Classical Ballet Spartacus (ballet in 3 acts) World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera - established 1783
Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes
The performance has 2 intermissions
Schedule for Spartacus (ballet in 3 acts) 2022
Composer: Aram Khachaturian Lighting Designer: Alexander Naumov Designer: Valentina Khodasevich Choreography: Leonid Yakobson Production design: Sergei Grachev Revival Designer: Batozhan Dashitsyrenov
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Classical Ballet in 3 acts
World premiere: 27 December 1956, Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Mariinsky), Leningrad, USSR
Premiere of this production: 1 July 2010, Mariinsky Theatre, St Peterburg
Revival of the original 1956 production
Music by Aram Khachaturian Choreography by Leonid Yakobson
Sets
by Valentina Khodasevich Revival Designers: Batozhan
Dashitsyrenov & Sergei Grachev Lighting
Designer: Nikolai Naumov Costume Designer: Irina
Korovina Coach: Vyacheslav
Khomyakov
Spartacus, or Spartak, is a ballet by Aram
Khachaturian (1903-1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader
of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War,
although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical
record. Khachaturian composed the ballet in 1954, and for this was awarded a
Lenin Prize that year. It was first staged, with choreography by Leonid
Yakobson, in Leningrad 1956, but only with qualified success since Yakobson
abandoned conventional pointe in his choreography. The ballet received its first
staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1958, choreographed by Igor Moiseev;
however it was the 1968 production, choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich, which
achieved the greatest acclaim for the ballet. It remains one of Khachaturian's
best known works and is prominent within the repertoires of the Bolshoi Theatre
and other ballet companies in Russia and the former Soviet Union
On the two January Sundays at the Mariinsky Theatre we are
presenting ballets choreographed by Leonid Yakobson:
Shurale and Spartacus. Since the middle of last century,
for decades, both performances were among the most popular and beloved ones
in the ballet repertory of our theater. Over the last seasons, these
performances have been carefully restored, and a number of young
ballet artists of the Mariinsky Theatre took a great interest
to learn the new for them style and roles of the main characters,
enriched with a great drama, theatricality generous and sincerely
expressive with respect to what is being called simple human feelings.
Choreography by Leonid Yakobson features a combination of dance,
drama and pantomime. It has a careful attitude to the era
of storytelling and original details of plots. Revival of these
ballets represents one of the most important periods in the
development of the Mariinsky Ballet in the 20th century and their
popularity these days proves that they have stood the test of time and now
they are once again in the repertoire of the Mariinsky
Theatre.
Schedule for Spartacus (ballet in 3 acts) 2022
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