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September 22 - 110 birthday of Alexei P. Ivanon, the People's Artist of the USSR and the Bolshoi Theatre's soloist Historic Stage - rehearsal day New Stage - rehearsal day Mass media about the Theatre On September 26 and 28 the Bolshoi's music director Tugan Sokhiev will make his debut with the concert version of the opera "The Maid of Orleans". A photo from a rehearsal by Damir Yusupov Y uri Grigorovich's Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists brought the legendary ballet "Spartacus", choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich to the music by A. Khachaturian, to Athens; the guest performances took place during the Athens festival. Photo: Grigory Moisaidis Newsletter performance of this opera has every chance to have European charm, especially if the kings, the knights, the soldiers, the fools and the page-boys of the Bolshoi Theatre will agree with the courteous style of conducting. The Bolshoi Theatre Museum presents exhibits, marking the 200 anniversary of M. Y. Lermontov On September 18 the opening of the large-scale All-Russian exhibition, marking the 200 anniversary of M. Y. Lermontov (1814 - 1841) took place at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is entitled "My home is always there in the heaven's vault…" and is dedicated to the poet's life and creative work. The Bolshoi Theatre Museum participates in the project as well. The artists of the Bolshoi Opera Company have always performed wonderful romances to Lermontov's lyrics, and will always continue to do so. Most importantly, there are "Lermontov" productions. There is the famous opera "The Demon" by A. Rubinstein and the much less famous opera "Bela" by A. Alexandrov. The opera "The Demon" premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre. Four years later, in 1879, it was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre (conductor - Enrico Modesto Bevignani, director - Alexander Dmitriev, set designer - Karl Valts). The wonderful singer and artist Pavel Khokhlov, who was the Bolshoi's soloist at the time (he also performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, and, by the way, sang the part of Demon there as well), performed the leading part; it was a great success. Critics wrote that he managed to embody the image of "The melancholy Demon, the spirit of exile". In 1904 the opera was staged again (conductor - Ippolit Altani, director - Romuald V asilevsky, ballet masters - Alexei Bogdanov and Alexander Gorsky, the set was designed by several artists, including Konstantin Korovin). This production existed until 1936. The casts starred many outstanding artists. However, it was Chaliapin, whose performance of this part became a milestone; that made this opera famous at the theatres in both capitals. It was planned to create a new production of the opera in 1942, but this idea was never came to life. However, the Bolshoi received wonderful sketches, created by Petr Williams. In 1953 the opera "The Demon" was staged at the Bolshoi's affiliate (nowadays known as the Moscow Operetta) by the conductor M. Zhukov, the director T itsian Sharashidze and the set designer Tamara Starzhenetskaya. Again, the cast starred the Bolshoi's best artists - Alexei Bolshakov as Demon, Natalia Shpiller as T amara, Solomon Khrmonchenko as Sinodal, etc. "Bela" was performed at the Bolshoi only 12 times. The first performance at the Bolshoi's affiliate took place on November 29 1946, the last one - on May 11 1947. The production team looks very impressive: the conductor - a very young Kirill Kondrashin, who had been given the position at the Bolshoi Theatre not long time before, the director - Boris Pokrovsky, who was also very young at the time and had also recently joined the Bolshoi. However, there was one long time luminary - the wonderful theatre designer Vladimir Dmitriev. The Bolshoi Theatre Museum will present 26 exhibits, including Konstantin Korovin's, Petr Williams's and Tamara Starzhenetskaya's sketches for the opera "The Demon" by A. Rubinstein, Vladimir Dmitriev's sketches for the opera "Bela" and the clavier of this opera, signed by the composer Anatoly Alexandrov. The world premiere of the ballet, based on the set of novels "A Hero of Our Time", is scheduled to take place at the Bolshoi next year. Ilya Demutsky was commissioned to write the music; the new production will be created by Yuri Posokhov and Kirill Serebrennikov. The ballet is planned to premiere in June. Eternity and a single moment Y uri Grigorovich's Ballet Theatre performed at the famous Odeon of Herodes Atticus. The performances were a great success The open theatre Herodium on the southern side of Acropolis, built in 161 A.D. still functions; every year world-famous artists and collectives come here for the Athens Festival. Maria Callas, Irina Arkhipova, Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan, Sviatoslav Richter, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev… And, of course, the Bolshoi Ballet, which came here three times (in 1977, 1988 and 2002). This time Yuri Grigorovich's Ballet Theatre and the Bolshoi Ballet's soloists brought the legendary ballet "Spartacus" to the music by Aram Khachaturian and "Giselle" to the music by A. Adam; both ballets were choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. Spartacus - Denis Rodkin. Photo: Grigory Moisaidis Y uri Grigorovich: "I have entered this place now, after so many years, and immediately touched the walls, the stones that can express so much. The movements of the dancing artist in this eternal set, the music of the orchestra, the breathing of this amphitheatre that can seat five thousand people - all of this really impresses and astonishes; it creates the special effect, when space, time and art come together. W e started the performances late in the evening, when the sun went down, so the stars in the night sky "worked" for us, the moon appeared - it was a full moon - and it looked down at the people, both the Greeks and the Russians, all of those, who filled in this huge amphitheatre and composed "the single world soul". The Krasnodar Ballet Theatre was invited to Greece for the fourth time (earlier the