Большой театр Беларуси

 

4 April 19:00

Gioachino Rossini

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

comic opera in two acts

Большой театр Беларуси

 

6 April 11:00

Gloria Bruni

PINOCCHIO

opera in two acts

Большой театр Беларуси

 

17 April 19:00

Ludwig Minkus

DON QUIXOTE

ballet in three acts

Большой театр Беларуси

 

13 April 18:00, 14 April 11:00

Sergei Banevich

THE STORY OF KAI AND GERDA (THE SNOW QUEEN)

оpera in two acts

Большой театр Беларуси

 

16 April 19:00

Camille Saint-Saëns

SAMSON ET DALILA

opera in three acts

Music Day at the Bolshoi

 

 

 

The composer Andrey Petrov wrote the music for the ballet based on the drawings of the popular in the Union French painter Jean Effel, whose biblical story of Adam and Eve is told in a humorous way.

‘When I studied up the musical content, it seemed to me surprisingly deep,’ the artistic director of the theatre, People's Artist of the USSR, Professor Valentin Elizariev said. ‘And I was thinking how to reveal this topic globally, giving it a universal character. How to dare and tell about humanity as a whole, about what can the future hold for it…

 

 On 7 October, Verdi’s Requiem in the production of the Moscow Music Theatre Helikon-opera will be performed at the theatre.

 

By the way, Petrov created a musical version of the production specially for the Belarusian theatre. After all, in the original it is a three-act ballet. But the composer was so inspired by Elizariev's idea that he even added some fragments. And at the premiere in Minsk in 1976, congratulating the artists and directors, Andrey Petrov could not hide his emotions and said that this performance could be called, perhaps, the most successful of all that existed at that time in the Soviet Union and abroad. The audience also thought so: every performance was sold out. An interesting story also happened on tour in Poland. After the performance at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the establishment and celebrities (as we would call them now) congratulated Valentin Elizariev. But the choreographer still remembers the words of one person. The Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla visited the performance. Smiling warmly, he went up to Elizariev, shook his hand and briefly said: ‘Thank you for God.’ Literally after a while, the cardinal was elected Pope of Rome, whom the whole world knows as John Paul II.

‘This is so symbolic, because music is aimed to comfort people and harmonize society, and harmony arises from chaos,’ Nikolai Koliadko said. He will conduct The Creation of the World on 1 October. ‘In addition, doctors have long established that good music (classical, rock or jazz) prolonging the life. Therefore, I urge everyone to listen to exceptionally good music.

 

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