In the fall of 1941, A. Khachaturian began working on the score for a new ballet. The work took place in close collaboration with the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater, which was located in Perm at that time. The premiere took place on December 3, 1942 and was a great success. In 1957, at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, it was performed new production ballet The libretto was changed, and Khachaturian rewrote more than half of the previous music. Ballet entered the history of ballet art in our country. The music for it formed the basis of three large symphonic suites, and individual numbers of the suites, for example, “Sabre Dance,” became world famous.
The ballet “Gayane” is a work deeply folk in spirit, integral in musical language, marked by the extraordinary colorfulness of the instrumentation.
Plot:
Gayane, the daughter of the collective farm chairman Hovhannes, helps to catch and neutralize the Unknown, who secretly entered the territory of Armenia in order to steal the secrets of geologists. Her friends and her loving Gayane Armen help her in this. Armen's rival Giko pays with his life for unwittingly assisting the enemy.
Dark night. An unknown figure appears in a thick network of rain. Listening warily and looking around, he frees himself from the parachute lines. After checking the map, he makes sure that he is at his destination. The rain subsides. Far away in the mountains the lights of the village flicker. The stranger takes off his overalls and remains in a tunic with stripes for wounds. Limping heavily, he leaves towards the village. Sunny morning. Spring work is in full swing in the collective farm gardens. Slowly, lazily stretching, Giko goes to work. The girls of the best brigade of the collective farm are in a hurry. With them is the foreman - a young, cheerful Gayane. Giko stops the Girl. He tells her about his love, wants to hug her. A young shepherd, Armen, appears on the Road. Gayane joyfully runs towards him. High in the mountains, near the shepherds' camp, Armen found shiny pieces of ore. He shows them to the Girl. Giko looks jealously at Armen and Gayane. During rest hours, the collective farmers start dancing. They leave together. After work, Gayane’s friends gathered. Karen plays the tar. Girls perform an ancient Armenian dance. Kazakov enters. He stayed at Hovhannes's house. Gayane and her friends show Kazakov the flowery carpet they have woven and start a game of blind man's buff. A drunk Giko arrives. The game gets upset. The collective farmers are trying to persuade Giko, who is again pursuing Gayane, and advise him to leave. After seeing the guests off, the collective farm chairman tries to talk to Giko. But he does not listen to Hovhannes and annoyingly pesters Gayane. The angry girl drives Giko away. The geologists return from the hike with Armen. Armen's discovery is not an accident. A rare metal deposit was discovered in the mountains. Kazakov decides to examine him in detail. Giko, who lingered in the room, witnesses this conversation. The mineral prospectors are getting ready to set off. Armen tenderly gives his beloved girl a flower brought from the mountain slope. Giko sees this as he walks past the windows with the unknown man. Armen and Hovhannes go with the expedition. Kazakov asks Gayane to keep the bag with ore samples. Gayane hides it. Night has come. An unknown person enters Gayane's house. He pretends to be sick and falls exhausted. Gayane helps him get up and hurries to get water. Left alone, he jumps up and begins to look for materials from the geological expedition. Gayane, who has returned, realizes that she is facing an enemy. Threatening, the unknown person demands that she tell her where the geologists' materials are located. During the fight, the carpet covering the niche falls. There is a bag with pieces of ore. An unknown person ties up Gayane, takes a bag and, trying to hide traces of the crime, sets the house on fire. Fire and smoke fill the room. Giko jumps out the window. There is horror and confusion on his face. Seeing a stick forgotten by an unknown person, Giko realizes that the criminal is his recent acquaintance. He carries the girl out of the house engulfed in flames. Starry night. High in the mountains there is a camp of collective farm shepherds. A squad of border guards passes by. Shepherd Ishmael entertains his beloved girl Aisha by playing the pipe. Aisha begins a smooth dance. Attracted by the music, the shepherds gather. And here comes Armen. He brought geologists. Here, at the foot of the cliff, he found precious ore. Shepherds perform folk dance"Hochari." They are replaced by Armen. Burning torches in his hands cut through the darkness of the night. A group of mountaineers and border guards arrives. The mountaineers carry the parachute they found. The enemy has penetrated Soviet soil! There was a glow over the valley. There is a fire in the village! Everyone rushes there. The flames are raging. The figure of an unknown person flashed in the reflections of the fire. He tries to hide, but collective farmers are running from all sides towards the burning house. The unknown man hides the bag and gets lost in the crowd. The crowd subsides. At