the First performance of season 6, 8 and 10 September will be the Verdi Opera “don Carlos” featuring guest star Anna Netrebko, Ildar Abdrazakov, Yusif Eyvazov, and soloists of Agenda Kulevoy and Elchin Azizov, and the place of the conductor is Anton Grishanin. The first ballet performance will take place on September 12, it will be “don Quixote” by Minkus in choreographic version by Alexei Fadeyechev, who will be charitable and dedicated to the physicians, on whose shoulders fell the most difficult and responsible mission to fight the epidemic.
Total planned 7 3 Opera and ballet premieres. They all take place in the second half of the season to the first part of the year to unload, as artists, after the fact, the semi-quarantine pause the already very difficult to get back into shape. And of course, in order for the first few months to minimize contact during rehearsals, especially requires a new statement.
Just learned that in the process of planned testing of employees is Large (as in the theater more than three thousand people) revealed several cases of coronavirus infection.
fortunately, all cases are frivolous and all necessary precautions are taken: cases and contact with them went to the quarantine. Nothing threatens neither the lives nor the intended creative team.
In an open letter to the staff, especially Vladimir urin said: “the Virus is not yet defeated. The seriousness of the threat we have to understand. The danger, unfortunately, went nowhere. Therefore, to get started, I ask all of you a very responsible attitude to all the security measures… We can’t do remotely, and… I ask all employees of the Bolshoi theater to show the maximum consciousness.”
it is Important to note that everything that Great theatre does not have time to implement due to the epidemiological situation in the previous extremely shortened season, will be implemented in the next two years. So, moved on this season, not earlier premiere: December 18, three one-act ballets “Dancemania” Vyacheslav Samodurov, “the seasons” by Artemiy Belyakov, “Made in Big” Anton Pimonov. 6-8 may on the Chamber stage “the Diary of Anne Frank” Gregory Frida, White rose Udo Zimmermann, and December 3-6, “the pearl fishers” by Georges Bizet.
Among the Premier of the new season of Opera Salome by Richard Strauss staged one of the most famous Directors of our time Claus Guth. This co-production with the Metropolitan theater. The premiere will be held at the Historic stage on 25 February 2021. In the title role, Anna Netrebko. The first singer in the world will also be the main heroine of the premiere of “Tosca” by Puccini that will be shown on the New stage of the April 22, directed by Italian filmmaker and artist Stefano Poda.
a continuation of the Baroque lines in the framethouars theatre New stage will present Handel’s Opera Ariodante in a production by David Alden, who has worked in Big on the play “Billy Budd”. In June on the Historical stage of the planned premiere of Tchaikovsky’s “Mazeppa” in the direction of Yevgeny Pisarev and stage design Zinoviy Margolin, conductor Tugan Sokhiev.
But before the fall, on the stage of the Bolshoi theater festival will be held for the 180th anniversary of Tchaikovsky. Will show “Sleeping beauty”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Queen of spades”, “Swan lake”, “Nutcracker”, “Iolanta”. Also in the festival program will include a performance of “the Slippers” on the Chamber stage. A special event will be a concert by baritone Igor golovatenco and Alla Demidova “Tchaikovsky in letters and romances”. Tchaikovsky’s music will be performed at the concerts of the soloists, musicians, and participants of the Youth Opera program of the theatre the Beethoven hall.
In the current April there was a performance of Placido Domingo in “La Traviata”. But the legendary musician on the eve of his 80th birthday promises to come in October to conduct Puccini’s Opera “Manon Lescaut” and, together with fellow colleagues to perform in the gala concert with orchestra of the Bolshoi theatre.
this season the team is Large will celebrate several significant anniversaries. In November, the festival will be dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Vladimir Vasiliev, and 20 November, the day of the 95th anniversary of Maya Plisetskaya Plisetskaya, will be held the evening of memory of the great ballerina.
All new performances that will appear in the ballet poster will be created specifically for the Bolshoi theatre and will be world premieres. Artistic Director of ballet Zurich Christian Spuck put the ballet “Orlando” to the music of Antonin Dvorak and max Richter. And Yuri Posokhov will put “the Seagull.” The music for the play by order of the theater says Ilya Demutsky. A new face in this creative ensemble will be directed by Alexander Molochnikov.
Another important event in the world of ballet would become an international ballet competition of Yuri Grigorovich, which will be held from 5 to July 15, 2021.
it is hoped that no misfortune will not affect these large-scale plans. Very soon, on August 15, the Grand theatre starts selling tickets for the performances of the season.
