Ekaterinburg, Opera and Ballet Theater: repertoire, troupe

His musical performances are famousEkaterinburg. The Opera and Ballet Theater (address: Lenin Avenue, 46a) is the pride of the city. In his repertoire, not only classical performances, but also modern ones. Every year the theater pleases its viewer with several premieres.

History of the theater

In the 19th century I saw the first performancesEkaterinburg. The Opera and Ballet Theater appeared much later than this event. The first of its season was opened only in 1912. Before that, since 1874, there was only a circle of amateurs in the city who staged wonderful musical performances. The first opera staged in the theater was "Life for the Tsar" by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. Its premiere took place in 1912. The first ballet that was staged at the theater is the "Magic Flute" to the music of R. Drigo. His premiere took place in 1914.

The first professional troupe in the city is veryquickly fell in love with Yekaterinburg. The theater of opera and ballet immediately won a name for itself. After 10 years he became famous far beyond the city limits and got the fame of one of the best in Russia. The theater has always worked and works great artists. It was here that such outstanding personalities as Boris Shtokolov, Sergey Lemeshev, Leonid Baratov, Yury Gulyaev, Ivan Kozlovsky and many others began their creative career.

Performances

He loves and reveres the whole of Ekaterinburg Theater of opera and ballet. The poster offers him the following performances:

• "Boris Godunov".
• The Earl of Ori.
• "Flying Dutchman".
• "Love and death".
• "Bohemia".
• "Stone Flower".
• Othello.
• "Giselle."
• The Tsar's Bride.
• "Romeo and Juliet".
• "Hansel and Gretel."
• "Frosty."
• "Eugene Onegin".
• "Corsair".
• "Amore Buffo."
• The Bayadere.
• "Madame Butterfly".
• «Цвендоделика».
• The Snow Maiden.
• The Sylphide.
• "The Queen of Spades."
• "Nutcracker".
• "Paquita."
• "Yearning".
• "Five Tango."
• "The Wedding of Figaro."
• "Prince Igor".
• La Traviata ".

Premieres of 2015

Very often the Yekaterinburg troupe is pleased with its new productions. The Opera and Ballet Theater re-creates the repertoire every year. In 2015, the audience will have the following new productions:

• Opera "Satyagraha".
• Swan Lake ballet".
• Opera "The Passenger".
• The ballet "Futile precaution".
• Opera Carmen.
• Ballet "Terra Nova".
• Opera Rigoletto.

Troupe

His talented artists are proudEkaterinburg. The Opera and Ballet Theater is a huge troupe. It includes opera singers, ballet dancers, choristers, musicians of the orchestra and actors of Mimams. The troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theater is talented people, most of them are laureates of various festivals and competitions, including international ones.

Soloists of the opera (soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone and bass):

• Irina Naumova.
• Alexander Kolesnikov.
• Olga Vutiras.
• Alexey Glukhov.
• Olga Tenyakova.
• Vladislav Troshin.
• Zarema Beryozova.
• Harry Aghajanyan.
• Victoria Novikova.
• Irina Kulikovskaya.
• Irina Zarutskaya.
• Hope Shlyapnikov.
• Irina Rindzuner.
• Ksenia Kovalevskaya.
• Oleg Budaratsky.
• Natalia Mokeeva.
• Irina Bozhenko.
• Olga Peshkova.
• Natalia Karlova.
• Valentina Oleynikova.
• Vladimir Voroshnin.
• Tatyana Nikanorova.
• Vladimir Cheberyak.
• Nadezhda Babintseva.
• Yevgeny Kryukov.
• Nadezhda Ryzhenkova.
• Cyril Matveyev.
• Ilgam Valiev.
• Dmitry Rozviz.
• Alexander Krasnov.
• Vitaly Petrov.
• Yuri Devin.
• Valentin Zakharov.
• Alexander Kulga.
• Dmitry Starodubov.
• Alexey Semenishchev.
• Mikhail Korobeinikov.
• Andrei Reshetnikov.

Soloists of the ballet:

• Anastasia Bagaeva.
• Kunsun Pak.
• Elena Kabanova.
• Miki Nishiguchi.
• Anastasia Kerzhemankina.
• Karina Rafal'son (Kudoyarova).
• Victor Mekhanoshin.
• Elena Vorobyova.

And others.

"Passenger"

The first operatic work of the composer MosesWeinberg will soon see Yekaterinburg. The Opera and Ballet Theater in the new season will present the performance "Passenger" to the public. It was written in the 60s of the 20th century, but the first production took place only in 2006. The plot of the opera is based on the story of Polish writer Z. Posmysh. The action takes place on a transatlantic liner. The main heroine Lisa with her husband, a diplomat, sails to Brazil. There she meets a woman who seems familiar to her. Liza tells her husband about her assumptions and reveals the truth about herself - she was a warder in Auschwitz. Lisa seems that the woman on the liner is very similar to one of the prisoners of the camp - Martha, who had long considered the dead. The heroine is trying to find out who this passenger is, stirring up her memories.