02.08.2012
New Year Holidays
The New Year holiday is one of everybody’s favourite festive occasions, best celebrated with close friends and family. During the Christmas and New Year holidays, the Mikhailovsky Theatre offers excellent opportunities for a family outing.
A visit to the theatre to watch an opera or ballet is, perhaps, the best present anyone could receive, as it brings with it vivid impressions and a wealth of emotions. During the holiday season, the Mikhailovsky will be delighting theatregoers with the very best of the classical repertoire, as well as new productions.
The New Year programme begins on 28, 29, and 30 December with Nacho Duato’s new version of The Sleeping Beauty. It recreates the atmosphere of Perrault’s magical fairytale — a world of fairies, elves, gallant princes, and beautiful princesses. A special New Year’s Eve gala concert will feature music by Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin in a programme entitled ‘American Masterpieces’.
The first production of the New Year will be the opera Iolanta on 2 January, with Maria Litke and Fyodor Ataskevich in the leading roles. Tchaikovsky’s music will also feature in the New Year programme on 4 January, when Tatiana Ryaguzova and Dmitry Darov will star in the opera Eugene Onegin. The theatre will celebrate Christmas with Boris Asafiev’s fairytale opera Cinderella, a particular favourite with children. Dvořák’s enchanting mystery Rusalka can be heard on 11 January. The Italian classics in the New Year programme are Puccini’s La Bohème (6 January) and Tosca (14 January), and Verdi’s La traviata (8 January).
The theatre’s ballet company will be touring Japan in January. However, on 4, 5, and 8 January ballet lovers can enjoy La Sylphide, a romantic story about an unattainable dream. The theatre is also lending its stage to the dancers of the Leonid Jacobson Academic Ballet Theatre, who will perform The Nutcracker on 3, 5, 7, 13, and 15 January.
A visit to the theatre to watch an opera or ballet is, perhaps, the best present anyone could receive, as it brings with it vivid impressions and a wealth of emotions. During the holiday season, the Mikhailovsky will be delighting theatregoers with the very best of the classical repertoire, as well as new productions.
The New Year programme begins on 28, 29, and 30 December with Nacho Duato’s new version of The Sleeping Beauty. It recreates the atmosphere of Perrault’s magical fairytale — a world of fairies, elves, gallant princes, and beautiful princesses. A special New Year’s Eve gala concert will feature music by Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin in a programme entitled ‘American Masterpieces’.
The first production of the New Year will be the opera Iolanta on 2 January, with Maria Litke and Fyodor Ataskevich in the leading roles. Tchaikovsky’s music will also feature in the New Year programme on 4 January, when Tatiana Ryaguzova and Dmitry Darov will star in the opera Eugene Onegin. The theatre will celebrate Christmas with Boris Asafiev’s fairytale opera Cinderella, a particular favourite with children. Dvořák’s enchanting mystery Rusalka can be heard on 11 January. The Italian classics in the New Year programme are Puccini’s La Bohème (6 January) and Tosca (14 January), and Verdi’s La traviata (8 January).
The theatre’s ballet company will be touring Japan in January. However, on 4, 5, and 8 January ballet lovers can enjoy La Sylphide, a romantic story about an unattainable dream. The theatre is also lending its stage to the dancers of the Leonid Jacobson Academic Ballet Theatre, who will perform The Nutcracker on 3, 5, 7, 13, and 15 January.
