The premiere of the revived ballet "The Red Poppy" will be held in Krasnoyarsk
23/11/201002: 06
MOSCOW, November 23 - RIA Novosti. The premiere of the famous Soviet-era ballet "Red Poppy", resurrected an outstanding dancer and choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Vasiliev
in honor of the centenary of the birth ballerina Galina Ulanova, held on the stage of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater on Tuesday.
The role of the dancer Tao-Hoa in the "Red Poppy" Reinhold Gliere was one of the most prominent in the repertoire of Ulanova. Her disciple, partner and friend of Vladimir Vasiliev, who was involved in this production, while still at the ballet school, he currently heads the Foundation Ulanova. In "Red Poppy", he acted as director, set designer and co-libretto, earlier told RIA Novosti news service fund, who took part in the revival of the play.
Vasiliev himself had said earlier that he was glad to participate in the preparation of this performance, which should be worthy of the final event of the jubilee year Ulanova. According to him, the starting point for him, as in all other papers, was the music building on which he reworked the first version of the libretto by Mikhail Kurilko and created a new version of the story with the same characters.
As for choreography and stage design of text, then, as previously noted creator of the ballet, the new "Red Poppy" will be absolutely original staging. Despite this, Vasiliev tried to preserve an atmosphere of "old" performance - the romance, and lyrical love scenes, funny and rousing folk ballroom dances and ethnic imagery of Chinese flavor. The choreographer said that ballet is a story about love and pursuit of freedom in the broad sense common to all mankind.
Costumes and stage design elements are made on the sketches of the young Moscow artist Maria Volsky. Sheet music for prescription of years scattered in different theaters and archives has been assembled the music director and conductor of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet, Anatoly Chepurnykh, and granted the guardian of the composer's memorial apartment - his granddaughter and great-grandson of Sant Gliere Cyril Novoselsky, reported earlier in the Fund Ulanova.
The debut of the ballet "The Red Poppy" was held in 1927, he was placed in all local musical theater, was in Bulgaria, Poland, USA, Czechoslovakia. Only at the Bolshoi Theater for the first three seasons took 300 submissions ballet, all them has been more than 4 thousand - it's hard to find an analogue of such popularity in the history of ballet. Ekaterina Geltzer was the first performer starring in "Red Poppy", namely her composer Gliere devoted his ballet. Tao-Hoa danced Olga Lepeshinskaya, Raisa Struchkov, Tatiana Vecheslova. After leaving the ballet appeared in the country cafes, sweets, perfumes called "Red Poppy". Over the years the story the play more and more politicized in favor of the Soviet party line in art, it was renamed the "Red Flower", and then completely disappeared from the repertory.
Return "Red Poppy" is dated to the first All-Russian Forum "Ballet XXI Century", which will also be held in Krasnoyarsk on Tuesday.
All-Russian Forum "Ballet XXI Century" devoted to the 100 th anniversary of Ulanova, implemented by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Krasnoyarsk Territory Government, the Ministry of Culture of the Krasnoyarsk region with the support of Galina Ulanova, Krasnoyarsk administration and under the patronage of the governor of the region.
The forum will review competition of young ballet dancers, the premiere performances of Minkus' Paquita "(Grandpa), Gliere's" Red Poppy ", Stravinsky's" Rite of Spring ", a gala concert of the laureates of Russian and international ballet competitions and a gala concert of international ballet stars . In addition, at the forum round table, photo exhibitions and film screenings about ballet.
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