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February’18
Tuesday 19:00
Romeo & Juliet
Ballet in two acts based on Shakespear's play to Tchaikovsky's music
St. Petersburg Tchaikovsky Ballet Theatre
St. Petersburg Tchaikovsky Ballet Theatre was founded in 2012 by a professional musician of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the orchestra of St. Petersburg State Philharmonia Pavel Elkin. For the position of the Artistic Director the graduate of the Vaganova Academy of Russian ballet, awarded with the medal “For achievements in culture” by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydkoy, choreographer Elizaveta Menshikova was invited.
Today the St. Petersburg Tchaikovsky Ballet Theatre is one of the leading companies of classical ballet, which repertoire includes such masterpieces of the world choreography as “Swan Lake”, “Nutcracker”, “Romeo and Juliet” by Tchaikovsky, “Coppelia” by L. Delibes.
The troupe consists of 53 professional dancers, among them there are graduates of the world famous Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and major Russian ballet schools.
The main professional ballet magazines such as “Ballet”, “Arts”, “Window to the Ballet” and others, by posting on their pages reviews from professional critics, in particular, noted: “They have a unity of style and elegance, which represents a unique “St. Petersburg style”; “… essentially, a young and energetic company, obviously, has been taught in the best Russian traditions, where not only soloists show high level, but the corps de ballet are of the highest class … “.