Ballet Gala

Performers

CHOPINIANA

Maya Dumchenko, Yulia Kasenkova, Daria Pavlenko, Kirill Safin

DIVERTISSEMENT

Alexandra Iosifidi, Sofia Gumerova, Nadezhda Gonchar, Elena Yevseyeva, Viktoria Krasnokutskaya, Anton Korsakov, Ruben Bobovnikov, Daria Pavlenko, Ilya Kuznetsov, Anastasia Matvienko, Denis Matvienko

CARNAVAL

Columbine: Nadezhda Batoeva
Harlequin: Vasily Tkachenko

Age category 12+

Credits

Music by Frédéric Chopin, Carl Maria von Weber, Camille Saint-Saëns, Robert Schumann
Choreography by Michel Fokine

CHOPINIANA

choreographic composition in one act
Music by Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated: Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1908)
Scenario by Michel Fokine
Revised version by Agrippina Vaganova (1931)
Set design based on original sketches by Orest Allegri

World premiere: 8 March 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time 35 minutes

DIVERTISSEMENT

Scenes and pas de deux from the ballet and choreographic compositions

CARNAVAL

pantomime ballet in one act
Music by Robert Schumann (Le Carnaval, Op. 9, orchestrated by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, A. Lyadov, A. Glazunov, N. Cherepnin, A. Arensky)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Set and Costume design by Léon Bakst
The revival team:
Choreography staged: Sergei Vikharev
Sets reproduced: Mikhail Shishliannikov
Lighting: Alexander Naumov and Mikhail Shishliannikov
Costumes reproduced: Tatiana Noginova

Running time 30 minutes