HELIKON WIIL HOST THE TOUR OF KRASNOYARSK STATE OPERA AND BALLET THEATRE
Jacques Offenbach's opera buffa Barbe-bleue will open the tour on 9 of July, it’s a sparkling musical comedy directed by Sergei Novikov. In the Krasnoyarsk version this is a romantic story tailored on the patterns of hit movies with Julia Roberts' heroines. Barbe-bleue is a spectacle about love and dreams, during the performance the audience can switch to Offenbach's musical humor and to the youth energy of Krasnoyarsk opera masters. Only a theater with an ensemble of not just vocalists, but also young singer-actors can afford such an experiment.
On 11 of July a genuine exclusive will be presented to the Moscow audience – Alexander Tchaikovsky's epic opera Ermak, directed by Georgiy Isaakyan. It was written specifically by order of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater. The entire story is based on real events, the writing by Vasily Surikov of the picture The Conquest of Siberia by Ermak. The action takes place in three time layers, historical figures appear on the stage: Khan Kuchum, Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Tsarina Maria Nagaya, Barons Stroganov, Nicholas II, Gilyarovsky, Leo Tolstoy… The world premiere of the opera in 2019 closed the 41st theater season and became a real event in the cultural life of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The Krasnoyarsk company will show the ballet to the music of modern composers Catharsis of Dante at the Helikon-opera twice - on 12 and 13 of July. This symbolic story of the formation of the soul of a man and a poet is told by means of the classical modern dance. Dante moves in a semi-dark space: he has a dream in which he sees himself in different incarnations and worlds. Dante's consciousness consists of eight parts, eight heroes; these are both his identities and his antagonists. The soul is formed in the battle of these inner opposites. The artistic director of the performance is choreographer and teacher Nikita Dmitrievsky. Creating this ballet he acted as the author of the idea, stage-director, choreographer, set and lighting designer, he also worked on the selection of fragments of which the musical series of the performance consist.
The tour of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and Rosconcert within under the federal program "Big Tours", TASS is the general media partner.