The leadership of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater shared plans

In the new season, the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater as a whole will prefer opera performances, and 2014 will open a loud ballet premiere.

This was on the air of the Echo Perm radio station was told by the theater General Manager Mark de Moni .

“We are now a little more focused on opera premieres, it turned out, although the ballet does not go into the background, it remains the same equal partner of the opera. - said Mark de Moni. - We are opening the Romeo and Juliet season, of course, this is the premiere of last year. And the first opera premiere at the end of September is traditionally, this is the operal of Persella "Queen of the Indians" . "

In the fall, a series of concert performances of operas will begin, including Wagner operas: “We want to put the beginning of a new tradition of concert performing operas.”

The general manager of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater also said that Jerome Robbins would be resumed by the end of the year, a license will be extended to him.

In early 2014, a large -scale ballet premiere was appointed in the theater - “Blue Bird and Princess Florin”. “This is our choreographer Alexei Miroshnichenko took the plot from the“ sleeping beauty ”and made the installation of music, a full -fledged three -shaking ballet in the style of a late Petipa,” explained Mark de Moni.

In addition, he said that the Arabesk ballet contest will be held in April, and the deadlines for the 2014 Diaghilev Festival will move at the end of June. At the festival, the world premiere of the New Opera Nosferata Dmitry Kurlandsky, written by order of the theater and his artistic leaders, the Theodore Kurentzis will be held.

The transfer of the Diaghilev festival is explained by the fact that at the end of May the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater plans to submit a new production of Tchaikovsky - the transfer of the performance, which was created in 2012 by Kurentsis and Peter Selhars in the Madrid Royal Theater. The repertoire of the Perm Theater will also include the Stravinsky Opera Opera Persephone, also staged by Kurentsis and Sellarus in Madrid.