Swan Lake at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Dates: (10/13/2013 - 10/17/2013 )
Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre |
46a, Lenina str.
Ekaterinburg,Ekaterinburg
Phone: +7 (343) 350-32-07
Tickets: 100 ??? - 1500 ???
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"Swan Lake" is one of the most fantastic and perfect creations of world art, perhaps the most famous ballet in the world. His music and choreography had long considered a recognized masterpiece of World ballet, one of the brightest achievements of Russian culture. A White Swan will forever remain a symbol of the Russian Ballet, the symbol of its beauty and grandeur.
History of "Swan Lake" began in 1875, when commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre young but already famous composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composes the music for the ballet "at the invitation of the Moscow Directorate write music to ballet" Swan Lake ". I took up this work partly for the money, need, partly because I had long wanted to try myself in this kind of music "(P. I. Tchaikovsky, from the letter to the N.a. Rimsky-Korsakov). Treatment of the composer of such level (and by the time Tchaikovsky had already established four symphonies, the famous Piano Concerto and the Opera "Eugene Onegin") was not common at the time. In the Imperial theatres for this kind of creativity there were established composers – Cesare Pugni, Ludwig Minkus, Riccardo Drigo. Tchaikovsky did not set a goal of a "revolution" in the Ballet. With his usual modesty, he carefully studied ballet scores, not wishing to break with the established forms and traditions of ballet performances, inside their underpinning Sate high academic touch. But now it is generally accepted that it was "Swan Lake" Ballet national opened unprecedented musical horizons, and subsequently developed by Tchaikovsky and his followers.
The music is composed from May 1875 to April, 1876. The ballet is a fabulous story of Knight's time. There are many opinions about sources: it is called Heinrich Heine, German storyteller Johanna Muzeusa, Russian fairy tales about a girl-swans and even Alexander Pushkin, but history itself is completely independent. The idea probably belonged to the composer himself, but the authors of the libretto are Inspector Vladimir Begichev and the Moscow theatre ballet dancer Vasily Gelzer.
Opening night of performance took place on February 20, 1877 onwards, but, alas, proved extremely unsuccessful. Responsible for the failure of the public entrusted the choreographer Wenzel Rejzingera, not praised by contemporaries and first performer Polina Karpakovu main party.
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Authors
Ages: Age category 6 +
Cast and Creative team for Swan Lake at Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Aleksandr Gorsky
Conductor-Director – Pavel Klinichev
Art Director-the honoured artist of Russia Vyacheslav Okunev
Characters and performers:
Odetta-Odilia
honored artist of Russia
Margaret Rudin
Conductor-Director – Pavel Klinichev
Art Director-the honoured artist of Russia Vyacheslav Okunev
Characters and performers:
Odetta-Odilia
honored artist of Russia
Margaret Rudin
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