IX International Ballet Festival MARIINSKY
Polina Semionova and Igor Zelensky in the ballet
La Bayadère
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ballet in three acts
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Choreography by Marius Petipa (1877)
Revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani (1941)
with dances by Konstantin Sergeyev and Nikolai Zubkovsky
Libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov
Nikia – Polina Semionova (Staatsballett Berlin)
Solor – Igor Zelensky
Gamsatti – Anastasia Matvienko
Minor god – Alexei Timofeyev
Shadows – Irina Golub, Nadezhda Gonchar, Daria Vasnetsova
Premiere: 1877, Bolshoi Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time 2 hours 55 minutes
The Performance has two intermissions