On May 18-19, the Jalil Theater will host the premiere of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty"
On May 18 and 19, 2021, on the stage of the Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil, within the framework of the XXXIV International Festival of Classical Ballet named after Rudolf Nureyev, the premiere of the play "Sleeping Beauty" to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marius Petipa (revised by Vladimir Yakovlev) will take place ...
At the XXXIV Nuriyevsky festival, viewers will see the performance in the version of the artistic director of the ballet troupe of the TAGTOiB named after M. Jalil, Vladimir Yakovlev. “In the 2021 edition, we brought back some of the musical numbers that had been cropped before, changed some of the mise-en-scenes, performed a new production of the Cat and the Kitty, the Gray Wolf and the Little Red Riding Hood dances in the scene of the wedding of Aurora and Desiree,” he said. "The performance has become two-act, the action is more integral, continuous: the intermission is the time of Aurora's 100-year sleep, which is quite logical."
On May 18, the performance will be presented by the soloists and troupe of the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater, the main roles will be performed by Christina Andreeva (Aurora), Wagner Carvalho (Prince Désiré), Amanda Gomez (the Lilac fairy), Alina Steinberg (the Carabosse fairy). On May 19, the performance will feature: the prima ballerina of the English National Ballet Maria Kochetkova (Aurora), the premier of the National Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus Artem Bankovsky (Prince Desiree), the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Antonina Chapkina (the Lilac fairy), Olesya Pichugina (the Carabosse fairy). The performance is attended by ballet dancers, orchestra, mimic ensemble of the theater, students of the Kazan choreographic school.
The conductor is Renat Salavatov, Honored Artist of Russia, People's Artist of Tatarstan.
Let us remind you that the festival is being held within the framework of the "Culture" national project of the "Creative People" federal project.
The premiere of the ballet The Sleeping Beauty took place at the Mariinsky Theater in 1890. The initiator of the creation of the performance was the director of the imperial theaters Ivan Vsevolozhsky, who attracted two geniuses of Russian art - the composer PI Tchaikovsky and the choreographer Marius Petipa to the work. The luxurious extravaganza performance has become the hallmark of Russian ballet and has not left the stage for over 130 years. After Petipa, various choreographers, including Rudolf Nureyev, created their versions of The Sleeping One.