
Cesare Pugni

Alexander Glazunov

to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Alfred Shnitke, Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam

Leo Delibes

to music by Anatoly Korolyov

Aram Khachaturyan

Alexander Glazunov

Yuri Krasavin

Ludwig Minkus

Georges Bizet–Rodion Shchedrin

Joby Talbot
Sergei Prokofiev

to music by Sergei Prokofiev

Arif Melikov

to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Ilya Demutsky

to music by Frederic Chopin

to music by Valery Gavrilin

Adolphe Adam

Ludvig Minkus, Edouard Deldevez

Ludwig Minkus

to music by Alfred Schnitke and Milko Lazar


Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Herman Severin Levenskiold
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Yuri Krasavin

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Yuri Krasavin


La Sylphide is a ballet of a splendid but complicated fate. Its premiere was held on the 12th of March 1832 in Paris at the Academie royale de musique et danse. The performance, which told the story of an immortal daughter of air who was destroyed by her love for a peasant, became a reaction by dance people towards romanticism. It involved precise stylisation of symbols and was vivid as never before, even though it emerged quite late. The main part was created by choreographer Philippo Taglioni for his daughter Maria. She was unattractive and had an awkward round-shoulder figure. Her appearance was totally unsuitable for the images of female characters for the then prevailing “anacreontic” ballets, which demanded the forms and grace of antique statues from ballerinas.
Premiered on February 20, 2008.
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Friday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Friday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Act I
A Scottish manor house.
It is the morning of James’s marriage to Effie and he is asleep in his armchair. A winged figure, a Sylphide, is kneeling by his side. She kisses him on his forehead and he wakes up confused. Entranced by the vision of the Sylph, he attempts to capture her, but she escapes him; as she reaches the fireplace, she vanishes up the chimney. Troubled, he wakes his companions but none of them have seen her. Gurn, James’s rival, arrives and learns that James is infatuated with someone other than Effie.