Kremena Kostova with debut in "The Nutcracker"
News публикувана на: 13.01.2017
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The creative year 2017 begins for the State Opera Stara Zagora with the fairytale ballet The Nutcracker by P.I. Tchaikovsky on 17 January at 7 pm.
Alida Boneva restored on the stage of the Opera "The Nutcracker", a production from 2009, in which now participates the entire staff of the ballet and children from the "Margaritki" Youth Ballet with director Radost Mladenova-Arabadjieva. The style of this performance is neoclassical, which is very difficult to do because you have to know the classics extremely well to allow yourself to build on them. The charming ballerina Kremena Kostova makes her debut as Masha on January 17, Stanko Tanev is the Prince/the Nutcracker, Ivaylo Yanev is the guest Drosselmeyer, Ivelin Khristakiev and Zlatomir Kolev are Franz, The Mother and the Snow Queen is Bilyana Cholakova, the Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Irish, French dances are performed by all the artists from the Opera Ballet and the talented children from the Daisies.
Following the success of Sleeping Beauty in 1890, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose a work in two acts combining opera and ballet. The opera was Iolanta. For the ballet, Tchaikovsky again turned to the choreographer Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on Sleeping Beauty. The material that Petipa chose was an adaptation of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann's short story, "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice" by Alexandre Dumas, the father, called "The Tale of the Nutcracker." The plot of Hoffman's tale / and Dumas' adaptation / is largely simplified for the purposes of a ballet in two acts. Petipa gives extremely detailed instructions for the composition of each section of the work, including tempo and bar. The composer was not happy with these restrictions and was reluctant to work on the ballet.
The Nutcracker was premiered on 18 December 1892 along with the premiere of the opera Iolanta at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. The first performance was not a great success; the ballet was first performed outside Russia in 1943 in England, and in 1944 was the first performance in the United States by the San Francisco Ballet. In 1954 it was performed in New York, which was a huge success and has been traditionally performed at Christmas every year since.
This is the last performance of The Nutcracker for the winter season, following the success and packed houses on December 28 and 29 last December. We look forward to seeing you there!
Kremena Kostova was born in Stara Zagora. She graduated from NUMSI "Hristina Morfova" in the first class of classical ballet, in the class of prima ballerina Alida Boneva. For the first time on a professional stage Kremena appeared with her solo performance in the operetta "The Beautiful Elena" directed by prof. Hacho Boyadzhiev and choreographer Alida Boneva in 2003. Since 2005 she has been a ballet dancer at the State Opera Stara Zagora. He has participated in a number of performances. In 2006 she was in the lead role in the ballet "Scheherazade" choreographed by Boryana Sechanova. On April 29, 2007 for the International Ballet Day, Kremena danced Albignoni's "Adagio", together with Stanko Tanev, which was created especially for them - the choreography is by Alida Boneva. Other significant roles for her in this period were in : the performance "Deep Red" of the Drama Theatre "Geo Milev" and the role of Giselle in the performance ''Why Now '' choreographed by Anna Pamplova.
Kremena Kostova graduated from the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv in the specialty of Ballet Art (ballet pedagogy and directing) in the class of prof. Petar Lukanov. She has participated in many tours with the Stara Zagora Opera and has also performed on various European stages in Spain, Italy, Germany and Austria. In 2009 he participated in the productions ''Dervish'', ''From Seven Peaks to Seven Fields'', at the invitation of the world famous dance company ''Shaman Dance Theater''-Turkey, where he had the opportunity to work with world names in the field of dance art.
In 2010 she was appointed as a teacher of classical ballet at NUMSI "Hristina Morfova" in Stara Zagora. At the same time, in December 2011, she established her own ballet school "Pa De Cre'', and every year the number of children and their successes increased. The little artists participate in numerous charity projects, concerts, in five performances on a big stage. In 2013 Kremena Kostova started teaching in the newly established ballet class in the House of Culture "Noncho Vodenicharov" in Radnevo.
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