PROGRAMME:
PALIMPSEST. WRITTEN ANEW (premiere)
Music: Béla Bartók
Production Choreographer: Yuri Smekalov
Production Designer: Andrei Sevbo
Costumes Designer: Nina Shterenberg
Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin
Video Graphics Designer: Michael Mesyts
The production features extracts from Alexander Tsypkin’s story Palimpsest. Written Anew
Soloist: Vladimir Shklyarov
LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT
To music by Johann Sebastian Bach
(Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Alexander Goedicke)
Libretto by Jean Cocteau
Choreography by Roland Petit
Production Choreographer: Luigi Bonino
Set Designer: Georges Wakhevitch
Costume Designer: Karinska
Lighting Designer: Jean-Michel Désiré
Cast: Vladimir Shklyarov and Ekaterina Kondaurova
DIAMONDS (JEWELS)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine (1967)
Staging: Karin von Aroldingen, Sarah Leland, Elyse Borne and Sean Lavery
Scenery: Peter Harvey (1967)
Costumes: Karinska (1967)
Recreations of costumes supervised: Holly Hines
Original lighting: Ronald Bates
Lighting: Perry Silvey
Lighting Adaptation for the Mariinsky II by Andrei Ponizovsky
Soloists: Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov
The Ballet of George Balanchine Jewels is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® service standards established and provided by the Trust
The Mariinsky Theatre would like to express its gratitude to Mrs Bettina von Siemens for her support in bringing the "Ballets of George Balanchine" project to life
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov