Adaptations of Anna Karenina
This is a list of adaptations of Anna Karenina, the 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Theatre
- 1992: Helen Edmundson's adaptation was produced by Shared Experience for a touring production. Edmundson won a Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992, and a TMA Award.[1]
Film
- 1911: Anna Karenina (1911 film), a French/Russian adaptation directed by Maurice André Maître.[2]
- 1914: Anna Karenina (1914 film), a Russian adaptation directed by Vladimir Gardin.
- 1915: Anna Karenina (1915 film), an American version starring Danish actress Betty Nansen.
- 1917: "Daughter of Anna Karenina" (Дочь Анны Карениной), by screenwriter, director Alexander Arkatov.
- 1918: Anna Karenina (1918 film), a Hungarian adaptation directed by Márton Garas.
- 1920: historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Johannes Riemann, and Heinrich Peer.
- 1927: Love (1927 film), an American version, starring Greta Garbo and directed by Edmund Goulding. This version featured significant changes from the novel and had two different endings, with a happy one for American audiences.
- 1935: Anna Karenina (1935 film), an American version starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March and directed by Clarence Brown.
- 1948: Anna Karenina (1948 film) starring Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson and directed by Julien Duvivier.
- 1953: Anna Karenina (1953 film), a Russian version directed by Tatyana Lukashevich.
- 1954: Panakkaari, a Tamil language adaptation directed by K. S. Gopalakrishnan
- 1960: Ezzel Dine Zulficar
- 1967: Alexander Zarkhi with music by Rodion Shchedrin.
- 1976: Anna Karenina, a Russian ballet version directed by Margarita Pilikhina.
- 1985: Anna Karenina (1985 film), a U.S. TV movie starring Jacqueline Bisset and Christopher Reeve, directed by Simon Langton.
- 1997: Anna Karenina (1997 film), the first American version to be filmed entirely on locations in Russia, directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean.
- see also Anna Karenina (soundtrack), the soundtrack of the 1997 film
- 2012: Anna Karenina (2012 film), a British version directed by Joe Wright, starring Keira Knightley.
Television
- 1961: Anna Karenina, a BBC Television adaptation directed by Rudolph Cartier, starring Claire Bloom and Sean Connery.[3][4]
- 1977: Anna Karenina, a ten-episode BBC series, directed by Basil Coleman and starred Nicola Pagett, Eric Porter and Stuart Wilson.[5][6]
- 2000: Masterpiece Theatre in 2001.[7]
- 2013: Anna KareNina, a Filipino drama series directed by Gina Alajar
- 2013: Rai 1 network, directed by Christian Duguay and starring Vittoria Puccini
- 2015: ABC.
- Upcoming Netflix miniseries is set in 21st century in Russia with Svetlana Khodchenkova in lead role [8]
Ballet
- 1972: Anna Karenina, a ballet with original music by Rodion Shchedrin, choreographed by Maya Plisetskaya (solo scenes) together with Natalya Ryzhenko and Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov (mass scenes). The music draws upon the composer's own score for the 1967 film and uses a fragment from Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
- 2005: Tchaikovsky.
- 2018: Anna Karenina, a ballet by John Neumeier inspired by Leo Tolstoy; music by Tchaikovsky, Alfred Schnittke and Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam[9]
- 2019: Anna Karenina, choreography by Yuri Possokhov, music by Ilya Demutsky[10]
Musical theatre
- 1992: Anna Karenina, an ill-fated Broadway musical adaptation.
- 1994: Anna Karenina, musical by Hungarian authors Tibor Kocsák (music) and Tibor Miklós (book and lyrics)
- 2016: Anna Karenina, an original Russian-language musical produced by the Moscow Operetta Theatre (live-recording filmed in 2018).[11]
Opera
- 1914: Karenina Anna by Hungarian composer Jenő Hubay, premièred in 1923, to a libretto by Sándor Góth and Andor Gábor based on Edmond Guiraud's play drawn from Tolstoy's novel.
- 1970: Anna Karenina by Ukrainian composer Yuly Sergeyevich Meytus.[12]
- 1978: Anna Karenina by Scottish composer Iain Hamilton on his own libretto, premièred by ENO at the London Coliseum in 1981.
- 2007: Opera San Jose.
Literature
- mashup novel by Ben H. Winters.
- Anna K[13], a contemporary novel by Jenny Lee.
References
- ^ "Helen Edmundson".
- ^ "Anna Karenina (1911)". IMDB. 10 February 1911.
- ^ Wake, Oliver. "Cartier, Rudolph (1904–1994)". Screenonline. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-02-25.
- ^ "Lost BBC period drama of Anna Karenina found starring Sean Connery". London: The Daily Telegraph. 2010-08-17. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-17.
- ^ "IMDb.com". Archived from the original on 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
- ^ "ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre | The Archive | Anna Karenina (1978)". PBS. Archived from the original on 2001-03-12.
- ^ "Masterpiece Theatre | Anna Karenina". PBS. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ^ "Netflix Adapts Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' As First Russian Original Drama; Svetlana Khodchenkova To Star". Deadline. 26 May 2021.
- ^ "Anna Karenina | The National Ballet of Canada". national.ballet.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-09-24.
- ^ "Anna Karenina | Joffrey Ballet". joffrey.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13.
- ^ ""Анна Каренина" мюзикл | Официальный сайт". 1romantic. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Classical Composers Database". 22 March 2003.
- ISBN 978-1-250-23644-9.