Ballet Show "Summer Seasons" by Russian National Ballet Theatre28 June 2016 - 28 August 2016 SCHEDULE 28 June 2016 - 28 August 2016
Summer Ballet Seasons in Moscow are an integral part of the summertime
cultural life that already became a tradition: the Seasons have been an annual
fixture of the cultural calendar since 2001. This year, from July 1 to
August 28 the best classical ballets will be performed on stage of the Russian
National Theatre for 16th time.
The SUMMER BALLET SEASONS were founded in 2001 and immediately attracted the
attention of audiences. The repertoire of the Seasons consists of classics
performed by promising and prominent Russian ballet companies.
More than 400,000 people have visited performances of the Seasons during
these years. In 2001, the project was planned as the means to settle tourist
problems - in the period of summer vacations, closed theatres and concert halls,
it was impossible to form a worthy cultural program for foreign tourists. Time
passed, and today the Seasons have turned into a prominent cultural event in
Moscow. The performances of all the ballet companies, participating in Summer
Ballet Seasons, are a great rarity in their own country, as they tour abroad
most of the year. For example Moscow City Ballet had 16 annual tours and more
than 1500 performances just in the UK !
The conception of the Summer Ballet Seasons is to cherish the inherited
treasures of the Russian national culture.
The performances traditionally take place in the very heart of Moscow in the
old Russian National Theatre next to the World Known Bolshoi and opposite the
Kremlin and Red Square.
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Summer Ballet Seasons in Moscow are an integral part of the summertime
cultural life that already became a tradition: the Seasons have been an annual
fixture of the cultural calendar since 2001. This year, from July 1 to
August 28 the best classical ballets will be performed on stage of the Russian
National Theatre for 16th time.
The SUMMER BALLET SEASONS were founded in 2001 and immediately attracted the
attention of audiences. The repertoire of the Seasons consists of classics
performed by promising and prominent Russian ballet companies.
In 2001, the project was planned as the means to settle tourist problems - in
the period of summer vacations, closed theatres and concert halls, it was
impossible to form a worthy cultural program for foreign tourists. Time passed,
and today the Seasons have turned into a prominent cultural event in Moscow. The
performances of all the ballet companies, participating in Summer Ballet
Seasons, are a great rarity in their own country, as they tour abroad most of
the year. For example Moscow City Ballet had 16 annual tours and more than 1500
performances just in the UK!
The conception of the Summer Ballet Seasons is to cherish the inherited
treasures of the Russian national culture.
This is the fourth year the the Summer
Ballet Seasons are organized in partnership with state unitary enterprise
MosConcert with support from the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow.
Participants include the best Moscow troupes: “La Classique” Moscow Ballet run
by Elik Melikov and Moscow City Ballet Theatre run by Victor Smirnov-Golovanov,
etc. For the third
time the Seasons open their stage to the Russian Classical Ballet
troup headed by Oksana Usacheva.
For several years already the Seasons’ participants include foreign ballet
troups that are known both for their artistic interpretations of classical
storylines and for their innovative modern production. For example, last year
the tour of “Kiev Modern Ballet” theatre headed by the iconic young
choreographer Radu Poklitaru enjoyed great success. The performances of Summer Ballet
Seasons traditionally take place in the Russian National Theatre located in the very heart
of Moscow — at Teatralnaya Square, next to Bolshoi and Malyi theaters, in
the magnificent old mansion — a unique monument of architecture built in
the 19th century. This place was always known as the center of Moscow’s cultural
life. It was frequented by Anna Kern, this is where the Artistic coterie headed
by Alexander Ostrovsky gathered for its meetings, this stage witnessed
performances by Fedor Shalyapin and Leonid Sobinov and in 1924—1936 it was home
to Moscow Art Theatre-II, whose director was
Mikhail Chekhov.
Each year the theatre’s lobby hosts exhibitions organized within the
framework of the Summer Ballet Seasons. Last year we showed mosaic works of art,
which were a part of the exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the great
French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
The Summer Ballet Seasons projects seeks to preserve and promote Russia’s
cultural heritage and introduces the audiences to the world-famous classical
Russian ballet. In the course of 15 years of the Summer Ballet Seasons’
existence the performances were seen by more than 400,000 people. Initially the project was
conceived specifically for foreign tourists who were visiting Moscow after
the closing of the theatre season. But residents of the capital showed great
interest in the performances and very quickly the Summer Ballet Seasons became
summertime Moscow’s business card.
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Russian Classic
Ballet
Russian Classical Ballet company
with was founded at the close of the 1990th and invited artists from the leading
theaters of Moscow and CIS countries to join its ranks. Robert Pratt, a famous
British-American impresario, also took an active part in shaping the
company.
