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12:00, 19:00. Arif Melikov's ballet in three acts. 170 min. (with two intervals). Libretto by Nazym Hikmet and Yuri Grigorovich. Music Director: Pavel Sorokin. Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich. Arif Malikov (also Melikov; September 13, 1933 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer. He graduated from the Baku Conservatory as a music composer in 1958. He shot to fame in 1961 when his first major composition "Legend of Love" was staged at the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad (present day St Petersburg) and received nationwide acclaim. The ballet has been staged in several countries in Europe and is regarded as one of the finest works emerging from the former Soviet Union. The ballet "Legend of Love", is based upon the legend of "Farhad and Shirin", a story of unrequited love that was immortalized by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.
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Fantastic ballet in two acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. 140 min (with interval). Libretto by Vladimir Begichev, Vasily Geltzer. Choreographers: Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov. Tchaikovsky’s first ballet masterpiece, "Swan Lake," was in fact born twice. Its first birthday happened in 1877, when the ballet was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre to Begichev and Geltzer’s script. The second birthday took place after Tchaikovsky’s death: in winter 1894 the Mariinsky Theatre premiered the ballet adapted by the great choreographer Marius Petipa and his disciple Lev Ivanov. They revealed the profound drama potential of the piece and it was their version that made Swan Lake one of the most popular ballets. The Russian Classical Ballet offers the Petipa version adapted by Valentin Grischenko.
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