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Ballet in two acts to music by Ilya Demutsky. Choreography by Yuri Possokhov. Director, designer and author of libretto Kirill Serebrennikov. Music director Anton Grishanin. The new ballet score, based on motifs from the Lermontov novel A Hero of Our Time, was commissioned from the very young (32-year-old) Petersburg composer Ilya Demutsky who, though not averse to experiments, keeps to a fairly traditional musical language. However his acute interest in contemporary topics which finds reflection in his music, and his outlook immediately indicated that the ballet version of Lermontov’s Pechorin would in no way be a younger brother to the ‘Byronic’ Conrad in Le Corsaire. The fact that the ballet was to be produced by the avant-garde theatre director, Kirill Serebrennikov, was a further guarantee of this. In 2011 Serebrennikov filled his Bolshoi Theatre production of the opera The Golden Cockerel with contemporary allusions and four years later in ballet he demonstrated the unfailing relevance of the ideas and images in A Hero of Our Time for the present day. Responsible for giving form in dance to the conception was Yuri Possokhov, the esteemed choreographer in residence to San Francisco Ballet. The Theatre dedicated the production to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Lermontov, the great Russian poet, which was celebrated at the end of 2014.
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15:00 | Theatre HD: The Sleeping Beauty |
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Ballet. Russia 2017, 161 min. Libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa. Choreography: Marius Petipa; New choreographic version: Yuri Grigorovich (2011). Music Director: Vassily Sinaisky. Scenery: Ezio Frigerio. Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet in two acts based on the fairy tale about an enchanted princess who is awakened by a prince's kiss.
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15:00 | Theatre HD: The Sleeping Beauty |
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Ballet. Russia 2017, 161 min. Libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa. Choreography: Marius Petipa; New choreographic version: Yuri Grigorovich (2011). Music Director: Vassily Sinaisky. Scenery: Ezio Frigerio. Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet in two acts based on the fairy tale about an enchanted princess who is awakened by a prince's kiss.
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