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 Ballet in two acts to music by Ludwig Minkus. Producing choreographer of the new edition on the basis of choreographic composition of Marius Petipa: Andris Liepa. The plot of the ballet is based on the well-known legend of unfortunate love. Love forces the characters of the story to break vows and to follow the longing of the heart and to take the risk. Love that exists out of time and counter to death. The producing choreographer of the ballet Andris Liepa has changed the structure of the performance and has given the classical plot a new look that has made the production unique. Beautiful scenery and costumes, expressive characters, fascinating plot — nothing will leave the spectator indifferent. The first time La Bayadere ballet was perfomed on January 23, 1877 at the Maryinsky Theater of St. Petersburg. The performance is accompanied by the Symphonic orchestra of Radio Orpheus. The artistic director and the chief conductor: Sergey Kondrashev.
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 Ballet in four acts to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. 170 min (with two intervals). Script outline after Vladimir Begitchev and Vasily Geltser. Musical Director and Conductor: Dmitri Jurowski. Staging: Mikhail Messerer. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote a little ballet about swans for his nieces and nephews. The story of the ballet is based on a German fairy tale. Swan Lake is a ballet that has become a symbol of Russian art itself. World premiere of Swan Lake took place at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on 20 February 1877, the choreographer of the production was Julius Resinger. Despite the fact, his work was considered unsuccessful by the critics of the day, Resinger’s original production of Swan Lake was kept in the active repertoire of the Bolshoi Theatre for seven years and was performed over thirty times. The second birth of the performance was on 15 January 1895 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. The revival by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov is a basis for most ballet companies, staging Swan Lake nowadays. The Swan Lake performance survived for more than a century without any significant changes since Maruis Petipa’s times and nowadays is being staged in more than 290 theatres all over the world.
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