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The Kirov Spectacular

The Kirov Orchestra with singers of the Kirov Opera and dancers from the Kirov Ballet present this exhilarating event created exclusively for Kennedy Center audiences.

  • Jan. 18 - 22, 2005
  • Opera House
  • 2 hrs. 34 min.
  • $40.00 - $250.00
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About

The Kirov Orchestra with singers of the Kirov Opera and dancers from the Kirov Ballet present this exhilarating event created exclusively for Kennedy Center audiences. The Washington Post called their last gathering in 2002 an “evening for which the Kennedy Center was invented...a stately, ambitious, multi-disciplinary festival of some of the highest of high arts.” Conductor Valery Gergiev opens this dazzling showcase of ballet and opera selections with the Overture to Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila. Ballet offerings include ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina performing Fokine’s The Dying Swan and Daria Pavlenko in Balanchine’s La Valse, as well as the pas de deux from Petipa’s Le Corsaire and “Rubies” from Balanchine’s Jewels. Members of Kirov Opera will perform works by Tchaikovsky (the Ballroom Scene from Act 3 of Queen of Spades) and Rimsky-Korsakov (Act IV from Tsar’s Bride and the mesmerizing Merchant Scene from Sadko).

CASTING

TSAR’S BRIDE: Gryaznoi: Evgeny Nikitin (1/19 & 20), Victor Chernomortsev (1/22); Marfa: Olga Trifonova; Lyubasha: Olga Savova; Sobakin: Sergei Alexashkin; Domna: Nadezhda Vasilieva; Dunyasha: Liubov Sokolova; Maliuta: Alexei Tanovitsky. QUEEN OF SPADES: Eletsky: Vasily Gerello; Lisa: TBD. SADKO: Sadko: Alexei Steblianko (1/19 & 20), Oleg Balashov (1/22); Volkhova: Irma Gigolashvili; Viking Merchant: Sergei Alexashkin; Venetian Merchant: Vladimir Moroz (1/19), Alexander Gergalo (1/20 & 22); Indian Merchant: Dmitry Voropaev; Liubava: Olga Savova; Nezhata: Liubov Sokolova; Duda: Vadim Kravets; Sopel: Viktor Vikhrov; 1st Elder: Vladimir Zhivopistsev; 2nd Elder: Alexei Tannovitsky. LA VALSE : Soloists: Uliana Lopatkina (1/18), Daria Pavlenko (1/19), and Ekaterina Kondaurova (1/22); Shishov Vladimir (1/18 & 22) and Andrey Merkuriev (1/19); Death: Soslan Kulaev; Three dancers: Alexandra Iosifidi, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Daria Suhokurova; First Pas de Deux: Natalya Sologub and Andrey Merkuriev (1/18), Maksim Khrebtov (1/19 & 22); Second Pas de Deux: Yulia Kasenkova, Vasily Scherbakov; Third Pas de Deux: Sofya Gumerova, Maksim Zuzin. LE CORSAIRE PAS DE DEUX: Alina Somova, Leonid Sarafanov. RUBIES: Soloists: Diana Vishneva (1/18 & 19), Leonid Sarafanov (1/18 & 19), Sofya Gumerova, Irina Golub (1/22), Anton Korsakov (1/22); Four Dancers: Maksim Khrebtov, Vasily Scherbakov, Anton Lukovkin, Alexey Negviga. THE DYING SWAN: Uliana Lopatkina.

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