The Russian National Ballet Theatre performs 'Giselle'

Overview

The Russian National Ballet Theatre returns to present the sweeping grace and beauty of the classic ballet "Giselle" on-stage at the Hanover Theatre in the Spring of 2011.  You loved them in Swan Lake and Music Worcester brings them back again, with the lavish sets, beautiful costumes, gifted principal dancers, and the corp de ballet that takes your breath away.  Giselle was created and first performed at the Paris Opera in 1841 and continues to be a favorite classic to this day.

Tickets:  Floor: 1st price $50, 2nd price $45       Balcony:  1st price $50, 2nd price $45, 3rd price $42, 4th price $39

Program

About the Artists

RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE

Artistic Director: Elena Radchenko

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 to invigorate 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, and 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 addition to their upcoming tour, beginning in January 2011 the company will embark upon a 4-month coast-to-coast tour of the United States.

 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 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.