Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts. Washington, DC

Kirov-Mariinsky has signed a 10 year contract with the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. This is the 2004-2005 appearance schedule:

Kirov Ballet: Cinderella
Jan 11 - 16, 2005
Opera House

Kirov Open Master Class
Jan 12, 2005 at 4:00 PM
Rehearsal Room
Running Time: 90 minutes

THE KIROV SPECTACULAR
Tuesday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 22 at 1:30 p.m.
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Kirov Ballet: Le Corsaire
Jul 5 - 10, 2005
Opera House

Дорогая Октавия, спасибо.... теперь Вам придется эту тему брать под свой неустанный контроль

Мы будем брагодарны.... знать что там творится в разных америках, япониях и германиях.

спасибо заранее.

New National Theatre, Tokyo

Diana Vishneva, Igor Kolb and Alina Somova, will appear as guest artists during this Ballet Season in Tokyo


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Diana Vishneva appearances with the American Ballet Theatre

Swan Lake 7/5/2005, 7/9/2005
Don Quixote 5/26/2005
Ballet Imperial 5/30/2005, 6/1/2005
Giselle 7/12/2005

American Ballet Theatre

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Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts. Washington, DC


Program and Casting Announced / Объявлен состав Мариинского на Январь


THE KIROV SPECTACULAR
Tuesday, January 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 22 at 1:30 p.m.

CASTING

THE KIROV SPECTACULAR
TSAR’S BRIDE: Gryaznoi: Evgeny Nikitin (1/19 & 20), Victor Chernomortsev (1/22); Marfa: Olga Trifonova; Lyubasha: Olga Savova; Sobakin: Sergei Alexashkin; Domna: Nadezhda Vasilieva; Dunyasha: Liubov Sokolova; Maliuta: Alexei Tanovitsky. QUEEN OF SPADES: Eletsky: Vasily Gerello; Lisa: TBD. SADKO: Sadko: Alexei Steblianko (1/19 & 20), Oleg Balashov (1/22); Volkhova: Irma Gigolashvili; Viking Merchant: Sergei Alexashkin; Venetian Merchant: Vladimir Moroz (1/19), Alexander Gergalo (1/20 & 22); Indian Merchant: Dmitry Voropaev; Liubava: Olga Savova; Nezhata: Liubov Sokolova; Duda: Vadim Kravets; Sopel: Viktor Vikhrov; 1st Elder: Vladimir Zhivopistsev; 2nd Elder: Alexei Tannovitsky. LA VALSE : Soloists: Uliana Lopatkina, Shishov Vladimir; Death: Soslan Kulaev; Three dancers: Alexandra Iosifidi, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Daria Suhokurova; First Pas de Deux: Natalya Sologub, Andrey Merkuriev; Second Pas de Deux: Yulia Kasenkova, Vasily Scherbakov; Third Pas de Deux: Sofya Gumerova, Maksim Zuzin. LE CORSAIRE PAS DE DEUX: Alina Somova, Leonid Sarafanov. RUBIES: Soloists: Diana Vishneva (1/18 & 19), Leonid Sarafanov (1/18 & 19), Sofya Gumerova, Irina Golub (1/22), Anton Korsakov (1/22); Four Dancers: Maksim Khrebtov, Vasily Scherbakov, Anton Lukovkin, Alexey Negviga. THE DYING SWAN: Uliana Lopatkina.

Kirov's versatility shines at KenCen.
The Washington Times. 01-20-05.


