NOVAT presents
NOVAT presents
NOVAT presents
Rostov State Opera and Ballet presents
Rostov State Opera and Ballet presents
The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
Rostov State Opera and Ballet production
The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
The Kasatkina and Vasilyov State Academic Classical Ballet Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre production with participation of the Bolshoi Theatre Chorus & Orchestra
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre production with participation of the Bolshoi Theatre Chorus & Orchestra and Bolshoi Opera Company Soloists on some days
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Mariinsky Theatre presents
Leonid Gatov Krasnodar creative association “Premiere” presents
Gombozhar Tsydynzhapov Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre production
Mariinsky Theatre (Primorsky Stage) production
Zazerkalye Saint Petersburg State Children’s Music Theatre production
Zazerkalye Saint Petersburg State Children’s Music Theatre production
Zazerkalye Saint Petersburg State Children’s Music Theatre production
Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre production
Alisher Navoiy Bolshoi Theatre of the Republic of Uzbekistan production
Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko presents
Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after A. Solovyanenko presents
Vladimir Odoyevsky called the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila a magnificent flower that had grown in Russian musical soil. Glinka’s score is laden with musical treats just like the tables at the princely feast in Act I. The composer’s imagination, given flight by the genius of Pushkin, came up with one superb melody after another, it created hitherto unknown chords and it suggested the original decisions as to the orchestration.
Premiere of this production: 2 May 1994.
The performance has three intervals.
Libretto by Mikhail Glinka with the participation of Konstantin Bakhturin, Alexander Shakhovskoy, Valerian Shirkov, Mikhail Gedeonov, Nestor Kukolnik and Nikolai Markevich after the poem by Alexander Pushkin
Decorations are restored from the 1904 version of the performance by Alexander Golovin and Konstantin Korovin
Choreography by Michel Fokine, 1917 production
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich
Principal Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 18:00
Friday, 18:00
Thursday, 18:00
Wednesday, 18:00
Act I
At the court of Svetozar, Prince of Kiev, celebrations are in progress before the marriage of his daughter, Lyudmila, to Ruslan, a warrior. The Bayan (a minstrel) sings of the trials in store for Ruslan, though he predicts the victory of true love. Nostalgically, Lyudmila bids farewell to her parent’s home, and consoles her unsuccessful suitors, the eastern prince Ratmir and the Varangian warrior Farlaf. Suddenly all darkens: when light is restored, Lyudmila has vanished.
Svetozar promises her hand and half his kingdom to the one who rescues her.