Classical Ballet Evening of one act ballets: The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Scheherazade World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for Evening of one act ballets: The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Scheherazade 2022
Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich Set Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
The Young Lady and the
Hooligan one act
ballet
Music by Dmitry Shostakovich Choreography by
Konstantin Boyarsky (1962) Libretto by Alexander Belinsky based on the play
of Vladimir Mayakovsky Set design by Vyacheslav Okunev after Valery
Dorrer Costume design by Tatiana Noginova Lighting design by Vladimir
Lukasevich
World premiere: 28 December 1962, Maly Opera Theatre,
Leningrad Premiere: 30 May 2001, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time 45 minutes
Scheherazade one act
ballet
Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Choreography
by Michel Fokine (1910)
Scenario by Lйon Bakst and Michel
Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales
Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris
Liepa Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly
Nezhny after original sketches: Lйon Bakst
World premiere: 4 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de
Diaghilev, Thйвtre de lґOpйra, Paris In the repertoire of the Mariinsky
Theatre since 1994
Running time 45 minutes
The harem
of Shah Shahryar. Shahryar, King of India and China, is angry
because his brother Shakhezman has suggested that his wives are unfaithful
to him. To test the harem Shahryar goes off on
a hunting expedition. Almost as soon as the court has departed
the wives adorn themselves in jewels and bribe the Chief Eunuch
to open the three doors which lead to the quarters where
the male slaves live. Two doors are opened and the Chief Eunuch is
about to leave when Zobeide, Shahryar’s favourite wife, demands that
the third door also be opened. The Eunuch warns her against this, but
with further bribes and pleas she insists. The door is opened and
a Negro slave leaps through it to Zobeide’s side. They fall entwined
upon the divan. Food is brought in to musical accompaniment.
Dancing begins, led by the Golden Slave, and Zobeide joins in. But Shahryar
has returned unannounced and bursts in upon the orgy. Slaughter
follows and the revellers are indiscriminately cut down. The Chief
Eunuch is strangled. Shahryar kills Zobeide’s lover with his own hands. Only
Zobeide remains. Preferring death to dishonour she faces the Shah and
then, with a dagger she grabs from him, she takes her own life.
Schedule for Evening of one act ballets: The Young Lady and the Hooligan. Scheherazade 2022
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