November, 27 2014 The opera is staged by the director Dmitry Belyanushkin. This is the first time this opera is staged at the Bolshoi Theatre. "The Story of Kai and Gerda" is one of Banevich's best-known operas; this composer is a modern classic, who has gone down the history of the Russian theatre and cinema of the 20th - and the beginning of the 21st century, and composed music for numerous films and theatre productions. The opera was composed in the same year when the Afghan war started; it would seem that this was not the right time for a story like this one. However, it was staged at the Kirov (the Mariinsky) Theatre. The premiere was a success and the production has been performed for more than 30 years. This is the first time that "The Story of Kai and Gerda" is staged at the Bolshoi Theatre. The production team unites the young and the experienced. The set has been designed by Valery Levental; this guarantees that the audience will see some breathtaking beauty on the stage. The music director Anton Grishanin is a conductor at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre; he has conducted the ballets "Don Quixote" and "Swan Lake" at the Bolshoi. The stage director Dmitry Belyanushkin graduated from GITIS only two years ago; he has already become a winner of the International Competition for Young Opera Stage Directors "NANO-opera". Last year he presented the half-concert version of the opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" at the Bolshoi Theatre. The stage director Dmitry Belyanushkin. Photo: Damir Yusupov Mr. Belyanushkin told RIA NOVOSTI: "I have already had my first experience of working on a fairytale at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre; I have staged Christmas music production there. This time I am working on a show at the main theatre of the country. This is a true gift that anyone would dream of receiving. This is a great honor and a great responsibility, so I am trying to put all my soul into this production and to devote all my efforts to it". According to the director, a production for children should have the best music, the best cast and the best set; this is exactly the way it is being done at the Bolshoi Theatre. Mr. Belyanushkin believes that a production for children should be dynamic, both in terms of the plot and in terms of the visuals. He explained: "I base myself on what the composer has written, and my main objective is to develop the author's idea as much as it is possible. The composer's idea is slightly different than Andersen's, the author of the fairytale. This always happens; the literary text and the music text are two independent pieces". The composer got rid of some scenes and added a new character, the Lamplighter, who is the narrator. He also composed the new prologue, where the trolls start the whole intrigue. Dmitry Belyanushkin said: "Together with the set designer Mr. Levental we have come up with an unusual image of the Snow Queen; in the films she has always been represented as an unapproachable beauty, beyond the reach of anyone. We considered that she should provoke not admiration, but resentment, because her world is dead and she herself is an image of death. So our Queen will be a bit scary. W e would like our young audience to have an urge to escape from the gloomy and cold atmosphere as soon as possible and to return to their grandparents, to their city and to their warm homes; we tried to create a contrast between the cold glossy beauty and all of those things". The director also stressed that the city of Odense that was mentioned in the fairytale was not some kind of a fictional place, but rather a real city where Andersen himself lived. He mentioned: "Banevich's opera and our production are about eternal family values, about the love and care of our relatives and about good family relations - all those things that are questioned and many try to destroy today". There will be several casts; they all star beginner and experienced singers, including participants of the Bolshoi's Young Artists Opera Program, the Bolshoi Opera Company's soloists of dif ferent generations and guest vocalists. The Bolshoi Theatre presents the opera version of "The Story of Kai and Gerda" The Bolshoi Theatre has prepared a New Year's present for children - the opera "The Story of Kai and Gerda", created by the composer Sergei Banevich and based on the famous fairytale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen. RIA NOVOSTI reports that the production will premiere on November 28th on the Bolshoi's New Stage. The production is staged by Dmitry Belyanushkin. This is the first time this opera is staged at the Bolshoi Theatre. The production team unites the young and the experienced. The set has been created by the theatre designer Valery Levental. The music director Anton Grishanin is a conductor at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich- Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre; he has conducted the ballets "Don Quixote" and "Swan Lake" at the Bolshoi. DW presents: Tugan Sokhiev and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester In the beginning of October it was announced that Tugan Sokhiev, the Bolshoi Theatre's new chief conductor, would stop working in Berlin in 2016. Maestro Sokhiev has been the chief conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester since 2012. Alexander Steinbeiss, the director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, said in his interview with Deutsche Welle: "Those tasks that maestro Sokhiev signed up for in Moscow, turned out to be more audacious than he had thought at first. However, it does not mean that our cooperation will cease to exist at all. The Berlin audience loves and appreciates Sokhiev's programs". T ugan Sokhiev and his orchestra presented one such memorable programs during the Musikfest Berlin, on September 16th 2014. The concert opened the season of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. The program included Introduction and Allegro by Robert Schumann, and the Piano Concerto by the same composer, performed by a young French pianist Frédéric Neuburge, as well as the piece "Seven Fragments for the Orchestra" (in memory of R. Schumann) by Aribert Reimann, the composer, who lives in Berlin. "Orchestral Suite No. 3" by P. Tchaikovsky was performed in the second part of the concert. The concert was dedicated to the memory of the great conductor Lorin Maazel, who used to be the artistic director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester) from 1964 till 1975, and who passed away in summer. The concert will be broadcast on the radio "Orpheus" (99,2 FM in Moscow and "Orpheus" radio waves in other Russian cities) on November 29th at 8 p.m. (Moscow time). Besides, the concert will be broadcast in the Internet on the radio "Orpheus"s website: http://.muzcentrum.ru/orfeus/live/ Mass media about the Theatre Newsletter

