Cal Performances Presents Program Friday, March , , pm Saturday, March , , pm & pm Tchaikovsk y Perm Sunday, March , , pm Ballet & Orchestra Zellerbach Hall George Isaakyan Artistic Director of the Th eatre Tchaikovsk y Perm Natalia Akhmarova Artistic Director of the Ballet Ballet & Orchestra Valery Platonov Principal Conductor Prima Balerina Elena Kulagina Principals Yaroslava Araptanova Natalya Poleshchuk Yulia Mashkina Robert Gabdullin Sergey Mershin Artur Shesterikov Soloists Viktoriya Ananyan Ekaterina Gushchina Yuliya Manzheles Ekaterina Tarasova Vitaliy Poleshchuk Ivan Poroshin Ilya Shitov Igor Solovyev Taras Tovstyuk Corps de ballet Yana Alfi mova Yuliya Balagurova Kseniia Barbashova Maria Belousova Olena Bozhko Galina Dubrovina Nadezhda Dvurechenskaya Svetlana Golovkina Mariya Gorbunova Elena Kobeleva Anastasiya Kostyuk Tatyana Kolchanova Karina Kudryavtseva Elena Kulichkova Elena Levina Lyudmila Manzheles Irina Markova Maria Menshikova Elena Morozova Ekaterina Mosienko Ekaterina Panchenko Anna Poistogova Albina Rangulova Marianna Selvestru Irina Shurkova Darya Sosnina Nadezhda Vasilkova Evgeniya Vostrikova Olga Zavgorodnaya Svetlana Zakhlebina Swan Lake Pavel Boyarinov Rostislav Desnitskiy Vladimir Dorofeev Dmitriy Durnev Nikita Elikarov Ballet in Th ree Acts () Marat Fadeev Nikolay Kalabin Sergey Kreker Aleksey Lysenko Nikolay Mityashin Georgiy Nelzin Ruslan Nurtdinov Konstantin Olyunin Andrey Popov Oleg Posokhin Special Guest Artists Artem Pozdeev Evgeniy Rogov Vladislav Shumakov Roman Subbotin Aleksandr Tarasov Roman Tarkhanov Maksim Temnikov Dmitriy Tenitskiy Mikhail Timashev Dmitriy Zvyagin Polina Semionova Vladimir Shklyarov Music Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (–) Ballet Coaches Choreography and Direction Natalia Makarova (after Marius Petipa and Rimma Shlyamova Valentina Baikova Olga Lukina Olga Salimbaeva Lev Ivanov) Additional Choreography Sir Frederick Ashton Executive Director Vadim Lukin Sets Peter Farmer Ballet Manager Vitaly Dubrovin Costumes Galina Solovyeva Production Director Jonathan Bradley Lighting Sergey Martynov Technical Director and Lighting Designer Sergey Martynov Conductor Valery Platonov Th is presentation is made possible, in part, by the Bernard Osher Foundation though a gift to the Centennial Campaign Creative Venture Fund. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank. 4 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 5 Cast Synopsis Odette/Odile Polina Semionova (Friday & Sunday), Swan Lake perfect love. Never before his heart has been given Natalia Moiseeva, Yaroslava Araptanova to anyone, but without hesitation he off ers it to Prince Siegfried Vladimir Shklyarov (Friday & Sunday), Odette. As dawn approaches the Sorcerer exerts his Sergei Mershin, Robert Gabdullin Act 1 power and Odette is forced away from Siegfried’s Benno Sergei Mershin, Robert Gabdullin, arms. Siegfried realizes his fate is now entwined Scene Taras Tovstyuk, Dmitriy Tenitskiy with hers. Rothbart Igor Soloviev It is the eve of Prince Siegfried’s coming-of-age Th e Queen Mother Galina Dubrovina ball. His companions, led by Benno, are preparing Act 2 their own celebration for him. Th e Prince arrives Master of Ceremonies Vitaly Dubrovin and is soon enjoying himself with his friends. Th e guests are arriving for the formal ball to Pas de trois Th e festivities are unexpectedly interrupted by celebrate Prince Siegfried’s coming of age. Th e Yaroslava Araptanova, Natalia Makina, Ekaterina Tarasova, the arrival of the Queen Mother. She takes her son Queen Mother enters and is disturbed to fi nd that Ekaterina Guschina, Maria Belousova, Maria Menshikova aside, insisting the time has now come when he Siegfried is not there. Soon he arrives, but he is pre- must assume the responsibilities of the kingdom. occupied by his thoughts. Th ree Knights present Four Cygnets She presents him with the emblem that is the the prospective fi ancées to the court. Courteously, Yana Alfi mova, Ksenia Barbasheva, Maria Belousova, symbol of his kingship. As King, one of the fi rst Siegfried dances with each of them, but his heart Nadezhda Dvurechenskaya, Ekaterina Tarasova, Ekaterina Mosienko matters he must consider is that of his marriage. is now pledged to Odette and despite his mother’s Siegfried pleads with her, but the Queen reminds insistence he refuses to choose. Four Big Swans him that he is obligated to choose a fi ancée at the Suddenly an unknown Knight appears, the Ekaterina Guschina , Natalia Makina, Yulia Manzheles, ball. His Mother’s words weigh heavily on his soul. evil Sorcerer in disguise, accompanied by the rav- Ekaterina Panchenko, Yaroslava Araptanova, Elena Kobeleva He is saddened that he will loose his freedom and ishing and devious Odile. Siegfried is mesmerized that he has not yet met someone who would touch by her striking