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The Tempest

Bolshoi Theatre, New Stage, Moscow, Russia
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Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Moscow, Russia
Starts at: 19:00
Acts: 3
Intervals: 1

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Cast
Performers
Ballet company: Bolshoi Ballet
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Creators
Composer: Yuri Krasavin
Choreographer: Vyacheslav Samodurov
Overview

Libretto after William Shakespeare's play

Choreographer: Vyacheslav Samodurov
Music Director: Pavel Klinichev
Set Designer: Aleksei Kondratyev
Costume Designer: Igor Chapurin
Lighting Designer: Sergei Vasiliev

Synopsis

The magician Prospero is determined to take revenge on the Duke of Milan Antonio and the King of Naples Alonso. Once they deceitfully took the throne from Prospero and banished him and his daughter Miranda from Milan. Prospero sends a storm to the ship on which his offenders are sailing with their retinue.

Act I

Scene 1

The tempest. A shipwreck. Ariel, following Prospero’s orders, scatters the travelers across the sea and takes Ferdinand away.

Scene 2

Prospero is in his abode, deep in thought. Outside the window, a storm rages — the storm he has caused.

Miranda tries to attract her father’s attention. She notices a sinking ship and begs her father to still the sea and save the people. Prospero tries to calm Miranda. Ariel flies into the room, his mission complete. Together they put Miranda to sleep.

Prospero gives Ariel new orders. Ariel reminds Prospero that he was promised freedom. Prospero is angry, but confirms that he will let Ariel go after everything he planned is accomplished.

Scene 3

The island is filled with dancing spirits. Caliban wanders among them. He meets Miranda, who he has liked for a long time. The girl ignores his persistent signs of attention. In despair, Caliban tries to take her by force. Prospero appears, saves his daughter and cruelly punishes Caliban. Caliban swears revenge.

Scene 4

Prospero prepares a meeting between Miranda and Ferdinand. Ariel brings Ferdinand to his senses. Waking up from the spell, the young people see each other and instantly fall in love.

Prospero watches them: this meeting is an important part of his plan. But he pretends to be against this union and enslaves the young man.

Scene 5

Alonso, Sebastian, Gonzalo and Antonio are lost on the island. Prospero and Ariel torment them with visions: the sight of these people is unbearable to Prospero.


Act II

Scene 6

Caliban wanders around the island before a thunderstorm. The surviving courtiers from the retinue of the Neapolitan king appear: Trinculo and Stephano. Caliban frightens them, but then they treat him to wine. Having tasted wine for the first time in his life, he takes them for gods who will save him from the tyranny of Prospero. Caliban leads his new masters to Prospero’s abode to kill him.

Scene 7

The spirits frolic, but Prospero interrupts their dances. Ariel brings Ferdinand and loads him with hard work.

Miranda watches Ferdinand slave away. His torment breaks her heart, she tries to ease his fate. Their love grows stronger.

It is hard for Prospero to see his daughter in the arms of a man, even the one he himself chose for her. On top of that, his offenders are on the island which revives the pains of the past. Prospero plunges into madness, leading everyone on the island into rage.


Act III

Scene 8

Prospero comes to. Following his plan, he unites Miranda and Ferdinand in marriage.

Scene 9

The celebration is over. Prospero awaits Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano, who are making their way into his abode. Taken by surprise, they flee in terror.

Scene 10

Antonio, Alonso, Gonzalo and Sebastian are despondent. Prospero appears to them in all the splendour of his power. But instead of execution, which they are ready to accept, he grants them his forgiveness. Alonso embraces his son and the beautiful Miranda.

The people leave the island.
Prospero releases Ariel and the spirits and grants freedom to Caliban.

Venue Info

Bolshoi Theatre - Moscow
Location   Teatralnaya Square 1

The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre (Small Theatre) in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg (Hermitage Theatre, Bolshoi (Kamenny) Theatre, later Mariinsky Theatre and others).

The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world. It is by far the world's biggest ballet company, with more than 200 dancers. The theatre is the parent company of The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, a world-famous leading school of ballet. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Theater School in Joinville, Brazil.

The main building of the theatre, rebuilt and renovated several times during its history, is a landmark of Moscow and Russia (its iconic neoclassical façade is depicted on the Russian 100-ruble banknote). On 28 October 2011, the Bolshoi re-opened after an extensive six-year renovation. The official cost of the renovation is 21 billion rubles ($688 million). However, other Russian authorities and other people connected to it claimed much more public money was spent. The renovation included restoring acoustics to the original quality (which had been lost during the Soviet Era), as well as restoring the original Imperial decor of the Bolshoi.

The company was founded on 28 March [O.S. 17 March] 1776, when Catherine II granted Prince Peter Ouroussoff a licence to organise theatrical performances, balls and other forms of entertainment. Ouroussoff set up the theatre in collaboration with English tightrope walker Michael Maddox. Initially, it held performances in a private home, but it acquired the Petrovka Theatre and on 30 December 1780, it began producing plays and operas, thus establishing what would become the Bolshoi Theatre. Fire destroyed the Petrovka Theatre on 8 October 1805, and the New Arbat Imperial Theatre replaced it on 13 April 1808, however it also succumbed to fire during the French invasion of Moscow in 1812.

The first instance of the theatre was built between 1821 and 1824, designed and supervised to completion by architect Joseph Bové based upon an initial competition-winning design created by Petersburg-based Russian architect Andrei Mikhailov that was deemed too costly to complete. Bové also concurrently designed the nearby Maly Theatre and the surrounding Theater Square, The new building opened on 18 January 1825 as the Bolshoi Petrovsky Theatre with a performance of Fernando Sor's ballet, Cendrillon. Initially, it presented only Russian works, but foreign composers entered the repertoire around 1840.

Important Info
Type: Ballet
City: Moscow, Russia
Starts at: 19:00
Acts: 3
Intervals: 1
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