this moment, an unknown person overtakes Giko. He asks him to remain silent and gives him a wad of money for this. Giko throws money in his face and wants to apprehend the criminal. Giko is wounded but continues to fight. Gayane runs up to help. Giko falls. The enemy points his weapon at Gayane. Armen arrives in time and snatches a revolver from the enemy, who is surrounded by border guards. Autumn. The collective farm reaped a bountiful harvest. Everyone comes together for the holiday. Armen hurries to Gayane. On this wonderful day he wants to be with his beloved. Armena stops the kids and starts a dance around him. Collective farmers carry baskets of fruit and jugs of wine. Guests invited to the celebration from the fraternal republics arrive - Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians. Finally, Armen sees Gayane. Their meeting is full of joy and happiness. People flock to the square. Here are the old friends of the collective farmers - geologists and border guards. The best brigade is awarded a banner. Kazakov asks Hovhannes to let Armen go to study. Hovhannes agrees. One dance gives way to another. Nune and her friends dance, striking the ringing tambourines. Guests perform their national dances - Russian, dashing Ukrainian hopak, Lezginka, warlike mountain dance with sabers and others. Tables are set right there on the square. With their glasses raised, everyone praises free labor and unbreakable friendship
Soviet peoples , beautiful Motherland. The melodies of “Gayane” are permeated with intonations and singing folk songs; they are characterized by the peculiarities of the modal structure of Armenian music, rhythmic patterns, orchestral timbres, as if reproducing the sound folk instruments. Some features of Khachaturian’s music originate in the performing style characteristic of characters. The compositional and musical-dramatic techniques used by Khachaturian in “Gayane” are extremely diverse. Integral, generalized musical characteristics: portrait sketches, folk, genre pictures, nature paintings. They correspond to completed musical numbers, in the sequential presentation of which the features of a symphonic suite are often seen. The logic of development that unites independent musical images into a single whole is different. Thus, in the final picture, the larger dance cycle is united by the ongoing celebration. In some cases, the alternation of numbers is based on figurative, emotional contrasts of lyrical and cheerful, impetuous or energetic, courageous, genre and dramatic (see the first scenes of acts I and II). In the moments of the greatest tension of the action, for example, in the scene of Gayane with Giko (from Act II), when Gayane reveals his sabotage plans and tries to counteract them, in the scenes of the revelation of the conspiracy and the fire ( Act III), Khachaturian gives large symphonic episodes of end-to-end musical development, which corresponds to the very drama of the action. Musical and dramatic means are also clearly differentiated in the characteristics of the characters: integral portrait sketches episodic characters contrasted with the end-to-end dramatic musical development in the Gayane party; various dance rhythms underlying musical portraits Gayane's friends and family are opposed by Gayane's improvisationally free, lyrically rich melody. Khachaturian consistently applies the principle of leitmotifs to each of the characters, which imparts musical integrity and stage specificity to the images and the entire work.
BALLETS"GAYANE"
The history of this score goes back to the ballet “Happiness”, composed back in 1939...
“When I started composing my first ballet score, I knew absolutely nothing about the specifics of ballet as a musical genre. Already in the process of work, I quite quickly began to grasp and realize its characteristic features.
In a friendly conversation with the composer, the most prominent political figure of that time, Anastas Mikoyan, expressed a desire to create a ballet performance for the upcoming Decade of Armenian Art (it became one of the first in the Armenian musical theater and the first of the national ballets shown in the pre-war decades). This idea was fully consistent with the composer’s own creative aspirations. The theme of the ballet was born at the same time in a conversation with Mikoyan, who advised Aram Khachaturian to meet with the famous Armenian director Gevork Hovhannisyan, who recently wrote the ballet libretto “Happiness” about the life and work of Soviet border guards and collective farmers.
The deadlines were extremely tight. Khachaturian spent the spring and summer of 1939 in Armenia, collecting folklore material - this is where the deepest study of melodies began native land. 
The writer Maxim Gorky advised him to do this. Given the purely dance-like nature of the music, Khachaturian set himself the task of “symphonizing” the ballet. He wanted songs and dance melodies created by the people to organically enter the ballet, so that they were inseparable from all the music of the ballet. Thus, Khachaturian quickly realized and formulated the main principles of his musical and choreographic aesthetics.
Work on the score “Happiness” lasted only six months.
