Classical Ballet ! PREMIERE ! M O W G L I. The State Classic Ballet Theatre The Stars of the Classical Russian Ballet in the Summer Ballet Festival
Running time: 1 hrs 40 min
Schedule for ! PREMIERE ! M O W G L I. The State Classic Ballet Theatre 2022
Libretto: Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilev Stage Director: Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilev
Premiere of this production: 19 June 2007
Performance by The State Classic Ballet Theatre
Ballet in 2 acts with prologue
Ballet Libretto by N. Kasatkina and V. Vasilyov
based on the novel by R. Kipling
Music by Alex Prior
People’s artists and directors of the State Academic Theatre of Classical Ballet Natalia KASATKINA and Vladimir VASILYEV will be presenting their new staging of a ballet based on themes from R. Kipling’s “Jungle Book” at the opening of the Summer Ballet Festival.
The premier performance will be held on the 19th June 2007 at the “New Opera” as part of the annual summer ballet festival. Taking the conductor’s baton will be the musical work’s author, the young and remarkably talented musician and composer Alex PRIOR (born in 1992 in London). His father is English, his mother Elena Prior-Bromley the daughter of a well-known Russian academician Julian Bromley and a grand-daughter of one of K.S. Stanislavsky’s sons, historian Vladimir Sergeyev and Natalia Nickolaevna Bromley.
On the conductor’s podium: composer of the work, Alex PRIOR
Last year Kasatkina and Vasilyev met with Alex in Moscow. They acquainted themselves with his expansive range of musical compositions and shared with him their aspiration to stage “Mowgli”, not just as a ballet for children, but as a philosophical parable about human relations.
Natalia Kasatkina
“Alex is very young and exceptionally gifted; he has spontaneity and an almost childish clarity and purity of perception blended with a certain mature wisdom, beyond his years. We talked about music and our “Mowgli” libretto and Alex warmed to the idea. Just a month later we received the first part of the musical score and our cooperative undertaking thus began, much to our joy.”
Work on the ballet is now in full swing. In the autumn of 2006 an excerpt from the “Jungle Book” was first shown at Kasatkina and Vasilyev’s anniversary performance given at the White House. Leading dancers of the theatre are engaged in the performance: Nickolay Chevychelov as Mowgli, Natalia Ogneva as Agni, Velina Savkina as Messia (mother), Polina Kyrova as the she-wolf Raksha, Alyona Podavalova as Bagira, Sergei Belorybkin as Tabaki the jackal, Aidar Akhmetov as Sherkhan, Artyom Khoroshilov and other artists.
Vladimir Vasilyev
“Alex is unlike any other composer, although his music bears the hallmarks of a classical basis and compositional skills. It has very interesting movements - not that easy for orientation and interpretation into the language of classical choreography. It helps one understand the thinking of a new-age young man.”
Additional information
ACT I
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
THE MAN CUB
NIGHT-SONG IN THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER TWO
LAW OF THE JUNGLE
BALU’S HOMILY
ROAD SONG OF THE BANDAR-LOG - of a tribe of monkeys
KAA’S HUNTING SONG
CHAPTER THREE
MOWGLI’S FIRST STEPS ON THE PATH OF MAN
А К Т II.
CHAPTER FOUR
TIGER! TIGER!
MOWGLI’S SONG
CHAPTER FIVE
MAN LEAVES FOR CIVILISATION
Schedule for ! PREMIERE ! M O W G L I. The State Classic Ballet Theatre 2022
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