resemblance to his beloved Odette. Spanish Dance his heart. Odile enchants and beguiles him. Any doubts that Marianna Selvestru, Nikolai Mityashin, Artem Pozdeev, Ruslan Nurtdinov, As twilight sets in, the Prince remains preoc- Siegfried may have about Odile’s identity are dis- Tatiana Kolchanova, Anna Poistogova, Ekaterina Panchenko, Ivan Poroshin cupied with his thoughts. persed. Siegfried becomes convinced that she is Hungarian Dance Benno sees a fl ight of swans and urges Siegfried Odette and declares that he has chosen her to be Ilya Shitov, Ivan Poroshin, Marat Fadeev, Anna Poistogova, Maria Gorbunova, Ekaterina Mosienko, to go hunting in hope that the diversion will dispel his bride. Th e Knight intervenes demanding that Evgenia Vostrikova, Nadezhda Dvurechenskaya, Alexey Yaschenko, Pavel Boyarinov, his melancholic mood. Siegfried goes off into the Prince Siegfried swear an oath of fi delity to Odile. Maksim Temnikov, Alexei Lysenko, Roman Tarkhanov, Ekaterina Kitaeva, woods and Benno follows, but their paths diverge. He willingly does so. Before the Prince’s eyes a vi- Rostislav Desnitskiy, Svetlana Zakhlebina, Irina Shurkova sion of the inconsolable Odette appears. He real- Scene izes that he has been deceived. Triumphant the Neopolitan Dance evil Sorcerer and Odile disappear. Grief-stricken, Wandering alone deep in the forest, Siegfried dis- Ivan Poroshin, Roman Tarkhanov, Ksenia Barbasheva, Maria Belousova, Yana Alfi mova, Siegfried runs to the lakeside. covers a mysterious moonlit lake. Unbeknownst to Dmitriy Tenitskiy, Ekaterina Kitaeva, Svetlana Zakhlebina, Irina Shurkova, Maria Belousova him, this is the domain of the evil Sorcerer who Mazurka has cast a spell on young maidens turning them Act 3 Irina Markova, Elena Morozova, Elena Kobeleva, Svetlana Golovkina, Nikolai Mityashin, into swans. Siegfried prepares to shoot as he sees a Mikhail Timashev, Artem Pozdeev, Marat Fadeev, Ruslan Nurtdinov, swan gliding across the lake. To his astonishment Night time. A deep sadness has descended upon the Marianna Selvestru, Irina Shurkova when the swan reaches the shore, she is suddenly lake of swans. Th ey are now doomed by the spell to transformed. Her beauty overwhelms the Prince. remain swans forever. Rushing through the fright- Brides She is Odette, Queen of the Swans who has been ening storm, created by the evil Sorcerer, Siegfried Ekaterina Guschina, Natalia Makina, Ekaterina Tarasova, Ekaterina Panchenko, Maria Menshikova, enchanted by the evil Sorcerer. Although fright- searches for Odette to beg her forgiveness. Odette Nadezhda Dvurechenskaya, Maria Belousova, Yaroslava Araptanova, Elena Kobeleva, Yana Alfi mova ened, Odette unburdens the story of her plight. forgives him, but she knows that nothing can be Th e spell that keeps them swans by day and maid- changed. Death is their only salvation. Th e waves Knights ens at night can only be broken if a man who has of the lake unite the lovers forever. Th e power of Vitaly Poleschuk, Ilya Shitov, Dmitriy Zvyagin never loved before swears eternal fi delity to her. the evil Sorcerer is destroyed. From the fi rst moment of their meeting, he knows In a vision, Odette and Siegfried approach an Courtiers, Waltz, Sarabande, Swans that he was right to believe in the existence of a ideal and eternal love. Corps de ballet 6 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 7 Program Notes About the Artists Swan Lake by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky is a mas- Russia. After working for a time as a clerk in the Th e Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet and world premieres of Massenet’s Cleopatre and terpiece of world classical choreography. Of all bal- Ministry of Justice, he began full-time musical Th eatre is one of Russia’s most distinguished ar- Cinderella, Shchedrin’s Lolita and Handel’s Alcina, lets it is the best known and the most popular. study at the age of , when the great pianist Anton tistic establishments. Perm, spectacularly perched which is a breakthrough in the fi eld of early mu- Its secret is not only in the perfection of the Rubenstein established a local conservatory. Two above the Kama river, is a city of impeccable cul- sic so rarely performed in Russia; a modern pro- great composer’s music, but also in that extraordi- years later, he became a teacher of harmony at a tural credentials. At the close of its th season, duction of Bizet’s Carmen, Dvořák’s Rusalka and nary deep poetic thought which it is inspired by, new conservatory in Moscow, a position he held the Tchaikovsky Th eatre has produced an ever Tchaikovsky’s magnifi cent Mazeppa, which had and which it powerfully expresses; it is in the psy- for years. increasing number of classical and contemporary not been performed in Perm since . chological essence of the ballet with its complex he- By , he had