06.08.2012
The Closing of the Season on the 29 July
The Mikhailovsky Theatre’s 178th season is drawing to a close. The opera season will end on 28 July with La Bohème. The ballet season will close with Swan Lake on 29 July.
Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème was one of the most colourful premieres of recent years. Critics called it “an unquestionable theatrical success” and “an impeccable performance”. A love story told through heartbreakingly beautiful music and directed with delicacy and respect to the author’s intended meaning, the opera has been a resounding success with the public, playing to a full house every night. On 28 July, the role of Mimi will be played by Tatiana Ryaguzova; the role of Musetta will be performed by Natalia Mironova; Rodolfo will be played by Marius Manea; and Aleš Jenis will perform the part of Marcello.
Swan Lake is the crown jewel of the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s classical repertoire. The theatre’s principal dancers, Irina Perren and Leonid Sarafanov, will lead the season’s closing performance on 29 July. Despite the relative newness of the team, its creative harmony and deep emotional connection are already obvious.
The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are part of the Summer of Ballet program that will carry the theatre through to the end of the season. The theatre’s July opera programme will also include works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Iolanta, Eugene Onegin, and The Queen of Spades.
Last season’s choreographic premieres, three one-act ballets by Nacho Duato, will return on 16 and 17 July. The Mikhailovsky’s artistic director custom-tailored ballets Nunc Dimittis (world premiere — 15 March 2011) and Prelude (world premiere — 14 June 2011) for the theatre’s ballet company. Earlier that evening, the Mikhailovsky Theatre will present the choreographer’s earlier ballet, Duende, set to the music of Claude Debussy. The choreographer calls Nunc Dimittis, inspired by Arvo Pärt’s religious music, “mystical” and “supernatural”. In Prelude, a deep, delicate composition, the critics saw the story of contact between two opposite, but inseparably linked, worlds: classical and modern dance. It is a story “of paradise lost; of a restless spirit and of the eternal perfection of the expressive body”.
Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème was one of the most colourful premieres of recent years. Critics called it “an unquestionable theatrical success” and “an impeccable performance”. A love story told through heartbreakingly beautiful music and directed with delicacy and respect to the author’s intended meaning, the opera has been a resounding success with the public, playing to a full house every night. On 28 July, the role of Mimi will be played by Tatiana Ryaguzova; the role of Musetta will be performed by Natalia Mironova; Rodolfo will be played by Marius Manea; and Aleš Jenis will perform the part of Marcello.
Swan Lake is the crown jewel of the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s classical repertoire. The theatre’s principal dancers, Irina Perren and Leonid Sarafanov, will lead the season’s closing performance on 29 July. Despite the relative newness of the team, its creative harmony and deep emotional connection are already obvious.
The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker are part of the Summer of Ballet program that will carry the theatre through to the end of the season. The theatre’s July opera programme will also include works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Iolanta, Eugene Onegin, and The Queen of Spades.
Last season’s choreographic premieres, three one-act ballets by Nacho Duato, will return on 16 and 17 July. The Mikhailovsky’s artistic director custom-tailored ballets Nunc Dimittis (world premiere — 15 March 2011) and Prelude (world premiere — 14 June 2011) for the theatre’s ballet company. Earlier that evening, the Mikhailovsky Theatre will present the choreographer’s earlier ballet, Duende, set to the music of Claude Debussy. The choreographer calls Nunc Dimittis, inspired by Arvo Pärt’s religious music, “mystical” and “supernatural”. In Prelude, a deep, delicate composition, the critics saw the story of contact between two opposite, but inseparably linked, worlds: classical and modern dance. It is a story “of paradise lost; of a restless spirit and of the eternal perfection of the expressive body”.
