Classical Ballet Evening of one-act ballets: Na floresta. Prelude. Invisible. Triple bill by Nacho Duato Mikhailovsky Classical Ballet and Opera Theatre (established 1833)
Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets: Na floresta. Prelude. Invisible. Triple bill by Nacho Duato 2022
Composer: Benjamin Britten Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven Choreography: Nacho Duato
Orchestra: Mikhailovsky Symphony Orchestra
Na floresta
ballet in one act music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Wagner Tisso
Choreographer, Costume Designer: Nacho Duato Stage Designer: Walter Nobbe Lighting Designer: Nicolas Fischtel Costume Technology: Alla Marusina Choreographer’s Assistants: Tony Fabre, Gentian Doda
World premiиre: The Hague, NDT-2, 15 February 1990 Russian premiиre: Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko State Academic Music Theatre, 24 July 2009 Premiиre at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: 23 May 2013
Running time: 20 minutes The performance is recommended for viewers above the age of 12
One-act ballet Na Floresta / In the woods is set to music of Villa-Lobos, arranged by Tisso. The woods in the title are meant to be in Latin America — on the banks of the Amazon; however, there’s no ethnography in Duato’s choreography — at least, no Brazilian samba in the ballet. It’s just a cascade of intricate ensembles, duets, solos and trios showing the freedom of wild life and the elemental power of human emotions.
Tatiana Kuznetsova, Kommersant
Prelude
ballet in one act music by George Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten
Choreographer, Stage Designer, Costume Designer: Nacho Duato Lighting Designer: Brad Fields Costume Production Engineer: Alla Marusina Musical Director of the production: Valery Ovsyanikov Choreographer’s Assistants: Zhanna Ayupova, Kirill Myasnikov In performance elements of scenery and the curtains executed by artist Vyacheslav Okunev are used
World premiиre: Mikhailovsky Theatre, 15 June 2011
Running time:: 40 minutes The performance is recommended for viewers above the age of 12
Prelude is an interpretation of the emotions and impressions which he experienced at the start of a new period of his life — in Russia, in St. Petersburg and with the Mikhailovsky Theatre. The new ballet is not based on one particular subject. The meeting of classical ballet and contemporary dance — two very different worlds, striving for mutual awareness and understanding — form its conceptual core. For all its apparent simplicity, the name of the ballet can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Indeed, its meaning is not just limited to the musical term. It can be assumed that in his new performance, Duato shall attempt to convey every emotional nuance accompanying the convergence of two opposing sources, and their subsequent merging, giving rise to a new life.
Invisible
ballet in one act music by Andrzej Panufnik
Choreographer, Stage and Costume Designer: Nacho Duato Music Director of the production and Conductor: Alexey Nyaga Lighting Designer: Nicolas Fischtel Costume Designer’s Assistant: Alla Marusina Choreographer’s Assistants: Tony Fabre, Gentian Doda
World premiиre: Mikhailovsky Theatre, 23 May 2013
Running time: 25 minutes The performance is recommended for viewers above the age of 12
This is a ballet about the complex feeling of excitement that a person gets when surrounded by nature. I want to show this acute feeling, invisible in everyday life, on the stage. The ballet’s colour scheme will be blue, the colour of the sky, and the colour of the world in general. I am reminded of the expressive works of Picasso in his ‘Blue Period’ when he said that he immersed himself in blue. Blue allowed the artist to move away from traditional art and towards abstraction, where he was able to express the immaterial. I would like to achieve the same. Nacho Duato
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets: Na floresta. Prelude. Invisible. Triple bill by Nacho Duato 2022
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