Guerlain introduces new a fragrance "LE BOLSHOГЏ Black Swan" The cooperation of Guerlain perfume and make-up and the Bolshoi Theatre continues. Guerlain perfume and make-up has been the Bolshoi Theatre's official partner since 2007; traditionally, each year before Christmas it has introduced a new fragrance to mark this cooperation. This time l'eau de parfum is called "LE BOLSHOГЏ Black Swan" - to mark the 175th anniversary of P. I. Tchaikovsky. This new fragrance also marks the start of the 239th season at the Bolshoi that opened with the ballet "Swan Lake". The fragrance has sandalwood, jasmine tea, white musk and citrus. The new l'eau de parfum "LE BOLSHOГЏ Black Swan" is presented in the historic Guerlain bottle, which was designed by Gabriel Guerlain in 1908 for the fragrance "Jicky". It looks like an old apothecary jar and is decorated with the label, which has the image of the Bolshoi Theatre, the golden cord and the black sprayer. For articles published 25 November 2014 Japanese newspapers including the Kobe Shimbun continue to report about the Bolshoi Ballet's tour of Japan. Many newspapers including the Daily Telegraph (UK) and the Canberra Times (Australia) announce the transmissions of Bolshoi Ballet performances in local cinemas. The publication The Conversation reports that so-called event cinema has exploded. When once there was just the Metropolitan Opera at the movie theater, now there's the Bolshoi Ballet, concerts from One Direction and a steady stream of English plays. Other brands jumping in include The Royal Ballet, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Monty Python and the Big Apple Circus. Movie patrons can even enjoy museum exhibitions, like one on Pompeii from the British Museum. The Guardian (UK) ballet critic Luke Jennings writes in his blog about story ballets and what makes a great story ballet that continues to be performed for centuries like Swan Lake. Nice Rendevous writes about the upcoming Monaco Dance Forum from 13 to 31 December 2014 that will include the Company of the Monte Carlo Ballet. The Monaco Dance Forum and the Princess Grace Academy will offer an exceptional program with the highlight of the programme being the legendary Bolshoi Ballet Theatre who will play The Taming of the Shrew, choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot. "Interview": Boris Rudak and Anna Aglatova are talking about the opera "The Story of Kai and Gerda" on the TV Channel "Moscow 24" http://.m24.ru/videos/67445?attempt=1 The children's opera "The Story of Kai and Gerda" by Sergei Banevich will premiere on the Bolshoi Theatre New Stage on November 28th. This is a story about friendship, devotion and pure teen-age romance. In their interview for the TV Channel "Moscow 24" the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists Boris Rudak (Kai) and Anna Aglatova (Gerda) talked about how difficult it was to act in an opera for children and how the plot of the production was different from the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen. Anton Savichev, the Bolshoi Ballet's soloist, celebrated his birthday on November 26th. We wish the dancer success in his creative career and all the best! Anton Savichev. A photo from the dancer's personal archives The Bolshoi Theatre's soloists Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Rodkin together with Evgeny Afanasiev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Japan, after the performance of "Swan Lake". Tokyo, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, November 24th. Photo courtesy: Terasawa https:// http:// November, 27 2014 Bolshoi Theatre in the Internet Newsletter

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In brief Buryatia mass media: The Ulan-Ude Opera Theatre will organize three concerts, starring artists from Moscow The Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater will celebrate its 75th anniversary. According to the Minister of Culture Timur Tsybikov, the theatre will mark this date with three gala concerts, starring opera and ballet stars from Moscow. The concerts will take place on November 27th, 28th and 29th. /…/ The audience will hear soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre and other leading theatre artists of Russia, as well as the Mongolian State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Almaty mass media: The Bolshoi Theatre's soloists will perform in Almaty According to the official website of the Republic Palace concert hall, two concerts of "Russian and World Opera Stars", starring the Bolshoi Theatre's soloists, will be organized on December 12th as a part of celebration of the Independence Day at the Republic Palace. Oleg Kulko (tenor), Pyotr Migunov (bass), Anna Nechaeva (soprano) and Svetlana Shilova (mezzo-soprano) will take part in the matinee performance. The artists, accompanied by the Marat Bisengaliev Orchestra, will perform a medley of popular melodies. The orchestra will be conducted by Igor Razumovsky, an Honored Artist of Russia and the chief conductor of The Kremlin Ballet Theatre, directed by A. Liepa. /…/ Novosibirsk Oblast administration will partially finance the production of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" The premiere is scheduled for May 10th; the Bolshoi Theatre's prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova will perform the main role on the opening night Svetlana Zakharova in the ballet"Sleeping Beauty" at the Bolshoi Theatre. Archives. IT AR-T ASS/Alexander Kurov The governor of the region Vladimir Gorodetsky told journalists on Tuesday that city administration was going to support the production of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. The governor said: "Even though there is no money in the budget for this production, we are looking for an opportunity to help the theatre finance this project. We will solve this issue in a week or in ten days at the most, because we are pressed for time". He did not specify what sum of money the administration was going to provide the theatre with, but mentioned that two years ago 40 mln rubles (approx. $909,090) from the city budget had been spent on the production of the ballet "The Nutcracker". Mr. Gorodetsky added: "The production of "Sleeping Beauty" will be at least as grandiose, as "The Nutcracker", which has already become a significant event in the cultural life of Russia". The premiere of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" is scheduled for May 10th. The Bolshoi Theatre's prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova will perform the main role on the opening night. The same Italian team that created the set and the costumes for "The Nutcracker" - the legendary Italian designers Ezio Frigerio and Franca Squarciapino - is working on the set and the costumes for "Sleeping Beauty". According to the Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre, there have been 36 performances of the ballet "The Nutcracker" since December 2013; the audience hall was 99,91% full. 60 thousand people have watched the production; the revenue constituted 33.3 mln rubles (approx.$ 750,000).