The Bolshoi Ballet - La Bayadere March 29, 2013

BALLET IN 3 ACTS

Music : Ludwig MINKUS
Libretto: Marius PETIPA and Sergei KHUDEKOV
Choreography: Marius PETIPA
New scenic version: Yuri GRIGOROVICH

With scenes from productions by: Vakhtang CHABUKIANI, Nikolai ZUBKOVSKY, Konstantin SERGEYEV
Sets after sketches by designers of the 1st production (1877) revived by: Valery FIRSOV, Nikolai SHARONOV
Costumes after sketches by designers of the 1st production (1877) revived by: Nikolai SVIRIDCHIKOV
Supervisor of scenery and costumes revival: Valery LEVENTAL
Music director: TBC

With the Orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
With the Bolshoi soloists and the Bolshoi Corps de Ballet

Marius Petipa’s seminal work La Bayadère was first performed at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St.Petersburg in 1877 in a grandiose production portraying a mysterious India and the impossible love between the sacred dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor. A scene from the ballet, known as The Kingdom of the Shades, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is considered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. Although a major work in Russian tradition, the ballet remained unknown for a long time in the West.

Dates & Times:
1pm, Saturday 30 March 2013
1pm, Sunday 31 March 2013

Tickets:
Adult $25, Senior, Pensioner & Youth 30&U $22, F/T Student & Child 16&U $15*
*Transaction fees apply
N.B. La Bayadère is a screening.

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