Perm Ballet Notes.Indd
CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS PROGRAM Th ursday, April , , pm Th ursday, April , , pm Friday, April , , pm Friday, April , , pm Saturday, April , , pm Saturday, April , , pm Sunday, April , , pm Sunday, April , , pm Zellerbach Hall Zellerbach Hall Tchaikovsky Perm Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet & Orchestra Ballet & Orchestra Swan Lake Swan Lake A Ballet in Th ree Acts A Ballet in Th ree Acts Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Production conceived and directed by Natalia Makarova Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography Natalia Makarova (after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) Artistic Director of the Th eatre George Isaakyan Artistic Director of the Ballet Natalia Akhmarova Principal Conductor Valery Platonov Principal Guest Conductor Robert Cole Additional Choreography Sir Frederick Ashton Set Design Peter Farmer Production conceived and directed by Natalia Makarova Costume Design Galina Solovyeva George Isaakyan, Artistic Director of the Th eatre Production Coordinator Dina Makaroff Natalia Akhmarova, Artistic Director of the Ballet Production Assistant Olga Evreinoff Valery Platonov, Principal Conductor Robert Cole, Principal Guest Conductor Lighting Sergei Martynov Ballet Coaches Th is performance is made possible, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and by the Vodafone-US Foundation. Rimma Shlyamova, Valentina Baikova, Olga Lukina, Olga Salimbaeva Cal Performances thanks our Centennial Season Sponsor, Wells Fargo. Ballet Manager Vitaly Dubrovin 4 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 5 CAST SYNOPSIS Odette/Odile Elena Kulagina (April ) frightened, Odette tells the Prince the story of her Natalia Moiseeva (April , , ) plight. Th e spell that keeps them swans by day and maidens at night can only be broken if a man who Prince Siegfried Sergei Mershin (April , , ) has never loved before swears eternal fi delity to Alexey Tyukov (April ) her.
[Show full text]