September 25 Dmitry Dorokhov - huntsman/huntsmen

September 26 Elvina Ibraimova, Anastasia Kazakova - furies Alexander Smoliyaninov - Jerome Yuri Baranov - the Marquis Costa de Beauregard Historic Stage - The Maid of Orleans. Opera in concert performance. PREMIERE New Stage - The Flames of Paris. Ballet in two acts "The Maid of Orleans" at the Bolshoi Theatre T ugan Sokhiev, the Bolshoi Theatre's chief conductor, will conduct the concert version of the opera "The Maid of Orleans" on September 26th and 28th. A photo from the dress rehearsal: Damir Yusupov Anna Smirnova will perform the part of Joan of Arc. Photo: Damir Yusupov choreographer from Moldova. Anna Tikhomirova said: "We consider Radu Poklitaru to be one of the best modern choreographers. It is very interesting to work with him, and it is also a lot of fun. He is a very witty person". Artem Ovchernko added that his character was a student, and the rest was meant to be a surprise. According to Elena Kaburneeva, the assistant director, none of the foreign stars have refused to participate in the project due to political reasons. She added: "Over the five years of its existence our gala-concert in the Kremlin has gained such a good reputation that artists have done everything they could in order to come, regardless of the fact that they all have busy schedules and tons of repertoire performances". From the history of the project

The first Kremlin Gala "Ballet Stars of the 21 Century" took place in 2010. The

Russian gala-concerts developed from the international project "Stars of the 21 Century", founded in 1995 by Solomon Tencer and his spouse Nadia Veselova- T encer, the graduate of the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute (today known as V aganova Academy of Russian Ballet). Thanks to the Tencer couple's organizational talents, over these two decades the concerts have starred the artists of world's leading ballet theatres: the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky (Russia), the Paris Opera (France), La Scala (Italy), New York City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet (the USA), Les Ballets de Monte Carlo (Monaco), Staatsballett Berlin and Bavarian State Ballet (Germany), the Royal Ballet (the UK) and other theatres.

Gala-concerts "Ballets Stars of the 21 Century" always gather full houses in Russia. According to Mikhail Sheinin, the executive producer of the project, all tickets to the jubilee performance (the cost varied from 500 rubles to 10 thousand rubles, approx. $13 and $260 respectively) have long ago been sold out. A children's music school in Saint Petersburg was named after Galina Vishnevskaya The children's music school No. 8 in the Kronshtadt district of Saint Petersburg was named after Galina Vishnevskaya. The city government decree was published on the Smolny official web-site on Thursday. Earlier this decision was made by the Saint Petersburg Toponymy Commission. /…/ Galina Vishnevskaya. ITAR-T ASS/V alery Sharifulin Galina P. V ishnevskaya (1926-2012) - a Russian singer (soprano), a People's Artist of the USSR (1966) and an actress. She was the wife of the Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav L. Rostropovich. Newsletter

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The 21 century: ballet is on-line as well A unique event that esthetes and ballet lovers should appreciate will take place

on October 1 2014. The international audience will be presented with the W orld Ballet Day live broadcast from the leading theatres of the world. Y ouT ube channel will feature live broadcasts from behind the scenes of five world-famous ballet companies. In the 20-hour broadcast the Australian Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Ballet (London), the National Ballet of Canada and the San Francisco Ballet will provide the audience with the chance to take a look at what is happening behind the scenes at the elite ballet companies, including morning classes and rehearsals. Videos will provide some information about dancers' personal lives outside the theatre stage, as well as allowing the general public to see how the performing styles of each company dif fers from one another. This on-line relay race will cross several time zones, from Melbourne to Moscow and from London to Toronto; it will finish in San Francisco. Follow the news in the social networks; #worldballetday The Bolshoi Theatre's artists will present a premiere in the Kremlin

The Fifth jubilee concert Kremlin Gala "Ballet Stars of the 21 Century" will take place

at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on September 27. According to Sergei Filin, who is the director of the program, the jubilee concert will have some surprises. RIA NOVOSTI. Ilya Pitalev Mr. Filin mentioned at the press-conference that the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists Anna T ikhomirova and Artem Ovcharnko would present a premiere at the Fifth jubilee

concert Kremlin Gala "Ballet Stars of the 21 Century"; it would be a piece choreographed by the Radu Poklitaru, a choreographer from Moldova. Mr. Filin said: Our main goal is to bring together the best artists of the world on this stage and to organize a real parade of stars. They would like to show the audience something that is interesting for them today, something they are working on today". The jubilee gala-concert will take place at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on

