Cinderella. Premiere

On 6 July, the production team led by the People's Artist of the country Kanstantsin Kuzniatsou and the Honoured Artist of the Republic Yuliya Dziatko will present the premiere of Sergey Prokofiev’s Cinderella. Th production will be performed at 11:00 and 18:00 this day.

One of Charles Perrault's most famous and beloved fairy tales, about a hardworking girl who, despite everything, managed to find her true love, inspired composers of different times to create their works. Perhaps one of the most famous operas belongs to the genius Gioacchino Rossini. If we are talking about the ballet Cinderella, then since the middle of the XIX century, many composers have addressed this magical theme. The Spaniard Fernando Sor was the first one.

In the 1940s, the parable of kindness and cordiality, which must be rewarded, inspired the Russian genius Sergey Prokofiev. And in November 1945, the premiere of the ballet Cinderella took place on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (choreography by Rostislav Zakharov). Further, the ballet was staged by Konstantin Sergeyev (St Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre), Frederick Ashton (London, Birmingham Ballet), Oleg Vinogradov (Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre), Maguy Marin (Opéra de Lyon), Rudolf Nureyev (Opéra de Paris), Vladimir Vasiliev (Moscow, Kremlin Ballet), etc.

On the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, the first production of Prokofiev's Cinderella was performed in 1965 (conductor Tatyana Kolomiitseva, choreographer Rostislav Zakharov and designer Evgeniy Chemodurov). Belarusian ballet stars Lyudmila Brzhozovskaya, Nina Davydenko, Alevtina Korzenkova, Klara Malysheva, Lidia Ryazhenova, Valery Mironov, Vladimir Glinskikh, Yury Trayan and others appeared in the leading roles.

In 2009, 44 years later,  choreographer Yuri Puzakov presented his vision of Cinderella (conductor Viktor Ploskina, designer Alexander Kostyuchenko).  Olga Gaiko, Maryna Vezhnavets, Irina Eromkina, Lyudmila Khitrova, Ekaterina Oleinik, Anton Kravchenko, Anna Fokina, Tatsiana Ulasen, Victoria Trenkina and many others performed the leading roles. The last time this production was performed in June 2022.

And on 6 July 2024, choreographers the People's Artist of Belarus Kanstantsin Kuzniatsou and the Honoured Artist of the Republic Yuliya Dziatko will present their version of the fairy tale story about Cinderella. The production team includes: musical director Yuri Karavaev, set designers the People's Artist of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Okunev and Lyubov Sidelnikova, costume designer Vyacheslav Okunev, lighting designer Evgenii Lisitsyn, computer graphics designer Pavel Suvorov.

The production will feature the People's Artists of the country Irina Eromkina, Anton Kravchenko, the Honoured Artists of the Republic of Belarus Lyudmila Khitrova, Maryna Vezhnavets, Yury Kavaliou, Nadzeya Filipava, as well as Konstantin Belokhvostik, Alina Rudenko, Elizaveta Musorina, Denis Shpak, Vladimir Ruda, Andrey Bariev, Tatsiana Ulasen, Diana Bagatova, Anastasia Yurkevich, Alexei Boiarinov, Mikhail Boroznov, etc.