Classical Ballet Evening of one-act ballets. Carmen Suite. Prodigal Son. Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - Mariinsky II (New Theatre)
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets. Carmen Suite. Prodigal Son. Le Jeune Homme et la Mort 2022
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Composer: Rodion Shchedrin
Choreography: George Balanchine
Choreography: Roland Petit
Choreography: Alberto Alonso
Production design: Boris Messerer
Costume Designer: Georges Rouault
Scenery: Georges Rouault
Staging: Karin von Aroldingen
Staging: Paul Boos
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
one-act ballets in 3 acts
Carmen is a passionate, free-spirited woman
in contrast to the temperamental and fickle Don Jose. Fate,
a ballerina dressed in black and a representation
of Carmen’s alter ego, shows Carmen the cards. After a fight with
tobacco dealers, Carmen seduces Don Jose and convinces him to release her
from jail. Carmen is subsequently caught in a love triangle between
Don Jose and the popular bullfighter
Escamillo.
The Prodigal Son was
the last work Balanchine made for Diaghilev’s Ballets
russes in 1929; it was revived in 1950 by the New York
City Ballet with Jerome Robbins in the title role. Its music, by Prokofiev,
was written for the ballet, and its costumes and decor were created by
Rouault, making it a perfect example of the collaborative efforts
among artists that produced some of the best works
of the Diaghilev era.
Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is one of
the earliest and most famous works by Roland Petit. The ballet was
staged in post-war Paris in 1946 for the recently established
company Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees. The ballet by Roland Petit which we
know today is considered based on mime drama by Jean Cocteau. In actual fact,
both the theme of relationships between an artist and death and
the very image of a girl as death and lovers as death were key themes for
Cocteau; he had his own accounts to settle with women and he himself was an
artist.
Carmen Suite.
World premiere: 20 April 1967, Bolsoi Theatre, Moscow
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 19 April 2010
Running time: 45 minutes
Carmen is a passionate, free-spirited woman in contrast to the temperamental and fickle Don Josй. Fate, a ballerina dressed in black and a representation of Carmen’s alter ego, shows Carmen the cards. After a fight with tobacco dealers, Carmen seduces Don Josй and convinces him to release her from jail. Carmen is subsequently caught in a love triangle between Don Josй and the popular bullfighter Escamillo..
Prodigal Son.Premiere: 21 May 1929, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Thйвtre Sarah-Bernhardt, Paris
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 14 December 2001
Running time 40 minutes
The Ballet of George Balanchine Prodigal Son is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® service standards established and provided by the Trust
The Mariinsky Theatre would like to express its gratitude to Mrs Bettina von Siemens for her support in bringing the "Ballets of George Balanchine"project to life
The Prodigal Son was the last work Balanchine made for Diaghilev’s Ballets russes in 1929 with Serge Lifar in the role of the Prodigal Son; it was revived in 1950 by the New York City Ballet with Jerome Robbins in the title role. Its music, by Prokofiev, was written for the ballet, and its costumes and decor were created by Rouault, making it a perfect example of the collaborative efforts among artists that produced some of the best works of the Diaghilev era. New for a Diaghilev ballet was the Biblical theme and the religious spirit. In seeking eternal themes and turning to past artistic devices, western artists were trying to avoid the complete itellectual and artistic degeneration towards which their rootless experimentation was leading.Prodigal Son anticipated the trend toward religion of the 1930s and 40s. It was Diaghilev’s fate that he would always be ahead of fashion, even when he believed he had turned his back on vogue. The return of Prodigal Son to St Petersburg is of great significance. For the first time, a ballet of the most radical, late period of Diaghilev’s Les Saisons russes has returned to the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. That period of Russian and world ballet has been come home, which until recently was under artistic (avant-garde aesthetics of the late Diaghilev era) and ideological (use of religious motifs) censorship. With the return of Prodigal Son, the Mariinsky Theatre and its generation of young dancers have begun to restore an objective picture of the development of ballet in the 20th century.
Le Jeune Homme et la MortRunning time 16 minutes
Le Jeune Homme et la Mort is one of the earliest and most famous works by Roland Petit. The ballet was staged in post-war Paris in 1946 for the recently established company Les Ballets des Champs-Йlysйes. The ballet by Roland Petit which we know today is considered based on mime drama by Jean Cocteau. In actual fact, both the theme of relationships between an artist and death and the very image of a girl as death and lovers as death were key themes for Cocteau; he had his own accounts to settle with women and he himself was an artist.
A studio. The artist is unable to relax as he waits in torment. A woman appears: mysterious, sharp and heartless – the typical crafty Parisian woman – and during her brief visit she prompts the Youth to commit suicide. Moreover, she is, in fact, Death itself, its unique and original personification.
Production Sponsor: Toshihiko Takahashi
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets. Carmen Suite. Prodigal Son. Le Jeune Homme et la Mort 2022
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