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24 January 2009, 19:00 Mikhailovsky Classical Ballet and Opera Theatre (established 1833) - Tours of the famous Imperial Russian Ballet (Gediminas Taranda Ballet) Classical Ballet Evening of one act ballets: Carmen (Suite). Sheherazade.
Schedule for Evening of one act ballets: Carmen (Suite). Sheherazade. 2010
Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer: Georges Bizet
Dancer: Farukh Ruzimatov
Choreography: Michel Fokine
Choreography: Alberto Alonso
Lighting Designer: Alexander Rubtsov
Orchestra: Mikhailovsky Symphony Orchestra
Performance by Imperial Russian Ballet
"Carmen (Suite)"
Music: Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin
Alberto Alonso’s libretto on Prospero’s short story to merime "Carmen"
Choreography: Alberto Alonso
Set Designer: Boris Messerer
Assistant of choreographer: Dormouse Kalero Alonso
Lighting Designer: Aleksandr Rubtsov
Anastasia and Denis Matvienko
Imperial Russian ballet under by the management of Gedeminas Taranda
"Shekherazada"
Music: N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov
Choreography: Mikhail Fokin
Farukh Ruzimatov
Imperial Russian ballet under the management of Ggedeminas Taranda
"Shaharazade" – is not a ballet in its origin. It’s a marvelous symphonic suite. The composer sent a programme before the opus: "The Shakhiyar Sultan, sure of women’s unfaithfulness, obeyed to execute every one of his wives after the first night. But Shaharazade saved her life, managing to occupy him with her tales. She had been telling them for 1001 night"…
Michael Fokin did not feel tied by the plot, when he turned to Rimsky-Korsakov’s music. He was attracted by the music itself. It was so bright, colourful and unusual. And on its basis he created his own libretto, having excluded the third part from the 4-part opus. Nevertheless, the ballet-makers imagination was quite close to music (gorgeous East, the Harem).
The symphonic masterpiece in the Fokin’s innovative staging got one more life in art. It was on the ballet stage this time.
The summary of the ballet
The Shakhiyar Sultan feels bored. He is amused by odalisques and his favourite wife Zobeida. The sultan’s younger brother Shakhziman hints, that Zobeida is unfaithful. Shakhiyar goes hunting to learn it. There is an orgy in the Harem. At the most passionate moment the sultan unexpectedly returns. He orders to execute all his concubines, eunuchs and black slaves. Zobeida kills herself…
Schedule for Evening of one act ballets: Carmen (Suite). Sheherazade. 2010
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