2020 / 2021 Main Hall the 8th Season
10 February * Wednesday * 7.00 pm
Aram Khachaturian
“SPARTACUS”
Ballet in 3 acts
PRODUCTION GROUP:
Choreographer – Yury Grigorovich, People’s Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the State Prizes
Set and Costume Designer – Simon Virsaladze, People’s Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the State Prizes
Conductor – Arman Urazgaliyev
Production Coordinator and Assistant Choreographer – Ruslan Pronin, Honoured artist of Russia
Assistant Choreographer – Oksana Tsvetnitskaya
Revival Designer – Mikhail Sapozhnikov
Revival Costume Designers – Lyudmila Ius / Elena Netsvetaeva-Dolgaleva
Lighting Designer – Alexey Perevalov
Artistic Director of the Ballet Company – Altynai Asylmuratova, Honoured Artist of Russia
Chief Choirmaster – Yerzhan Dautov, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
In December 1941, during the most tragic days of the Great Patriotic War, a distinguished Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian started creating ballet “Spartacus”. According to the composer, the heroic image of Spartacus and the idea of the rebellion of the slaves in the ancient Rome had a great meaning: “It is important that people know and remember the names of those who at the dawn of human history rose boldly to struggle for freedom and independence.
The monumental ballet “Spartacus” is truly a poem about the struggle with invasion and oppressive forces, about tragic irreversibility of evil and the immortality of the heroic deed.
The premiere of “Spartacus” was held at the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Kirov (Mariinsky) on December 27, 1956 in the production of one of the most outstanding choreographers of the soviet times Leonid Yakobson.
In 1968 in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre a new production of “Spartacus” was made by a master of the soviet ballet, Yury Grigorovich. It differed from the Yakobson’s production in deeper psychologism and tragic tension. Impeccable and outstanding was the work of the set and costumes designer Simon Virsaladze. Ballet “Spartacus” is an example of the highest synthesis of music, choreography and painting.
In the music of “Spartacus”, one of the best Khachaturian’s works embodied the most striking features of his oeuvre: catchy and memorable images, splendid and brilliant crowd scenes, original melodies, in which European traits are harmoniously combined with oriental intonations.
For many decades the immortal ballet “Spartacus” has been a jewel of the repertoire of many world theatres.
ROLES AND PERFORMERS
Spartacus – Bakhtiyar ADAMZHAN, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
Phrygia – Aigerim BEKETAYEVA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan
Crassus – Arman URAZOV
Aegina – Adelina TULEPOVA
Running time: 3 hours (including two intervals)
