La Bayadere - Schedule, Program & Tickets

CAST

Nikiya
Svetlana Zakharova (7 Sept.)

Olga Smirnova (8 Sept.)

Alyona Kovalyova (10 Sept.)

Dugmanta, Rajah Alexei Loparevich
Gamzatti, his daughter
Olga Marchenkova (7 Sept.)

Margarita Shrainer (8 Sept.)

Kristina Kretova (10 Sept.)

Solor, the noble warrior
Denis Rodkin (7 Sept.)

Semyon Chudin (8 Sept.)

Jacopo Tissi (10 Sept.)

The High Brahmin Alexander Fadeyechev
Toloragva, warrior Ivan Alexeyev
A Slave
Alexander Vodopetov (7, 10 Sept.)

Ivan Filchev (8 Sept.)

Magedaveya, Fakir
Anton Savichev (7, 10 Sept.)

Georgy Gusev (8 Sept.)

Aya, Slave Anna Balukova (7, 10 Sept.), Kristina Karasyova (8 Sept.)
Gumpe Bruna Cantanhede Gaglianone, Victoria Litvinova
Pas d'action (Act II) Daria Bochkova, Elizaveta Kruteleva, Daria Khokhlova, Eleonora Sevenard, Antonina Chapkina, Ksenia Zhiganshina, Anastasia Denisova, Alexandra Trikoz, Egor Khromushin, Dmitry Efremov
Dance with drum
Kristina Karasyova (7, 10 Sept.), Denis Savin (7, 10 Sept.), Georgy Gusev (7, 10 Sept.)

Anna Balukova (8 Sept.), Nikita Kapustin (8 Sept.), Alexei Matrakhov (8 Sept.)

The Gold Idol
Vyacheslav Lopatin (7, 10 Sept.)

Denis Zakharov (8 Sept.)

Manu (Dance with Jug) Anna Tikhomirova
Scene "Shadows"
First Variation
Elizaveta Kruteleva (7, 10 Sept.)

Daria Bochkova (8 Sept.)

Second Variation
Margarita Shrainer (7, 10 Sept.)

Daria Khokhlova (8 Sept.)

Third Variation Antonina Chapkina

From September 7th to 13th, 2018, the stage of La Scala will host the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet, within a partnership that saw La Scala performing in Moscow last September. The first of the two productions presented by the Bol’šoj Ballet is La Bayadère by Marius Petipa, in the version by Yuri Grigorovich. La Bayadère, staged for the first time in Saint Petersburg in 1877, is one of the masterpieces of the classical repertoire. The Indian poem Śakuntalā by Kālidāsa inspired Petipa to create the perfect harmony between ensemble scenes, solos and pas de deux, with moments of high lyricism and poetic charm. Above all, the wonder of the Kingdom of the Shades, a framework that opened the way to the western fortune of this ballet. Working with Petipa’s ballets has been one of the main trends in Grigorovich’s choreographic activities, aware of Petipa’s living presence, and the preservation of the classical legacy - and Petipa himself better than others showed that old ballets have to be restored. This was the aim of Grigorovich’s version of La Bayadère in 1991, and in 2013, when the ballet has been revived again. The principles underlying the production remain unchanged: all the genuine Petipa compositions, later interpolations, and also extended fragments of ballet action re-choreographed by Grigorovich himself; new to the audiences in 2013, the absence of the final. There is not the earthquake that destroys the temple. Grigorovich decided that after the symphonic Shades act, there is no need for anymore dancing: “The Shades are a pinnacle in ballet art and long may they remain so. And may every person sitting in the auditorium feel to their finger tips the magic of Russian ballet, one of the wonders of the world”.

Subject to change.