The Bolshoi Theater suffers the premiere of the ballet "Nureyev" from 2018 to 2017

The Bolshoi Theater intends to release Kirill Serebrennikov’s ballet “Nureyev” until the end of this year, despite the home arrest of the director and previously identified problems with the readiness of the performance, said Gabt Director Vladimir Urin.

“I submitted a petition and was one of the first to advocate that Kirill Serebrennikov had the opportunity to work on performances at the Gogol Center and we have a large one. And our desire to take place“ Nureyev ”this year,“ invariably, ”Urina RIA Novosti quoted.

Recall that the ballet about the brilliant dancer was to be the last premiere of the 241st season of the Bolshoi Theater. However, three days before the first show, the performance was canceled . Urin later said that due to the unpreparedness of the premiere’s corps de ballet, he was transferred to May 2018. The decision of the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater was a scandal and numerous assumptions about the true reasons for the decision of Urina. Gabt CEO in his statements repeatedly emphasized that the artistic solution of the performance would remain unchanged.

Currently, director Kirill Serebrennikov, by decision of the Basmanny Court, is under house arrest. According to Urin, the question of the new date of the premiere of Nureev was to decide at a meeting with Serebrennikov in September.

“Excessive attention and hype now around Cyril, it seems to me that it only interferes with the case. Therefore, prankers appear that earn authority on this, provocative letters appear. It seems to me that we need to do everything that is necessary, but calmly and from the inside,” he said.

The ballet about the ingenious dancer who in 1961 asked for political asylum in Paris was supposed to become more surreal, and not a documentary retelling of Nureev’s biography.

One of the main plots of the performance is the relationship of Nureyev and Danish dancer Eric Brun ongoing for several decades.

Work on the creation of ballet took two years. In the libretto of Nureev, covering the thirty-year period of the life of a dancer and choreographer, from the 1960s to the 1990s, the hero’s personal life is paid no less attention than his professional career. The Kirov Theater, flight to America, partnership and an affair with Prima-Balerina Royal Opera London Margot Fontein, numerous ties with men, Paris of Paris of the 1980s. The performance used archival materials, letters to Nureev Margot Fontaine, Natalia Makarova, Alla Osipenko. Parties of letters, lyrical digressions in the ballet are performed by Svetlana Zakharova and Vyacheslav Lopatin. The Nureyev parties are performed by Artem Ovcharenko, Vladislav Lantratov, Igor Zvirko.