Tour to the Armenian Capital

From 19 to 21 June, the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre will undertake another engagement as part of the Grand Tour federal programme. One year after its previous visit, the Company is once again travelling to Yerevan, where its artists are always eagerly anticipated and warmly welcomed by local audiences. The tour will feature three showings of The Sleeping Beauty at the Alexander Spendiaryan National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. The Tchaikovsky–Petipa masterpiece remains one of the defining symbols of Russian culture, a testament to its worldwide acclaim and enduring significance.
 

Over the course of three evenings, this dazzling fairy-tale ballet will be presented with three different casts. The part of Princess Aurora will be played by Valerie Gomez de Cádiz on 19 June, Elena Chernova on 20 June, and Nuriya Kartamysova on 21 June. All three of these accomplished ballerinas perfectly embody the qualities bestowed upon the story’s heroine by the benevolent fairies: grace, gentleness, and other magical gifts. Each Aurora will be partnered up with her very own Désiré. This prince, whose kiss awakens the Sleeping Beauty after a century of slumber, will be portrayed through dance by Vyacheslav Spilchevsky, Andrey Sorokin, and Dmitry Sobolev respectively. Guiding each pair towards their happy reunion, is the Lilac Fairy: Irina Koryakova will appear as this important supporting character on 19 June; Anna Skvortsova, on 20 June; and Galina Mikhireva, on 21 June.
 

While commenting on the tour preparations, Andrian Fadeev, Art Director of the Leonid Yacobson Ballet Theatre, explained: “It has been two years since we first took The Sleeping Beauty to the Armenian capital. Audiences were highly receptive to our choreographic interpretation of Charles Perrault’s enchanting fairy tale, spectacularly beautiful yet rich in philosophical depth. The creative ties between our Theatre and Armenia span many decades. It is the joint efforts of Leonid Yacobson and Aram Khachaturian that gave us Spartacus — a work that has since become a treasure of world choreographic and musical culture.”