Friday, 20 Mar 2009, 19:00
Mariinsky Theatre
1, Teatralnaya Square
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IX International Ballet Festival MARIINSKY

Polina Semionova and Igor Zelensky in the ballet

La Bayadère

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

Conductor – Mikhail Sinkevich
Premiere: 1877, Bolshoi Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time 2 hours 55 minutes
The Performance has two intermissions