MASTER AND HIS CARMEN

On 24 April the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus will be left to the mercy of Carmen. Proud, fearless, uncompromising, dazzling…She will make her famous flight (through the crowd) towards life, love and... death again. She is going to be the person, that choreographer Valentin Elizariev saw her 45 years ago. This evening the legendary ballet will begin its existence in a new format – the format of revival.

On 24 April Belarusian Bolshoi invites everyone, who bought tickets to the revival of the production Carmen Suite, to come this evening early. You can enjoy an unforgettable meeting with master Valentin Elizariev and his Carmen. You will be able to communicate not only with the world-famous choreographer, but also to ask questions to brilliant artists and leading ladies: Lyudmila Brzhozovskaya, Tatyana Ershova, Tatyana Shemetovets, Olga Gaiko, Marina Vezhnovets, Irina Eromkina. Autograph session with your favorite artists, as well as an exhibition of unique archival photographs awaits you. Thanks to the talented photographers, who managed to catch, capture and leave in history the true feelings and emotions that artists gave to the audience during the performance, you will have an incredible opportunity to look into the past and see the scenes from Carmen Suite, since 1974.

So, we are waiting for you on 24 April in the Chamber Hall of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus at 18:15. Our doors will be open from 17:45. The retrospective photographic exhibition will take place in the foyer of the dress circle and will last for several weeks.

Carmen Suite is the first production of the People's Artist of the USSR and Belarus Valentin Elizariev, who is now the artistic director of the theatre, on the stage of the Bolshoi. In far 1974, after the premiere of Carmen Suite artists of the Belarusian Bolshoi lift and throw him up! ‘I almost fell’ Elizariev laughed. This ballet has toured all over the world. The audiences of Poland and Bulgaria, Greece and Israel, China and Great Britain, France and India, Germany and Moldova, Spain and Thailand and other countries applauded our artists. Yes, Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet was already performed in Moscow, but the Belarusian production is a completely different story. Elizariev’s libretto based mostly on Alexander Blok’s cycle of poems Carmen (not on Prosper Mérimée novel).