The Kirov Orchestra, Opera and Ballet of St. Petersburg combined their mighty forces Tuesday evening for a Kennedy Center gala that was alternately brilliantly alive and soddenly old-fashioned.
The supreme pleasure of this song-and-dance fete — to be given a final performance Saturday afternoon — was a vibrant performance of George Balanchine's "La Valse," set to Maurice Ravel's score and preceded by his "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales."
Though "La Valse" is a gem of 20th-century art, the opera selections came from scores more than 100 years old. The contrasts among the three opera excerpts, all steeped in Russian history or pseudo-history and stolidly staged, and the galvanizing thrust of the two major Balanchine ballets — "La Valse" and the sparkling "Rubies," set to Igor Stravinsky's "Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra" — were stark.
But music and dance were united thrillingly at Tuesday's gala, with Ravel's doom-laden "dancing on the edge of a volcano" score and Balanchine's dramatic and dazzling choreographic response matched by the passionate performance of the Kirov Orchestra under conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Ballet's elegant clarity and power.
This ballet noir is a haunting example of Balanchine's response to music and its emotional underpinnings in a fantasy-drama that tells no concrete story. Three women enter, dressed for a ball in colorful floating skirts and long white gloves, evoking an artificial world. They are joined by others; men and women throw themselves headlong into the voluptuousness of the waltz, swiftly entering and sweeping across the stage.
A woman in white, Ulyana Lopatkina, appears and eventually is confronted by a figure, Death, who holds up a mirror to her face. She recoils. The paroxysm in the music is matched by her fate as she is adorned by Death in funeral weeds and plunges her hands into the long black gloves he offers her. She collapses to the floor, then is lifted high above the dancers, who run in a circle ever more wildly as the curtain falls.
The Kirov Ballet, which is showing us more real dancing on this mixed program than it did with last week's full-length "Cinderella," also performed a bright and witty "Rubies." The striking opening of the ballet — the 12 dancers of its corps in scintillating dark red costumes standing motionless on toe — was met with applause, but its effect was muted by a pastel back curtain on hand for the next opera excerpt. Surely, a simple black backdrop could have been rustled up.
"Rubies" is a cheeky work, and the Kirov danced it with style. Diana Vishneva was joyously free in her solos, with Leonid Sarafanov, her inexperienced but promising partner, and Sofia Gumerova as the pin-up girl.
If ballet fared better than opera at the gala, it is perhaps because of its paradoxical status. With a history briefer than other art forms and the lack of a universally readable record of that history, dance has, perforce, been more dependent on new works, accounting in part for its reputation as the liveliest of the arts.
Three short ballet showpieces were also included — "Black Swan Pas de Deux," "Corsaire Pas de Deux" and "The Dying Swan." Like the opera selections, they were created before 20th-century modernism arrived. And they were unevenly danced — some by splendid veterans, others by promising newcomers.
Mr. Gergiev led the Kirov Orchestra in the overture to "Ruslan and Lyudmila" with his characteristic whirlwind tempo. In the excerpts from the operas, Olga Trifonova was quietly affecting in her mad scene in "The Tsar's Bride," and Alexey Steblanko and Vladimir Moroz stood out in "Sadko."

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ГАСТРОЛИ В КАРДИФФЕ, составы

http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/happening/4920.html

Cardiff casting, Mariinsky Fesival


Tue 19 April 7.30pm Don Quixote Ekaterina Osmolkina Leonid Sarafanov

Wed 20 April 7.30pm Don Quixote Olesya Novikova Faroukh Ruzimatov

Thu 21 April 1.30pm Don Quixote Irina Golub Anton Korsakov

7.30pm Don Quixote Irma Nioradze Andrian Fadeyev

Fri 22 April 7.30pm Fokine Ballets:
Chopiniana Ksenia Ostreikovskaya Igor Kolb
Schéhérazade Uliana Lopatkina Faroukh Ruzimatov
Firebird Tatyana Amosova Viktor Baranov

Sat 23 April 1.30pm Fokine Ballets:
Chopiniana Ekaterina Osmolkina Anton Korsakov
Schéhérazade Irma Nioradze Igor Kolb
Firebird Maya Dumchenko Andrei Yakovlev
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.30pm Fokine Ballets:
Chopiniana Daria Sukhorukova Evgeny Ivanchenko
Schéhérazade Uliana Lopatkina Faroukh Ruzimatov
Firebird Tatiana Serova Andrei Yakovlev

Mon 25 April 7.30pm Fokine Ballets:
Chopiniana Daria Sukhorukova Evgeny Ivanchenko
Schéhérazade Uliana Lopatkina Faroukh Ruzimatov
Firebird Tatyana Amosova Viktor Baranov

