MariusPetipa’schoreography takes the audience to legendary India to witness a love story between a temple dancer and a noble warrior. La Bayadère is an excellentexample of the classical ballet tradition, but the new Hungarian National Balett production will prove to be a real treat. The records of the original 1877 choreography are incomplete, the fourth act of the ballet is lost. AlbertMirzoyan attempts to reconstruct the missing parts to complete Petipa’schoreography of La Bayadère on stage of the Opera House.

La Bayadère

Hungarian State Opera

The apex of Tchaikovsky’s creativity for dance, together with Swan Lake, The Nutcracker was commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, impresario of the Imperial Theatres, who in the wake of the success of Sleeping Beauty, strongly advocated renewed collaboration between the choreographer Marius Petipa and the composer Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij, commissioning both a ballet and an opera. The result was the single act Iolanta and in fact, The Nutcracker Suite and Iolanta were performed on the same evening in December 1892, on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. The ballet is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Nussknacker und Mausekönig (Nutcracker and King of the Rats, 1816), which Petipa transformed into the enchanted scenario of a real fairy tale, concealing the disconcerting and disturbing thrill of the literary source with a graceful and childish tone. It will be staged in a new version created by the Canadian choreographer Wayne Eagling in collaboration with Solymosi Tamás: the interpretation will be entrusted to étoiles, first dancers, soloists and dance corps of the Budapest National Opera, for whom the choreography was specifically designed.

Nóra Rományi

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14 - 27 Jun, 2025

La Bayadère · Hungarian State Opera House

Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2025

Nutcracker · Teatro La Fenice

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