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Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Onegin
Ballet in two acts
BALLET GALA
(BALLETIGALA)
Dedicated to the International Dance Day.
April 29, 2010 at 19.00 at the Vanemuine Grand Building
Libretto Valeri Modestov (Russia)
Choreographer-director Vassili Medvedev (Russia)
Musical Director and Conductor Andrei Anikhanov
(St Petersburg Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Conductor Lauri Sirp
Stage Designer Boriss Kaminski (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow)
Costume Designer Josef Jelinek (Czech Republic)
Sisters Tatiana and Olga are waiting for Olgaś beloved Lensky and his friend
Onegin. Tatiana, who is only 17 years old, falls in love with Onegin, who is
older than she is, and in the hot gust of passion she writes him a letter revealing
her feelings. Onegin rejects the girl´s declaration of love gently, but firmly.
V. Medvedev´s ballet version of one of the most loved verse-format novel of
the same name by Russian literature classic aleksandr Pushkin.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty
(Uinuv kaunitar)
Ballet in two acts
Choreographer-Director, Libretto Pär Isberg (Royal Swedish Ballet)
Set Designer Bo Ruben Hedwall (Sweden)
Costume Designer Emma Gauffin (Sweden)
Musical Director and Conductor Aivo Välja
Conductor Lauri Sirp
Specially for the Vanemuine troupe, a totally new libretto has been created
to the „Sleeping Beauty”. Instead of the fairytale castle we see a beach resort
from the beginning of the 20th century…
Adolphe Adam
Giselle
Ballet in two acts
Director Stanislav Fečo (Czech Republic)
Choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and
Marius Petipa Stanislav Fečo
Musical Director and Conductor Lauri Sirp
Stage Designer Charles Cusick-Smith (Scotland)
This is a story of unreturned love, of madness, death and revenge where
atonement can only be brought about by the love that conquers all.
With the premiere of Giselle in 1841 in the Paris Opera Theatre, romantic
ballet achieved its most perfect and complex form.