Tue 26 April 7.30pm Romeo and Juliet Evgenia Obraztsova Igor Kolb

Wed 27 April 7.30pm Romeo and Juliet Irina Golub Andrei Merkuriev

Thu 28 April 7.30pm Romeo and Juliet Evgenia Obraztsova Anton Korsakov

Fri 29 April 1.30pm Romeo and Juliet Maya Dumchenko Ilya Kuznetsov

7.30pm Romeo and Juliet Diana Vishneva Andrian Fadeyev

Sat 30 April 1.30pm Don Quixote Olesia Novikova Faroukh Ruzimatov

7.30pm Don Quixote Ekaterina Osmolkina Leonid Sarafanov

Casting correct at time of printing, but may be subject to alteration due to unforseen circumstances.

С официального сайта графства Кардифф: http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/


The Kirov Ballet
April 19 - 30

Wales Millennium Centre

We are delighted to welcome the legendary Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg to the Wales Millennium Centre. This visit is in association with the Mariinsky Theatre Trust (UK).

Don Quixote

This sparkling production of Don Quixote originally created by Marious Petipa for the Mariinsky Theatre, recounts the love affair between Kitri, a feisty peasant girl and her local sweetheart Basil, helped by the chivalrous Don Quixote.

Tuesday 19th – Thursday 21st April and Saturday 30th April 2005

Romeo and Juliet

A vivid retelling of the worlds’ best known romance, the ballet Romeo and Juliet, with music by Sergei Prokofiev, is one of the culminating achievements in Soviet dramatic ballet.

Tuesday 26th – Friday 29th April 2005.

Ballets of Fokine

Three contrasting ballets showing the superb artistry of the legendary Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokine – the ethereal Chopiniana, sensuous and exotic Scheherazade and finally the dazzling Firebird.

Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd April and Monday 25th April 2005

Ульяна Лопаткина с ключами от Wales Millenium Center


В РОССИЮ С ЛЮБОВЬЮ - ИЗ УЭЛЬСА
To Russia with love - from Wales
17/03/2004
http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?method=news.news_detail&ReleaseID=66




The beautiful key that will unlock the doors of Wales Millennium Centre, the new international centre for performing arts currently under construction on Cardiff Bay waterfront, took the next step on its global journey today, when Judith Isherwood the Centre’s Chief Executive handed it to Kirov prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina on the stage of the stunning Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

The world-famous Kirov (known once again in Russia by its original name, Mariinsky), is one of the leading ballet companies in the world, with strict classical traditions of elegance and beauty. It gave the world premieres of such ballets as Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. Legendary artists who performed with the Company included Pavlova, Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov. Today the Company is renowned both for its superb principal dancers and the breathtaking unity of its corps de ballet.

The Company will perform during the Wales Millennium Centre’s opening year in April 2005, performing two full ballets and one triple bill. Uliana Lopatkina and other stars of the Mariinsky, including Diana Vishneva, Igor Zelensky, Daria Pavlenko and Leonid Sarafanov will lead the Company for this important residency. In receiving the key Miss Lopatkina said “It is wonderful that the world is to have a new international stage for ballet. I am looking forward to visiting Wales and dancing at the Wales Millennium Centre in April next year.”

Judith Isherwood commented “The Kirov is undoubtedly one of the world’s leading ballet companies, and it continually delights audiences wherever the company performs. They will perform at WMC during its opening year, and I hope that their time with us will lay strong foundations for a lasting relationship between the Kirov and our audiences that we will develop over the coming years”. The Kirov Ballet’s residency at the WMC will be in association with The Mariinsky Theatre Trust, a UK charity.

During the coming months, the key will journey to New York, Saltsburg in Austria, Italy, South Africa, Japan and New South Wales in Australia before returning to Cardiff Bay on 26 November in readiness for the Centre’s opening. Information on each leg of the journey will be issued in advance.

Tickets for the Kirov and all other performances during the Centre’s opening seasons will go on sale in May 2004. For further information, please go to www.wmc.org.uk