September 27 and will star the Russian prima-ballerinas Ulyana Lopatkina (the Mariinsky Theatre) and Anna Tikhomirova (the Bolshoi Theatre), the Bolshoi Theatre's principal dancer Artem Ovcharenko, Carlos Acosta (the Royal Ballet), Roberto Bolle (La Scala Theatre Ballet), Marlon Dino (Bavarian State Ballet), Dorothée Gilbert (Paris National Opera) and Mikhail Kaniskin (Staatsballett Berlin). According to Sergei Filin, the program of the jubilee concert will have some surprises. For example, the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists Anna Tikhomirova and Artem Ovcharenko will present a premiere - a piece, choreographed by Radu Poklitaru, a September, 26 2014 Newsletter She was also the Full Cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Motherland. She was born

on October 25 1926 in Leningrad. She spent the greatest part of her childhood and youth in Kronshtadt. She survived the blockade during the Great Patriotic War. At the age of 16 she was a part of the air defense team. In 1952 Vishnevskaya auditioned for the Bolshoi Theatre trainee group and was accepted, even though she had not studied at the conservatoire, and soon (according to the theatre director and pedagogue Boris A. Pokrovsky) became "the Bolshoi Theatre's trump card" and the leading soloist of the country's main opera theatre, where she performed more than 30 parts. The great singer performed and made records with the most prominent conductors; she also sang together with such outstanding singers, as Sergei Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Georgi Nellep, Ivan Petrov, Irina Arkhipova, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda and others. She became one of the first Soviet opera singers that gained recognition on the world opera stage. On the Bolshoi Theatre official pages in the social networks we published the following information:

On September 25 Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director, took part in the program "The Main Part" (Glavnaya Rol'). Y ulian Makarov, a musician, an actor and a TV show host, who has interviewed hundreds of Russian and foreign stars, talked to the distinguished guests. Photo from the shooting of the program: Katerina Novikova W e have also uploaded pictures from the briefing that took place yesterday before the dress rehearsal of the opera "The Maid of Orleans", conducted by T ugan Sokhiev: Pyotr Migunov (Thibaut d'Arc, Joan's father) answers the journalists' questions. Photo: Katerina Novikova Bolshoi Theatre in the Internet Makvala F. Kasrashvili. Photo: Katerina Novikova T ugan Sokhiev, the Bolshoi Theatre's music director and chief conductor. Photo: Damir Y usupov

September, 26 2014 Organization of internships and education of regional specialists at central theatres, planning federal opera and ballet theatres' tours around Russia, and the most important requirements for receiving annual grants, which have been designed specifically for regional theatres and have been distributed for the first time this year - these are the issues that were discussed at the meeting.

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September, 26 2014 , 7 For articles published 24 September 2014 The San Francisco Classical Voice writes about RAkU by Yuri Possokhov to music by Shinji Eshima in a programme presented by the Joffrey Ballet which it reported was "conquering audiences." "With its fearsomely difficult dancing and visually ravishing environment, Possokhov's RAkU is a stunner, pure and simple. And in some ways it brings the program full circle with a 21st century twist on Balanchine's ballet in its use of exoticism and non-traditional, often acrobatic movement. Its gasp- inducing lifts also suggest the vestiges of Possokhov's early career with the Bolshoi Ballet, though he uses total stillness to potent effect here as well. The article also mentions the upcoming World Ballet Day. The New York Times critic Roslyn Sulcas reports that Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, two of the world's most sought-after ballet choreographers, will create a new work for Wendy Whelans farewell performance with New York City ' Ballet. Ms. Whelan said that Mr. Wheeldon and Mr. Ratmansky had been her most important creative influences during her career, and that she had asked them to make a combined piece for her. Novaya Opera says "good-bye" to "The Tsar's Bride", staged by Y. Grymov

On September 25 the opera "The Tsar's Bride", staged by Y. Grymov, was performed at the Novaya Opera for the last time. /…/ The cast of the last performance starred Tatiana Pechnikova as Marfa, Boris Statsenko, the soloist of The Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Grigory Gryaznoy and the Bolshoi Theatre's guest soloist Agunda Kulaeva as Lyubasha. /…/ The Ministry of Culture discussed development of regional opera and ballet theatres Elena Milovzorova, the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, said at the meeting of the working group on cooperation with regional opera and ballet theatres: "It is the first time in the recent years that the government pays such close attention to the activities of such theatres. This is probably the most complex kind of theatre institution, which unites several collectives and brings them together".
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