Premiere of the ballet "Antigone"
News публикувана на: 04.07.2019
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In the cool nights of Stara Zagora from 9 pm on the stage of the Antique Forum "Augusta Traiana" from 19 to 27 July, the State Opera-Stara Zagora will present an emotional concert, two premiere opera and ballet titles and something more... Especially for the audience of the "Summer Musical Evenings at the Antique Forum" will be built an amphitheatrical grandstand with 500 seats!
On July 27, Antiquity is "on the move" again - in the premiere of the ballet Antigone, choreographed by Ludovic Parti. "Antigone is a one-act ballet set to music by Theodore Antoniou, Arvo Pärt, Mikis Theodorakis, Giovanni Solima, Nikos Skalkottas, and Frederic Chopin. Set design by Todor Demerov, costumes by Maria Hristova. The soloists are Anelia Dimitrova, Frederico Pinto, Ivaylo Yanev, Francesco Boriello, Joseph Wright, Kaito Takahashi, Fiordi Lohá, ballet of the State Opera-Stara Zagora. Narrator Svetla Todorova. The ballet is inspired by "Antigone" by Jean Anouilh.
Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, demonstrates devotion and greatness of spirit - unparalleled in mythology.When her father is banished from Thebes and blinded must beg in the streets, Antigone is his guide and watches over him until the end of his days. Returning back to Thebes, Antigone faces a new trial. Her brothers Eteocles and Polynices vie for power and at the end of the siege of the city by the foreign army led by Polynices, the two brothers die by killing each other. Their uncle Creon takes over and orders that Polynices' body be left without burial and that his soul find no rest. Whoever dares to defy this order will be punished with death. "Antigone returns to assume the role she has always been given, that of the young heroine who challenges the regimes in the name of universal love, which extends from the blood bond to all people who feel like brothers, thus overcoming any tribal-national ethos."
In the second part of this ballet evening, our audience will see the ballet Lotus. The young choreographer Alessandra Scalambrino from Italy comes at the invitation of the Artistic Director of the Stara Zagora Opera Ballet Sylvia Tomova, after winning the special prize for choreography in Modica, Italy. Her "Lotus" calls us to be like the lotus flower - to come alive every day and to face difficulties with courage. For it is the lotus flower that is an excellent metaphor for people who are able to overcome grief with calm, self-control and perseverance. The choreographer develops this theme, starting from the misleading idea of romantic love, according to which one can only be happy in a couple, to the final realization that one does not need anyone to perfect oneself. "We have in all of us the tools for transforming grief into 'miracle'. Alessandra Scalambrino chooses for her performance the inspiring music of the sensual pianist and composer Frederic Chopin.
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