Russian cultural impresario, Edouard
Miasnikov, has announced the 2019 tour of the Royal Moscow Ballet to South
Africa presenting three pieces: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture: Fantasy;
the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 (Pathétique); and excerpts from Carl Orff’s scenic cantanta, Carmina Burana.
Royal Moscow Ballet has toured successfully
around the globe presenting more than a thousand performances. The company,
which consists of graduates of the best Russian choreography, ballet and dance
schools, premiered as the Royal Moscow Ballet on August 12, 2002, founded by
Anatoly Emelianov and Anna Aleksidze.
This tour continues last year’s theme
celebrating great Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This time two
pieces are on the bill: Romeo and Juliet
which is one of the best loved one-act ballets, featuring a score by
Tchaikovsky, based on Shakespeare's tragic tale of star-crossed young lovers.The
Symphony No. 6, also known as the Pathétique Symphony, is Tchaikovsky's final
completed symphony. There is much debate as to what inspired this beautiful
piece. The composer entitled the work "The Passionate Symphony", that
was then incorrectly translated into French as “pathétique”, meaning
"solemn" or "emotive".
German composer Carl Heinrich Maria Orff,
is best known for his distinctive cantata Carmina
Burana (1935) based on 24 poems, mostly boisterous and bawdy, from the
medieval collection of texts of the same name. The opening, O Fortuna, was famously used in an
iconic advert for Old Spice
aftershave and as the X Factor theme.
The ballet performed for this tour will be a new production of Carmina Burana.
All ballets for this tour are choreographed
by Anatoly Emelianov.
The Russian Ballet will have two
performances in Durban in the Playhouse Opera on March 9 at 14h00 and 18h00. Booking
through Computicket.
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