man could possibly be her match.

Jean Christophe Maillot's take on The Taming of the Shrew for the Bolshoi () is more of a modern fairy tale than an account of Shakespeare's most.

With scenery and costumes designed by Elizabeth Dalton, it was first presented as Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung by the Stuttgart Ballet at the Wṻrtembergische Staatstheater in Stuttgart on 16 March 1969.^[1]

Background

Cranko's ballet is a dance version of William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew (1590–1592).

The story is a comedy about Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine; he woos her, marries her, and makes her an obedient wife.^[2] Shakespeare chose his title to signify to his audiences that the play was about the marriage of a man to an ill-tempered woman given to scolding, nagging, and aggression.

Such a woman, especially a wife, was known in the sixteenth century as