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Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

Ural Opera Ballet Fest

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festival's creators
       Vyacheslav Samodurov   choreographer
       Bogdan Korolyok   theater critic

«Ural Opera Ballet Fest» was holden for the first time in the city from October 14 to October 21 and was devoted to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding ballet dancer and choreographer Marius Petipa (1818 —1910). The partner of the festival is the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, where several events of the program were presented.


The festival is dedicated to the new academic art, the metamorphosis that traditional forms of art are experiencing today — opera, ballet, academic music — and new forms of utterance arising at their intersection.

The first event dedicated to the anniversary of the birth of Petipa, was the new ballet of Vyacheslav Samodurov «Order of the King». Unlike Paquita, which lined up around the old libretto and classical choreography of the choreographer (this festival closes the festival), the King’s Order is created here and now — a fantasy based on the libretto of the forgotten Petipa ballets (one of them, under the same name, Petipa put in 1886). This is a ballet journey: on the orders of King Louis XIV, heroes equip an expedition to the ends of the world in search of beauty. For the new ballet «The Order of the King», the theater ordered music to the composer from St. Petersburg Anatoly Korolyov.

production team

Vyacheslav
Samodurov

Choreographer

He performed as a principal dancer at the world’s top ballet companies — at the Mariinsky theatre, the Netherlands National ballet, the Royal Ballet of the Great Britain. In 2006 he started his career in choreography. He worked with Russia’s and world’s best theatres: the Covent Garden («Trip trac» to music by Shostakovich in 2010), Mikhaylovsky theatre («Minor sonatas» to music by Scarlatti in 2010), the Bolshoy theatre («Undine» by Henze in 2016), Perm theatre of opera and ballet («Le Baiser de la Fee» by Stravinsky in 2017).

Bogdan
Korolek
theater critic

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Assistant artistic director of the Yekaterinburg ballet. Author of publications on ballet and academic music on the portal Colta.ru, in the Petersburg Theater Magazine, in the booklets of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters. In the past — the ballet dancer of the Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (2010 — 2015). A graduate of the Krasnoyarsk Choreographic College, the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (specialty «History and Theory of Ballet»), St. Petersburg State University (specialty «music criticism»).
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