Astana-Minsk

The premiere of Adolphe Adam’s ballet took place on 28 June 1841 at the Academy of Music and Dance in Paris. From that moment Giselle was an unprecedented success. Already in 1842, the production was staged in St. Petersburg by the French choreographer Antoine Titus Dauchy (Titus). Then Giselle was performed in London, Milan, Boston. But, perhaps, it was Marius Petipa who created such verson of the ballet for the Mariinsky Theatre in 1884 that he is still rightfully considered the third author of Giselle’s choreography (after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrault).

In May 2022, the principal ballet master of the theatre Igor Kolb presented to the artistic council his vision of Adolphe Adam’s Giselle.

On 29 January, young soloists of the Astana Opera Anastasia Zaklinskaya and Dias Kurmangazy (Kazakhstan) will perform the title roles in Adolphe Adam’s Giselle.

Anastasia Zaklinskaya graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (St. Petersburg) and joined the ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in 2013. In 2016, she joined the ballet company of the Astana Opera (Kazakhstan). Her repertoire includes: Zarema in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai by Boris Asafiev, Esmeralda in the eponymous ballet by Cesare Pugni, the Street Dancer in Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, Zobeide in Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, etc.
Dias Kurmangazy has joined the company of the Astana Opera since 2019, as soon as he graduated from the choreographic school in Almaty. But he already received a warm applause for the small but character roles in the ballets The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Coppélia, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai. Also his repertoire includes the roles of Rothbart in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Albrecht in Adam’s Giselle.

Both Anastasia Zaklanskaya and Dias Kurmangazy successfully performed on the stages of other theatres as part of the Astana Opera tour. The Belarusian audience will see young artists from Kazakhstan for the first time.