Bolshoi Theatre • Ruslan and Lyudmila

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Premiere

Ruslan and Lyudmila

About the performance

Premiere of this production at the Mariinsky Theatre: 2 May 1994.

Will be premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre on 30 October 2024.

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

Music Director

Valery Gergiev

Stage Director

Lotfi Mansouri

Set Designer

Thierry Bosquet

Lighting Designer

Vladimir Lukasevich

Chief Chorus Master

Valery Borisov

Decorations are restored from the 1904 version of the performance by Alexander Golovin and Konstantin Korovin

Choreography by Michel Fokine, 1917 production

Set and costumes provided by the Mariinsky Theatre

Cast

31 October

2024

Thursday, 18:00

30 October

2024

Wednesday, 18:00

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Please note that cast is subject to change

Synopsis

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.

Schedule and tickets

Date

Tickets

Price

Time

30 October

Wednesday

18:00

31 October

Thursday

18:00

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — TBank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM