MOSCOW, Oct 25 (BelTA) – I am pleased to receive our colleagues from Belarus, theater director Vladimir Urin said at a press conference committed to the start of the tour of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus in Moscow, BelTA learned.
“I already had the opportunity to take a look at the rehearsals. I can say that they are a classy and very professional team. They paint calmly, without fuss. I’m sure those tours will be a success and interesting. “Vladimir Urin said.
It also showed that the Belarusian Bolshoi tour had aroused interest among the Moscow public. “All tickets have been sold,” he said.
The existing tour of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in Russia takes position after an eight-year hiatus. At the request of the Russian side, the Belarusian theater presented its iconic performances, said the general director of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus, Ekaterina Dulova. “These excursions are a wonderful occasion for the musical and theatrical culture of Belarus. This is a new page in the relations between the two main theaters of Belarus and Russia,” he stressed.
In Moscow, the Belarusian company will offer two productions: The Wild Hunt of King Stakh through Vladimir Soltan produced by Anna Motornaya (October 25-26) and The Nutcracker through Pyotr Tchaikovsky produced by Valentin Elizariev (October 28-29).
King Stakh’s Wild Hunt with music by Belarusian composer Vladimir Soltan, based on the novel of the same call through Vladimir Korotkevich, is a national musical vintage of Belarus. The opera premiered in July 2021. Se sold out. The award for the functionality of the most productive musical theater at the National Festival to the most productive national cultural project.
The Nutcracker through Pyotr Tchaikovsky (conductor Valentin Elizariev, conductor Alexander Anisimov) premiered in 1982. The production featured several generations of ballet stars from Belarus’ Bolshoi Theatre. the Belarusian Ballet Company. The new edition produced through the People’s Artist of the USSR and Belarus Valentin Elizariev premiered in October 2020.