The Mariinsky Ballet The Sleeping Beauty

Published on Oct 19, 2017

The Mariinsky Ballet The Sleeping Beauty

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: November 21-23, 2017

Show Time: 6:30pm

Venue: Opera House of NCPA

Prices: 280, 380, 500, 680, 820, 960, 1080, 1280


Features: The world's best ballet theatre - Mariinsky Ballet will presents the classical The Sleeping Beauty at opera house of NCPA from November 21-23 during the NCPA Dance Festival 2017.


BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The life-changing meeting between Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa was initiated by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Director of the Imperial Theatres. It was his idea to stage a ballet based on the French fairy-tale. He wrote the libretto; he created the unbelievably beautiful costumes and he was the co-creator of the miracle born from the genius of two great maestri.


The Sleeping Beauty was both completely traditional and utterly fresh. Its music, like other ballet scores of the latter half of the 19th century, had been composed according to the choreographer’s specific plan with indications as to the number of bars and the nature of their sound. But the execution of the commission did not limit Tchaikovsky’s music to the expected dance character alone. The ballet resounded with full-blooded exemplary symphonism. Its melodic richness could not but inspire great achievements. Tchaikovsky’s work did not inspire Petipa to undertake revolutionary steps. In the music the choreographer heard harmony. And his Sleeping Beauty was not a search for new methods; rather in its ideal construction it assembled together everything that the choreographer had done over his many years of work at the St Petersburg Theatre.


The Mariinsky Ballet The Sleeping Beauty

Credits
Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Librettist: Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa (after tales of Charles Perrault)
Choreographer: Marius Petipa
revised version by Konstantin Sergeev (1952)
Set and costume designer: Simon Virsaladze

Premiere: January 3rd, 1890, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Premiere of the revised version: March 25th, 1952, Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Leningrad

Running time: 3 hours 55 minutes
The performance has three intervals


The Mariinsky Ballet The Sleeping Beauty

The Mariinsky Ballet
The history of the Mariinsky Ballet is closely linked with the history of European choreographic art. An important role in the establishment and evolution of Russian ballet was played by foreign dance masters. The history of St Petersburg ballet in the 19th century was associated with the activities of Charles Didelot, Jules Perrot, and Arthur Saint-Léon. In 1869, the position of principal ballet master was entrusted to Marius Petipa who markedly raised the professional standards of the company. He developed the form of grand ballet – a multi-act production, the plot combining fully developed scenes of classical ensembles, colourful character dances, genre spectacle scenes and pantomime. Even today the ballets The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake (together with choreographer Lev Ivanov) and Raymonda created with the symphonist composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Alexander Glazunov form part of the "gold reserves" of the classical legacy and adorn the theatre's repertoire.


At the turn of the 19th century, the Mariinsky Ballet produced such great dancers as Mathilde Kschessinska, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky. Many of them brought glory to Russian ballet during the legendary Saisons russes in Paris thanks to which Europe discovered the St Petersburg choreographers Michel Fokine and George Balanchine who had set out at the Mariinsky Theatre launched their international careers. In 1920’s when Fyodor Lopukhov, a daring innovator and a brilliant connoisseur of the past, became head of the company, its repertoire was enriched with new productions and retained classical masterpieces. Marina Semenova, Galina Ulanova, Natalia Dudinskaya, Konstantin Sergeyev and Vakhtang Chabukiani danced at the theatre during that period. At that time drama theatre exerted a huge influence on ballet. The success of works based on literary materials - Rostislav Zakharov's The Fountain of Bakhchisarai and Leonid Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet - defined the rule of the drama-ballet on the Soviet stage in the mid 20th century. The late 1950s and 1960s at the Kirov Ballet stood out for Leonid Yakobson's searches for plastique imagery in the form of the multi-act production and miniatures, the revival of the traditions of symphonic dance in the ballets by Yuri Grigorovich and Igor Belsky. The success of these new productions was also ensured by the skill and expressiveness of the dancers Irina Kolpakova, Natalia Makarova, Alla Osipenko, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev and Yuri Soloviev. In the 1970s and 1980s following a lengthy period of isolation the company revived contacts with international choreographers; the Leningrad dancers worked with Roland Petit, Maurice Béjart and Jerome Robbins. In 1989 productions by George Balanchine were included in the repertoire for the first time. Altynai Asylmuratova, Galina Mezentseva, Igor Zelensky and Farukh Ruzimatov defined the face of the ballet company in the late 20th century. Since then the Mariinsky Theatre has actively collaborated with leaders in the field of world choreography. The company has worked with John Neumeier, William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Alexei Ratmansky, Wayne McGregor and Hans van Manen. Their ballets, alongside works from the classical legacy, 20th century masterpieces and productions by young choreographers, comprise the ballet company's repertoire today.


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Children under 1.2m are NOT admitted!

Tickets can't returned or changed once sold!

TICKET PRICES

  • 280
  • 380
  • 500
  • 680
  • 820
  • 960
  • 1080
  • 1280

Prices are in RMB (“×” Sold Tickets), Include Booking Fees

DELIVERY & PAYMENT

Please booking tickets online or sales@theatrebeijing.com. After your reservation is confirmed, our staff will delivery (Free service) the tickets to your address(only in Beijing), you could pay cash(RMB) or credit card.

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Opera House of Beijing National Grand Theatre

Opera House of NCPA

West of Tiananmen Square, Beijing

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