M/K Fokine Triple Bill (7pm-St. Peters)

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Chopiniana. Schéhérazade. The Firebird.

the ballets of Michel Fokine

Ulyana Lopatkina

Irina Golub

Xenia Ostreikovskaya

Farukh Ruzimatov

Conducted by Valery Ovsyanikov

Chopiniana

choreographic composition in one act

Music: Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated: Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)

Choreography: Michel Fokine (1908)

Scenario: Michel Fokine

Revised version: Agrippina Vaganova (1931)

Set design based on original sketches: Orest Allegri

World premiere: 8 March 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time: 35 minutes

Schéhérazade

choreographic drama in one act

Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Symphony suite Schéhérazade)

Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)

Scenario: Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales

Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa

Set and costume design: Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches: Léon Bakst

World premiere: 4 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris

In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1994

Running time: 45 minutes

The Firebird

russian fairytale in two scenes

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)

Libretto: Michel Fokine

Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa

Set and costume design: Anna and Anatoly Nezhny

after original sketches: Alexander Golovin, Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine

World premiere: 25 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris

In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1994

Running time: 44 minutes

(As of 28 Jan 06)