Tragic Love And Grand
Romance Is The Theme At Music Hall With The Russian National Ballet Theatre and you could win a pair of tickets for this rarely performed original
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Music Hall is proud to welcome back The Russian National Ballet Theatre, Saturday, March 23rd at 8PM as they
stage the rarely performed, original Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky version of the William Shakespeare Tragedy, Romeo And Juliet and Chopiniana by Frederic Chopin.
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The Russian National Ballet Theatre company brings this
rarely seen original - as opposed to the later and more often performed Sergei
Prokofiev version to Music Hall’s main stage . The Tchiakovsky version was
originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and restaged by The Russian National
Ballet's, Elena Radchenko.
This is the full length, final version composed by
Tchaikovsky in 1880.
The Tchaikovsky version is rarely performed which makes this
a not-to-miss ballet for anyone interested in Ballet history.
In the great tradition of Russian ballet, this accomplished
company performs two of the most romantic classical ballets. With music by
Chopin and choreography by Mikhail Fokine,
Chopiniana, or Les Sylphides as it is often known, has been
described as a “romantic reverie.” Romeo
and Juliet will also be performed
to Tchaikovsky’s opulent score, elevates Shakespeare’s heartbreaking tale of
young star-crossed lovers.
The Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded in Moscow
during the transitional period of Perestroika in the late 1980s, when many of
the great dancers and choreographers of the Soviet Union's ballet institutions
were exercising their new-found creative freedom by starting new, vibrant
companies dedicated not only to the timeless tradition of classical Russian
Ballet but to invigorate this tradition as the Russians began to accept new
developments in the dance from around the world.
The company, then titled the Soviet National Ballet, was
founded by and incorporated graduates from the great Russian choreographic
schools of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perm. The principal dancers of the
company came from the upper ranks of the great ballet companies and academies
of Russia, and the companies of Riga, Kiev and even Warsaw. Today, the Russian
National Ballet Theatre is its own institution, with over 50 dancers of
singular instruction and vast experience, many of whom have been with the
company since its inception.
Tickets are $30, $40,
$50 available at Music Hall Box Office 313 887-8501
Music Hall Center for
the Performing Arts
Jazz Café
350 Madison
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 887-8501
