Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
ballet in one act Friday | 16 March 2018|19:01
Age 12+ |
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Libretto: Michel Fokine, Leon Bakst
Choreography: Michel Fokine
Staging: People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
Musical director: Honoured Artist of Ukraine Viktor Ploskina
Sets and costumes: Leon Bakst
Reconstruction of sets and costumes: Anna and Anatoly Nezhny
Artistic heads: People’s Artist of Russia Andrey Petrov, People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa
Conductors: Andrei Ivanou, recipient of the Francysk Skaryna Medal Andrei Galanov
Running time: 40 minutes
Premiere: 9 November 2011
Зобеида - Ольга Гайко
Золотой раб - Игорь Артамонов
Шахрияр - Юрий Ковалев
Три одалиски – Куриму Урабе, Людмила Уланцева, Первана Мырадова
Главный евнух - Виталий Кулакович
Дирижер – Андрей Галанов
Bored sultan Shahriyar is entertained by the odalisques and by his favourite wife Zobeide. On the advice of his younger brother Shahezman Shahriyar is going hunting. Orgy starts in the harem, at the height of which the sultan returns. He orders to execute his concubines, eunuchs and black slaves. Zobeide kills herself.
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