From 2 to 8 October the Mariinsky Ballet will be performing at the Ravenna Music Festival.
The music festival, which brings major music and theatre talents to this ancient Italian city on an annual basis, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. Music itself is traditionally the festival’s stronghold, though its venues – including not just theatres but magnificent Byzantine basilicas, monasteries and public squares in Ravenna – will introduce audiences to the greatest international achievements in dance, drama, jazz and ethnic music in addition to opera performances and concerts of classical music. In Ravenna the Mariinsky Theatre will be presenting three programmes. On 2, 3 and 7 October at the Teatro Alighieri there will be performances of Swan Lake with Olga Esina and Xander Parish, Anastasia Kolegova and Yevgeny Ivanchenko and Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim in the lead roles. On 5 October the company will give two performances of the ballet Giselle with Kristina Shapran and Kimin Kim and Anastasia Kolegova and Yevgeny Ivanchenko. On 6 October Giselle will feature Oxana Skorik and Xander Parish (recipients of the 2014 Léonide Massine Prize, presented to them on 6 September in Positano in Italy). On 4 and 8 October the programme features the one-act ballets Chopiniana and Apollo as well as George Balanchine’s Rubies. Italian audiences will see Xander Parish as Apollo, Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim and Nadezhda Batoeva, Filipp Stepin and Sofia Gumerova in the lead roles in Rubies. The Mariinsky Ballet’s performances will be preceded by 3D screenings of the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Giselle recorded at the Mariinsky Theatre.
For details of the Mariinsky Theatre’s performances in Ravenna please go to the festival’s official website: http://www.ravennafestival.org/
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