ESMERALDA
Ballet in 3 acts and 5 scenes, 2 intervals, running times 3:10
Music : Cesare PUGNI
Libretto : Jules PERROT after a novel by Victor HUGO
Original Choreography : Marius PETIPA
New choreographic version : Yuri BURLAKA and Vasily MEDVEDEV
Musical direction : Pavel KLINICHEV
Sets : Alyona PIKALOVA
Costumes : Yelena ZAYTSEVA Lights : Damir ISMAGILOV
With the Orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
With the Bolshoi soloists and the Bolshoi Corps de Ballet
Marius PETIPA (France 1818 - 1910) is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet in history. Noted for his long career as Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres (1871-1903), Petipa created over fifty ballets and revived a substantial number of works by other Ballet Masters. Most of his choreographies are cornerstones within the classical ballet repertory.
Yuri BURLAKA : Admitted into the Moscow Ballet School in 1986, he became first soloist of the Russian Ballet Company on the same year. After many successful productions (such as Le Corsaire which he created with Alexei Ratmansky in 2007), he became artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre in 2009.
Vasily MEDVEDEV : A graduate of the Vaganova Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg, Vasily Medvedev has worked with many theaters across the world both as a dancer and/or choreographer. He has been a member of the International Dance Committee (UNESCO) since 2007 and the artistic director of International Dance Festival “Dance Open”.
Inspired by Victor Hugo’s famous novel, Notre Dame de Paris, Esmeralda was first presented by the Ballet of her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1844. Originally choreographed by Marius Petipa, this choreographic version is from Yuri Burklava and Vasily Medvedev and first presented at the Bolshoi in December 2009.
Poet Gringoire, sentenced to be hanged, is saved in extremis by beautiful Esmeralda who agrees to marry him. Archdeacon Frollo, torn between his love for God and his obsession for the gypsy girl, sends his henchman Quasimodo to capture her. Esmeralda is rescued by Phoebus, the captain of the guard, who gives her his scarf as a souvenir. Later, alone, Esmeralda, starts dreaming about the handsome captain…
Distributor:
Forum Cinemas AS - ESTONIA
Director:
Juri Burlaka, Vassili Medvedjev
Links:
Official Site
