Chopiniana. Carnaval. Carmen Suite

Performers

Conductor: Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich

CHOPINIANA

Anastasia Matvienko, Sofia Gumerova, Yulia Kasenkova, Maxim Zyuzin

CARNAVAL

Columbine: Nadezhda Batoeva
Harlequin: Vasily Tkachenko

CARMEN SUITE

Carmen: Irma Nioradze
Jose: Ilya Kuznetsov
Torero: Denis Matvienko

Age category 12+

Credits

Music by Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin
Choreography by Michel Fokine, Alberto Alonso

CHOPINIANA
choreographic composition in one act

Music by Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated by 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

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

CARMEN SUITE

Music by Georges Bizet – Rodion Shchedrin
Choreography by Alberto Alonso
Production Choreographer: Viktor Barykin
Production Designer: Boris Messerer
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich

World premiere: 20 April 1967, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 19 April 2010

Running time: 45 minutes