Its first full-featured tour happened in 2002, and today the
company reveals a beautiful world of classical Russian ballet to viewers in a
number of countries, including Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand
and China.
Oksana Usacheva is the company's artistic director. Together
with wellknown choreographers from Russia, Italy and Belgium she rediscovers the
best classic shows, such as «The Swan Lake», «The Nutcracker», «The Sleeping
Beauty» and many others.
Moscow Ballet company "La
Classique"
The Moscow Ballet of Classical Choreography – “La
Classique” was founded in 1990 by its current director Elik Melikov, utilising
ballet dancers from the leading theatres of the CIS Countries and the Bolshoi,
Kirov and Ballet Theatres of Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi, Perm and etc. The following
ballets were staged and are now in the repertoire of the theatre.
The
prominent choreographers were working at the theatre. They are: N.Ryzhenko,
V.Kovtun, N.Dolgushin, V.Litvinov, Serge Manguette (Italy). The following
coachers trained the dancers of the company: N.Zolotova, A.Prokofyev,
B.Rakhmanin, L.Semenyaka, A.Kulayeva, L.Guseva, V.Koshelev.
The following ballet-stars have been dancing with the
company: Anastasia Chumakova, Alexander Tarasov, N.Pavlova, L.Kunakova,
A.Bogatyryov, L.Semenyaka, N.Yeryominko, A.Mikhalchenko, N.Semizorova,
M.Peretokin, I.Pyatkina, R.Pronin and etc. Recently world-renowned soloists:
Nadejda Ivanova, Andrey Shalin, Dmitry Smirnov, Ekaterina Shaliapina, Evgenia
Bespalova, Mixail Mixailov, Ekaterina Karpova, Andrey Laypin and others lead the
Moscow Ballet “La Classique”.
The various scenographers cooperated with the company.
Among them are: Мarina Sokolova, Maria Zavitskaya, Luca Dall’alpi
(Italy), Evgeny Gurenko, Marina Zotova and etc.
Currently Albina Dmitrieva, Evgenia Novikova, Ekaterina Karpova, Irina
Lazareva are coaching the trouppe. Damir Ismagilov and Boris Volkov frequently
designed lighting. Nowadays the following high professionals comprise a stage
team: stage manager – Sergey Bugakov, lighting designer – Sergey Yurkin, sound
manager – Alexey Danilenko, wardrobe supervisor – Nina Yurkina, administrator –
Valery Merkulov.
Always in demand, Moscow Ballet “La Classique” thrilled the ballet lovers
during the passed period with the successful tours in Italy, Morocco, Spain,
Egypt, Austria, Norway, Taiwan, China, France, Australia, New Zealand and the
UK.
The Orchestra of the Summer Ballet
Seasons
The orchestra of the Summer Ballet Seasons was created in 2002 specially
to contribute the work of the project. For these years the orchestra, following
the best music traditions, has formed its own style to perform ballet music
which is well known among theatre audience and music lovers. Not only
experienced musicians – representatives of main schools of mastery in Moscow –
are working in the orchestra, there are also young performers, which were
graduated from Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnesin Russian Academy
of Music.
The orchestra of the Summer Ballet Seasons has repeatedly participated in
tours of Russian ballet companies in USA, China, France, Germany. It was noted
in foreign press that “orchestra is not only an accompaniment, but the full
member of performance”.
Pavel Ovsiannikov
Pavel Ovsiannikov was born in 1951.
In 1977 has graduated from Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I.
Tchaikovsky (class of K. Hachaturyan). Since 1978 and till 2004 – conductor,
then the artistic director and the chief conductor of the President orchestra of
the Russian Federation.
A huge amount of records with the best soloists of classic and popular music
were released. With great success President Orchestra, with P. Ovsiannikov as a
conductor, performed on tours in USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy,
Israel, Greece and other countries. Pavel Ovsiannikov performed in the most
prestigious concert halls and theatres of our country and abroad.
He cooperates with many famous ballet troupes and his repertoire includes as
much as 20 ballets. He worked at the ballet performances with the outstanding
personalities of a ballet art like Yu.Grigorovich, E.Maksimova and V. Vassiliev,
A.Petrov, N.Kasatkina and V.Vasilyov.
Pavel Ovsiannikov is a member of the Union of composers of Russia. He is the
author of the ballet «Tom Sawyer» which has been staged first at the State
Kremlin Palace (1998). Presentation of his other ballet «Katya and the Prince of
Siame» (2003) took place in the capital of Thailand – Bangkok.
Since 2005 and till now Pavel Ovsiannikov is the artistic director and the
chief conductor of the Russian symphony orchestra «The Orchestra of the XXI
Century». He tours extensively and successfully in Russia and all over the
world.
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