15.05.2012

Twenty fifth Nuriev Ballet Festival kicks off in Kazan

(Kazan, May 15, Tatar-inform, Lucia Kamalova). The Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre tonight with a play Spartacus opens the 25th international Nuriev Ballet Festival. The jubilee event will run until 27 May.

Ballet artistic director Vladimir Yakovlev said at a news conference the audience was in for a true art festivity that had long been prepared for.

“I hope all our ideas will be fulfilled and the plays performed up to the highest standard,” he said.

“Russia has no rivals to the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre that hosts an opera festival for 30 years and a ballet one for 25. It is rare these days, there are many various festivals and competitions but not like these ones,” said a critic Natalia Sadovskaya. The Rudolph Nuriev festival is one of the most prestigious ones in the contemporary art world, its standards have year to year been growing, she holds.

The festival’s poster includes 9 shows and 2 gala concerts. The list mostly includes classic pieces, selected by time and popular both with audiences in Russia and the rest of the world. They are Giselle, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Don Quixote and Le Corsaire.

Besides, the repertory includes the ballet Anyuta by V. Gavrilin, directed by V. Vasiliev, Tatar national gem, ballet Shurale by F. Yarullin, and contemporary ballet Spartacus by A. Khachaturyan, directed by G. Kovtun.