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RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE:
PROKOFIEV’S CINDERELLA*
An International Passport Presentation
Thursday, February 14, 7:30pm

A Valentine's Day treat: The Russion National Ballet Theater treats lovers of all ages to Sergei Prokofiev’s classic fairytale, Cinderella! The company will perform the classic Rostislav Zakharov choreography for this full-evening presentation.

*San Diego Symphony does not appear.

RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE PRESENTS

CINDERELLA

Thursday, February 14, 2013, 7:30pm

Copley Symphony Hall

CINDERELLA

Full-length Ballet in Two Acts

Music by Sergei Prokofiev

Libretto: Nicolai Volkov

Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov

Sets and Costumes: Elisaveta Dvorkina

Lighting: Marina Borodina

ACT I

Cinderella’s House

--INTERMISSION—

ACT II

Scene 1: The Palace

Scene 2: Cinderella’s House

Cinderella                   Maria Klyueva, Maria Sokolnikova

Prince                          Aydos Zakan, Mikhail Mikhailov, Constantin Marykin

Stepmother                  Evgeny Rudacov, Alexandr Daev

Two Ugly Sisters         Elena Khorosheva, Nanflia Idfnjva, Anna Gaygash

Fairy Godmother        Ekaterina Egorova, Anna Gaydash

Jester                           Viacheselav Tapcharov

Fairies of the Seasons Princesses:

Spring                          Anna Gaydash

Summer                       Anna Petushinova

Autumn                        Ekaterina Pankovskaya

Winter                          Maria Klyueva, Olga Gudkova

Ambassadors:

Mauritanian                Ekatsiarina Pankovskaya

Spanish                        Constantin Marykin, Alexandr Yacodlev

Chinese                       Anton Baglikov

Russian                        Alexandr Yacodlev

Corps de Ballet

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 also to invigorating 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 as well as 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.

In 1994 the legendary Bolshoi principal dancer Elena Radchenko was selected by Presidential decree to assume the first permanent artistic directorship of the company.  Ms. Radchenko is the founder of the Russian National Ballet Theatre, and she has focused the Company on upholding the grand national tradition of the major Russian ballet works and developing new talents throughout Russia, with a repertory of virtually all of the great full works of Marius Petipa:  Don Quixote, La Bayadere, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Raymonda, Paquita, Coppelia and La Sylphide, as well as productions of, among others, The Nutcracker, Sylvia and La Fille Mal Gardee.