On 9 and 10 June the Mariinsky Ballet Company will tour the Armenian capital of Yerevan. The performances will take place on an open-air stage in Tumanyan Park. On the first evening the programme will feature one-act ballets by Michel Fokine; on the second evening audiences will enjoy a ballet divertissement drawn from masterpieces of the world repertoire. The tour will feature stars of the St Petersburg ballet stage alongside rising young artists. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Arseny Shuplyakov.
The programme for 9 June includes Les Sylphides (known in Russia as Chopiniana) set to the music of Chopin, and Scheherazade to music by Rimsky-Korsakov. Fokine’s plotless ballet Les Sylphides, a lyrical homage to the Romantic era, was revived by Agrippina Vaganova in 1931 and continues to captivate audiences with its ethereal beauty and weightless dance. The principal roles will be performed by Maria Shirinkina, Nikita Korneyev, Camilla Mazzi and Vlada Borodulina.
Another Fokine ballet on the programme, Scheherazade, remains one of the most vivid and influential productions of the early 20th century. Based on the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, the ballet caused a sensation at its Opéra de Paris premiere. The rich scenic designs by Léon Bakst, the groundbreaking choreography and Rimsky-Korsakov’s evocative score secured the work an enduring place in the history of ballet. The principal roles will be performed by Viktoria Tereshkina, Kimin Kim and Soslan Kulaev.
On 10 June Yerevan audiences can look forward to a colourful divertissement featuring Carmen Suite (Bizet–Shchedrin), the famous choreographic miniature The Dying Swan to music by Saint-Saëns, the Pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty and Minkus’ Don Quixote, as well as the Pas de trois from Adan’s Le Corsaire. A special treat for residents and visitors of Yerevan will be excerpts from Khachaturian’s ballet Gayane and the Adagio from Spartacus.
The line-up of performers includes Diana Vishneva, Viktoria Tereshkina, Renata Shakirova, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kimin Kim, Philipp Stepin, Maria Shirinkina, Roman Belyakov, Konstantin Zverev, Yevgeny Konovalov, Nikita Korneyev, Vlada Borodulina, Maxim Izmestiev, Yevgenia Savkina and Nail Khairnasov.
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