company performed at other venues); the new generation of the Bolshoi Ballet's soloists took part in the guest performances as well. The casts starred Maria V inogradova (Phrygia), Ekaterina Shipulina (Aegina), Denis Rodkin (Spartacus), Alexander Volchkov (Crassus), Anna Nikulina (Giselle) and Ruslan Skvortsov (Albrecht). Pavel Sorokin conducted the orchestra. Each of the artists had their moment of glory, and they will probably remember it for a long time. Notes of eternity in "Spartacus" and "Giselle" became even more prominent. Human passions, the urge for freedom, the lust for beauty and love - everything can be found in the September, 23 2014 Newsletter classical Russian ballet. Nothing has been lost; everything has its own sound and resonates in the new time and in the old setting. Yuri Grigorovich's Krasnodar Ballet Theatre will soon celebrate its 20 anniversary. It is already very prominent both in Russian and abroad (the company has made guest appearances in 13 countries). This time the collective gave three performances in Herodium and headed to Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. The Minister of Culture gave out government awards Vladimir Medinsky, the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, awarded letters of recognition and letters of acknowledgement from the President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture, Orders of Honor, Orders of Friendship and Medals of the Order of Merit for the Motherland to 61 luminaries of culture and art. The honored guests were awarded various titles: People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Man of Art of the Russian Federation and Honored Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation. /…/ The title "The Honored Artist of the Russian Federation" was awarded to: Maxim V. A verin, the artist of the Russian State "Satirikon" Theatre named after Arkady Raikin Andrei L. Bolorin, the ballet artists of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Mikhail V. Guzhov, the soloist of the Moscow State Theatre Helikon-Opera, directed by Dmitry Bertman Vladimir I. Zaitsev, the artist of the Moscow Drama Theatre named after M.N. Ermolova Alexander P. Kazachenko, the orchestra musician of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Anna B. Levina, the orchestra musician of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Alexei A. Levinksy, the director of the Moscow Drama Theatre named after M.N. Ermolova T atiana B. Lyutaeva, the cinema actress and a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation Andrei N. Merkuriev, the ballet artists of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Alexander V. Parra, the artist of the Moscow Drama Theatre "Sphere" Rudolph Y. Fruntov, the artistic director of the Creative workshop "Film Studio Quorum". Evgeny Kern has died in a car accident. Many people remember him performing at the Bolshoi Theatre. We express our deepest condolences to the dancer's relatives and friends. Evgeny was born in Sverdlovsk. He graduated from the Moscow Academy of Choreography (class of A. Prokofiev) in 1988. He was a soloist of such companies, as"Russian Ballet" (directed by V. Gordeev) and "Russian Seasons" (directed by A. Prokofiev). Bolshoi Theatre in the Internet For articles published 19-21 September 2014 The Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell writes about the World Ballet Day saying it is a cause for celebration. Starting with the Australian Ballet in Melbourne, the stream will move on to the Bolshoi in Moscow, the Royal Ballet in London and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto before concluding with San Francisco Ballet giving dance viewers a chance to compare and contrast the five ballet companies. The Aspen Times (USA) reports about a local girl, Remy Lamping, 18, who has landed a position with the Polish National Ballet. She recently graduated from the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Picturehouse Cienmas announces its plans to build a new seven screen cinema in central London. In addition to films the cinema will also show live HD broadcasts of productions from arts venues, such as the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Bolshoi Ballet and theatre productions such as the Royal Shakespeare Company live from Stratford-upon-A von and National Theatre Live, art exhibitions and filmmaker Q&As. Agence France Presse (AFP) the French newswire announces that the French pay TV channel Mezzo will launch in Asia and Mongolia. Partnerships have been signed with prestigious companies or operas, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Bolshoi. The Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman will perform "Requiem" again /…/ This new version of "Requiem" was created in 2014 and is based on the one-act ballet to the music by W. A. Mozart, staged by Eifman in 1991. Boris Eifman has reconsidered the choreographic score of the first production considerably and added one more act to the ballet. This second act is based on the poem "Requiem" by Anna Akhmatova and was choreographed to the music of Dmitry Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony "In Memory of the Victims of Fascism and War". The ballet "Requiem". Photo courtesy: the Ballet Theatre of Boris Eifman Press-Office The production will be performed in St. Petersburg on September 24; then the company will bring its guest performances to Moscow. "Requiem" will be performed on the Bolshoi Theatre New Stage during the Chereshnevy Les Open Art Festival. /…/ September, 23 2014 , 7 Tver mass media: September 22 - the 110 birthday of Alexei P. Ivanov, the People's Artist of the USSR and the Bolshoi Theatre's soloist. He was born in the village Chizhovo of Bezhetsky district. The future singer graduated from the department of physics and mathematics of the pedagogical institute in Tver; he then taught at the carriage works college for several years and gave amateur performances. Later, when he became a Bolshoi Theatre' soloist, Alexei Ivanov gave concerts in Kalinin and Bezhetsk many times. He also became the laureate of the USSR State Prize three times. The monument to the Bolshoi Theatre's soloist in his native Bezhetsk District |
