Congratulations on the Premiere!

Congratulations to the production team led by Valentin Elizariev and dear audience on the fact that Don Quixote has returned to the calendar of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus!

Ludwig Minkus’ Don Quixote is one of the most popular classical ballets in the whole theatrical world, one can say, a kind of bestseller. Almost every ballet company of the leading theatres tends to have it in its calendar. And the audience is always happy to meet the heroes of this production. On the stage of the Belarusian Bolshoi, it was staged six times. On 24 March, the audience saw the seventh version. A cheerful, light, incendiary story of two lovers Kitri and Basil came to life in new scenery and new costumes.

For the first time Don Quixote was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in 1941, then in 1947, 1952, 1962, 1979. The 1989 production (the artistic director is Valentin Elizariev) was performed on the Belarusian stage until recently.

The production team of the premiere includes: choreographer, libretto co–author, the People's Artist of the USSR and Belarus, artistic director of the theatre Valentin Elizariev, conductor, the Honoured Artist of the Republic of Belarus Nikolai Koliadko, the People's Artist of Russia Vyacheslav Okunev (sets, costumes, lighting design concept) and lighting designer Nina Ivankina. The choreography of Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky, Kasyan Goleizovsky, Valentin Elizariev is intertwined in the ballet.

On 24 March, the premiere of Don Quixote featured: Liudmila Khitrova, Dmitry Uksusnikov, Elizaveta Musorina, Andrey Bariev, Diana Bagatova, Anton Kravchenko, Vladislav Rudenko, Kanstantsin Kuzniatsou, Anastasia Yareschenko, etc.

On 25 March, Irina Eromkina, Alexander Misiyuk, Maryna Vezhnavets, Yury Kavaliou, Diana Bagatova, Kirill Furman, Vladislav Rudenko, Kanstantsin Kuzniatsou, Tatsiana Ulasen and others performed on the stage.

Nikolai Koliadko conducted two evenings in a row.