Tickets for performances of the Nureyev Festival are on sale

The forum dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding dancer will be held in Kazan from 10 to 23 May.

(KZN.RU, March 30). Tickets for performances of XXXI International Festival of Classical Ballet named after Rudolf Nuriev are going to be sold. This year the forum is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding dancer. The festival will be held from May 10 to 23 at the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater named after M.Jalil.

The program of the festival will consist of performances of the classical heritage, the national repertoire, and the choreographers' performances of the second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. The forum of classical dance will open with the premiere of the new ballet production "La Bayadere" to the music of Ludwig Minkus in the choreography of Marius Petipa. The performance is updated visually (scenic artist - Andrey Zlobin, costume designer - Anna Ipatieva), some choreographic additions will be made.

It is worth to mention, that Rudolf Nureyev danced in the La Bayadère party of the warrior Solor, and at the end of his life, just two or three months before his death, staged this ballet in Paris, on the Grand Opera.

Conceptually, the program of the current Nureyevsky Festival is built according to chronology - from the XIX to the XXI century. At the beginning of the festival, the audience will see a block of performances dedicated to the year of Russian ballet and the year of Marius Petipa in Russia - besides La Bayadere (May 10, 11), Swan Lake (May 12) and Don Quixote (May 14); On May 13, the audience will see a masterpiece of Soviet national classics - the ballet "Shurale" to the music of Farid Yarullin in the choreography of Leonid Yakobson. For geting acquainted with the traditions of the drama it’s worth to see play "Romeo and Juliet" to the music of Sergei Prokofiev (May 20).

Within the Nuriev Festival-2018 in Kazan, two invited ballet troupes will perform at once: the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater of Boris Eifman and the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Before the festival performances on May 10-14 and May 19-20 in the pink hall of the theater will be held lectures. Leaders of the project Ballet Talk - well-known ballet experts and musicologists of Moscow and Kazan -they will acquaint audience with the history of performances and interesting facts.