| Le Corsaire | Music: Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856) Choreography: Marius Petipa (original), José Carlos Martínez |
| Estonian National Ballet | |
| Lauri Sirp | Conductor |
| Iñaki Cobos | Set Designer, Costume Designer |
| Rasmus Rembel | Lighting Designer |
| Estonian National Opera Orchestra | |
| Taavi Varm | Video |
A passionate pirate Conrad rescues the enslaved Medora; he battles rivals, treachery and a corrupt pasha to be with her. With his fellow pirates, Conrad abducts Medora from a slave market to a secret grotto but will the lovers ultimately escape danger and find freedom together?
Despite having written over 40 operas, the ballets Giselle and The Corsair remain Adolphe Adam’s best known works. Loosely based on Lord Byron’s 1814 poem of the same name, The Corsair is a swashbuckling adventure. For OperaVision’s first steam from Tallinn, Estonian National Ballet has entrusted the choreography to José Martinez, director of dance at the Paris Opera, who comments: ‘For me it was a ballet that I never danced myself and it was interested to try to do something that would be respectful of the tradition, not a new version of a classical ballet. I wanted to give The Corsair something unique, and at the same time preserve the lush and beauty of all these famous moments, like the magic garden or the big pas de deux, the pas d’esclaves. I put all these iconic parts at the centre of the ballet and round them I built my story.”
Recorded on 12.02.2026
