Perm Opera and Ballet Theater in the new season will present seven premieres

The plans for the new season of the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after P.I. Tchaikovsky Four ballet and three opera premieres, including the production of Romeo Castelcucci, Alexei Ratmansky, Alexei Miroshnichenko and Vincent Dumla.

According to the theater’s press service, the 146th season in the Perm opera will open “Swan Lake”-the performance of the ballet version updated in 2015 will be held on August 30 and 31, the first premiere-the children's performance “Osminog Sad” in the production of Maria Litvinova and Vyacheslav Ignatov-will be held in November.

The first ballet premiere of the season will be the play “Asander” (“to parts”) to the music of Wagner and Chopin in the production of the Spanish choreographer Goyo Montero. The world premiere of the play will be held on November 13, 14 and 19 at the Context festival of modern choreography. Diana Vishneva . In December , ASUNDER will be shown in Perm - one evening with the renewed ballet of William Forsyt “The Second Detail” (“second detail”).

Before the New Year, the Nutcracker ballet will be presented in the author’s version of the chief choreographer of theater Alexei Miroshnichenko, and in March, the ballet of Leonid Pratnikov “Opera” in the production of Alexei Ratmansky will be transferred to the stage of the Perm Theater. The world premiere of ballet took place in 2014 in La Scala.

A series of opera prime minister will open in March the master of “Phaeton” by Jean-Batista Lully in the production of director Benjamin Lazar and the artistic director and conductor of the Le Poème Harmonique ensemble, Vincent Dumlack. The performance is being prepared in cooperation with the theater department of the Versailles Palace. A consolidated orchestra consisting of Le Poème Harmonique and Musicaeterna , and the international composition of soloists will take part in it.

The premiere of the oratorio of Artyur Onegger “Jeanne at the stake” will open the International Diaghilev Festival - 2018. The performance will be staged by Italian director Romeo Castelcucci. The play "Jeanne at the stake" was created in collaboration with the Lyon opera.

Also in the preliminary program of the XII International Diaghilev Festival, which will be held in Perm from June 14 to 24 , 2018, the choreographic production of Alena Payer Nicht SHLAFEN (“Do not sleep”), the performance of the Gente Grandelavoix ensemble. At the closure of the festival performed by the festival orchestra under the leadership of Theodore Curentzis, the works of Maler will sound - the fourth symphony and songs from the cycle “The Magic Horn of the Boy”.

In October, the Musicaeterna orchestra, under the control of Theodore Kurentsis, will perform the first symphony of Prokofiev, also in October in Petrmi will present a concert version of the Opera of Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila performed by soloists of the opera troupe, opera choir, chorus and the large symphonic orchestra of the theater under the direction of Andrei Danilova. In the spring, the concert version of the Opera-Oratorios of Stravinsky “Tsar-Edip” will be performed by the Great Symphony Orchestra led by the main conductor of the theater Valery Platonov.

At the end of December, Musicaeterna and Theodore Krentzis will go to a large Russian tour - the musicians will perform the seventh Shostakovich symphony in Perm, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. In November, the ballet troupe of the theater will go to Bahrain, where he will perform at the National Theater with Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet.

In addition, in September, the “Laboratory of the Modern Spectator” will continue to work, in November - the Opera Extreme project. As part of the new project, “Legends of the Perm Theater”, concerts and creative evenings dedicated to artists who worked in the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater will be held. In April 2018, an open Russian competition of artists of the Ballet named after Ekaterina Maksimova “Arabesk” will be held, whose artistic director and chairman of the jury is the legendary dancer of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Vasiliev.