Man and nature, transience and new beginnings, romanticism and modernity - these pairs of terms can be used to describe the themes that ballet director Ivan Alboresi deals with in this double evening. Sources of inspiration for the first part are the romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich and Ludwig van Beethoven. Friedrich, whose birthday will be the 250th anniversary in September 2024, not only made his "chalk cliffs on Rügen" world famous. He immersed his motifs in masterful lighting moods, with which he expressed, among other things, the vulnerability of nature. In combination with Beethoven's 4th Symphony, in which lyrical lightheartedness meets darker colors, Ivan Alboresi's choreography paints a poetic vision of a relationship between man and nature that is as complex as it is intimate.

Friedrich/Le Sacre du Printemps

Theater Nordhausen

Theater Rudolstadt im Stadthaus

As the fairy Carabosse is not invited to little Aurora's baptism, she puts a curse on the child: the girl is to prick herself on a spindle on her 16th birthday and die. Thanks to a good fairy, however, this misfortune is mitigated. Aurora does not die, but falls into a deep sleep from which she only awakens 100 years later with a kiss from Prince Désiré. She is happily reunited with him for life and the story ends with a happy ending.

Rina Hayashi

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Jan 6, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025

Sleeping Beauty · Theater Nordhausen

Dec 1, 2024 - May 17, 2025

Friedrich/Le Sacre du Printemps · Theater Nordhausen

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Dec 1, 2024 - May 17, 2025

Friedrich/Le Sacre du Printemps · Theater Nordhausen

Jan 6, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025

Sleeping Beauty · Theater Nordhausen

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Aurora in Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky

Theater Nordhausen

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