Published on Jul 24, 2017

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: September 13-14, 2017

Show Time: 7:30pm

Venue: Opera House of NCPA

Prices: 160, 220, 280, 380, 550, 600, 680, 880

Features: Saint Petersburg Eifman Ballet will come to China and presents the Boris Eifman’s classic ballet Anna Karenina at Opera House of NCPA in Beijing from September 13-14 during the NCPA Dance Festival 2017.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Boris Eifman’s ballet Anna Karenina is a true burst of inner psychological energy and is amazingly precise in delivering emotional impact upon its viewers. By setting aside all secondary storylines in Leo Tolstoy’s novel, the choreographer focused on the love triangle among Anna, Karenin and Vronsky.

The choreographer said that his ballet speaks not of previous times but of today. The timeless emotional content of the performance and obvious parallels to reality can’t leave the contemporary viewers indifferent. The brilliant technical mastery of the company’s dancers and Boris Eifman’s astounding choreography is presented to us in a remarkably impressive way in all the aspects and peripeteias of the Tolstoy’s novel.

Credits
A ballet by Boris Eifman
Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy
Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Set Designer: Zinovy Margolin
Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky
Premiere: March 31, 2005

Synopsis

Act I
The scene opens with Anna Karenina in the heart of her family in St. Petersburg. At a high society ball, Anna meets a dashing young officer Count Vronsky.
In the Karenin household there is marital discord.
Anna and Vronsky meet again at the horse races, they fall deeply in love.
Anna’s life becomes difficult as rumours and gossip starts to spread about the Karenin’s relationship.
At a long-awaited assignation, passion overcomes the lovers’ rational thoughts.
After a confrontation with Karenin, Anna is overcome with dark thoughts foreboding. The married couple makes a reconciliation.

Act II
Vronsky is at his officers club.
Following a meeting at the Karenins` home, Anna leaves her husband.
Anna and Vronsky meet again at the horse races, they fall deeply in love.
At a Carnival in Venice, the affection between Anna and Vronsky begins to break down In St. Petersburg, high society turns its back on Anna. She becomes shunned and isolated.
In an opium induced state of mind, Anna is in the grip of visions and fantasies.
With final despair, Anna commits suicide.

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