La Neuvieme Symphonie By Maurice Béjart | Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Tokyo Ballet

The Ninth Symhony
Maurice Béjart, choreography
After Schiller's "Ode to joy"
Ludwig van Beethoven, music
Maurice Béjart, staging
Friedrich Nietzsche, Prologue
Gil Roman, artistic director

Israel Philharmonic orchestra
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Ritsuyukai choir
Kufiami Kuriyama, chorus master

Gil Roman, narratorr
Kristin Lewis, soprano
Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano
Kei Fukui, tenor
Alexander Vinogradov, bass
JB Meier and Thierry Hochstätter, percussion

Joëlle Roustan abd Roger Bernard, original costumes and sets
Henri Davila, costumes adaptation
Dominique Roman, Lighting realisation
Piotr Nardelli, Ballet Master revival

With
The Béjart Ballet Lausanne
The Tokyo Ballet

and Solooists
Dan Tsukamoto, Mizuka Ueno, Iori Nittono, Aya Takagi, Kathleen Thielheilm, Masayoshi Onuki, Elisabet Ros, Juien Favreau, Lisa Cano, Fabrice Gallarrague, Pauline Voisard, Felipe Rocha, Oscar Chacon, Keisuke Nasuno, Marsha Rodriguez, Cosima Munoz, Mari Ohashi, Kwinten Guilliams, Aldriana Vargas Lopez, Hector Navarro, Alanna Archibald


Recorded on November 9 th 2014 at the NHK Hall Tokyo
TV Director, Mari Hnamasu