Kirill Molchanov
Guiseppe Verdi
to music by Edvard Grieg
Giuseppe Verdi
Vladimir Soltan
Johann Strauss
Mark Zhirkov, Genrik Litinsky
Cesare Pugni
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Alexey Shor
Giuseppe Verdi
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Alexander Borodin
Boris Eifman’s ballet Anna Karenina is a true burst of inner psychological energy and is amazingly precise in delivering emotional impact upon its viewers. By setting aside all secondary storylines in Leo Tolstoy’s novel, the choreographer focused on the love triangle “Anna – Karenin – Vronsky”.
Using dance language, Boris Eifman in his ballet managed to portray the drama of a woman being reborn. According to the choreographer, it is the love passion, the “basic instinct” which has led the heroine to the breach of the then current norms of social morality, killed motherly love in Anna Karenina and destroyed her inner world. Being so completely consumed and crushed by passion, a woman is ready for any sacrifice.
The choreographer says that his ballet speaks not of previous times but of today: the timeless emotional content of the performance and obvious parallels to reality can’t leave the contemporary viewer indifferent. The brilliant technical mastery of the Company’s dancers and Boris Eifman’s astounding choreography present to us in a remarkably impressive way all the aspects and peripeteias of the Tolstoy’s novel.
Premiered on March 31, 2005.
Presented with one interval.
Sunday, 19:00
Sunday, 12:00
Saturday, 19:00