Evening of one-act ballets: Illusive Ball. Class Concert Tickets

Stanislavsky Music Theatre, Moscow, Russia

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Available Dates: 6 - 7 Feb, 2026 (3 events)

Important Info

Type: Ballet

City: Moscow, Russia

Duration: 2h 10min with 1 interval

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Cast

Performers

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Creators

Composer: Daniel Auber

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Composer: Jacques Offenbach

Choreographer: Dmitry Bryantsev

Choreographer: Maxim Sevagin

Overview

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, located just 750 metres from the Bolshoi Theatre, presents "Illusive Ball" and "Class Concert" — an elegant evening of one-act ballets that celebrates the poetry of classical dance and the refined art of ballet performance. The programme brings together dancers whose professional paths are closely connected with the Bolshoi tradition: artists who have appeared on the Bolshoi stage and performers trained at the same leading academies that have shaped generations of Bolshoi soloists. Their shared school, precision of style and expressive clarity lend the evening a distinctly high artistic standard.

The programme for the new evening of one-act ballets will include Dmitry Bryantsev's "Illusive Ball" and Maxim Sevagin's "Class Concert".

The "Illusive Ball" on the music of Chopin was performed by Dmitry Bryantsev at the end of the 20th century. First, the choreographer composed «Romantic Duet» on the music of Chopin’s second piano concert. Over time, the choreographer supplemented the ballet with new episodes, consonant with the idea and atmosphere.

The second performance of the evening, "Class Concert", by Maxim Sevagin, the Ballet Company's Artistic Director, to music by D. Auber and J. Offenbach, is inspired by the aesthetic of classical ballet art. Mirrors, easel, white tutus, tights, and the structural elements of a classical lesson will become the main means of visual embodiment of the performance. According to Sevagin's idea, the music by Auber will be reserved for conventionally modern dancers - the ballerina, the premiere, the corps de ballet, and the dancers in the corps de ballet. They will have the difficult task of demonstrating their mastery of the academic school. Offenbach's suite inspired the choreographer to turn to the images of Anna Pavlova and Enrico Cecchetti, whose characters perform the inset pas de deux in a style that differs from the rest of the production. The performance will conclude with the distinctive feature of the class-concert format - a demonstration of the virtuoso technique of the company's ballet dancers.

Venue Info

Stanislavsky Music Theatre - Moscow
B. Dmitrovka, 17

The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre is a music theatre in Moscow.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre was founded in 1941 when two companies directed by the legendary reformers of twentieth-century theatre — Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko — merged: the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre (established at the end of 1918 as an Opera Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre) and the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (set up in 1919 as a Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre).

The new theatre followed the artistic principles of its founders, who applied the system of the Moscow Art Theatre to opera and ballet. Both Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko rejected the current conception of opera as «costume concert». They wanted to bring it closer to drama and comedy, revealing the main idea of the plot through psychologically motivated action. The ballet company entered the Theatre as a part of Nemirovich-Danchenko's troupe. It was the former company of the Moscow Art Ballet, established in 1929 by Victorina Krieger, the valued ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre. She was Artistic Director and one of the principal dancers of the Moscow Art Ballet. Soon after Stanislavsky's death, Nemirovich-Danchenko took charge of all the companies (Vsevolod Meyerhold invited by Stanislavsky to work for his theatre, was arrested in 1939, and no other stage director could prove equal to Nemirovich-Danchenko). Then the theatre was given its present name.