The famous conductor Konstantin Saradzhev, a student of Arthur Nikisch, took over the rehearsals. Everything was done to ensure that the tour of the Armenian Opera and Ballet Theater named after Spendiarov - the youngest in the country (he was still 6 years old at that time) - was as successful as possible within the framework of the Armenian decade. K. Sarajev assembled a magnificent orchestra. On October 24, 1939, the ballet “Happiness” was staged in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theater and literally captivated the audience. Many participants received government awards, and rave reviews continued to fill the newspaper pages.
However, this did not prevent the composer from soberly realizing some 
weak sides
“I lived in Perm on the 5th floor of the Central Hotel.
When I remember this time, I think again and again how difficult it was for people then. The front needed weapons, bread, shag... And everyone needed art - spiritual food - both the front and the rear. And we, artists and musicians, understood this and gave our all. I wrote about 700 pages of the Gayane score in six months in a cold hotel room where there was a piano, a stool, a table and a bed. This is especially dear to me because “Gayane” is the only ballet on a Soviet theme that has not left the stage for a quarter of a century...”“The Saber Dance,” according to the author himself, was born by accident. After the completion of the Gayane score, rehearsals began. Khachaturian was called by the director of the theater and said that in
last act
Whether you watch “Gayane” in the theater, or listen to this music in a concert or recording, the impression of it is born immediately and remains in your memory for a long time. Aram Khachaturian’s generosity, which has few analogues in the history of music, is melodic and orchestral, modal and harmonic generosity, generosity associated with the widest range of thoughts and feelings that are embodied in the score.
Three symphonic suites composed by Khachaturian from the ballet score contributed to the worldwide fame of the music of “Gayane”.
“The evening of the first performance of the First Suite from “Gayane” is firmly etched in my memories,” says singer N. Shpiller, “Golovanov conducted the All-Union Radio Orchestra.
Neither before nor after this day - it was October 3, 1943 - have I ever heard such a flurry of applause, such unconditional universal success of a new work, as then in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions.”
6 years later, the equally unanimous success of the music “Gayane” on the other side of the earth was glad to be stated by the great composer of the 20th century, Dmitry Shostakovich - in New York, at the All-American Congress of Scientists and Culture Workers in Defense of Peace, where the score “Gayane” was performed under the baton of the outstanding conductor Stokowski.
For the music for the ballet “Gayane” Aram Khachaturian was awarded the Stalin Prize, 1st degree. The ballet “Gayane” is notable, first of all, for the music of Aram Khachaturian, while experts rightly call the libretto stilted. It was written by screenwriter and librettist Konstantin Derzhavin in 1940 based on Khachaturian’s previous ballet “Happiness”. In “Gayane” the composer retained all the best that was in “Happiness” and significantly supplemented and developed the score. The ballet premiered in 1942, in Perm, where the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater was evacuated. Kirov. After Soviet theaters
So, experts consider the music to be the main advantage of “Gayane”. “While still working on the music for the ballet “Happiness,” Khachaturian turned to Armenian folklore,” we read in the book “History of Modern Russian Music.” – All this was included in “Gayane”. And although there are few actual folk melodies in the ballet, the intonational nature of Armenian music is recreated through rhythmic, mode-harmonic features, bringing the work closer to the tradition of Russian classical “music about the East.” By the way, it was for the ballet “Gayane” that Khachaturian wrote “The Saber Dance”, which is often performed as independent work. In terms of choreography, the ballet breaks up into separate performances. “Various solo numbers and duets, dramatic scenes, generally symphonized (“Cotton Picking”, “Cotton Dance”, “Dance of the Pink Girls” and others), folklore dances (“Lezginka”, “Russian Dance”, “Shchalakho”, “Uzundara”, “Gopak”) - all this composes a voluminous and contrasting score for the ballet" ("History of Contemporary Russian Music").
Why in Armenian history Is there a place for hopaku, Russian dance and other dances of the peoples of the USSR? At the end of this story, guests from the fraternal republics arrive at the Armenian collective farm for the harvest festival. But before that, on the mountain collective farm and its environs, a completely detective story. A spy parachutes into the mountains of Armenia. He will keep an eye on the geologists - they, with the help of the smart shepherd Armen, discovered deposits of rare and valuable ore not far from the collective farm. Naturally, vigilant Soviet collective farmers will expose the enemy. But in parallel with the spy story in the ballet, of course, it unfolds love story. Shepherd Armen and the daughter of the collective farm chairman Gayane love each other, but every now and then they have to repel the attacks of the jealous Giko, Gayane’s admirer.
Today “Gayane” seems to be a monument to a special era Soviet art, when the glorification of the brotherhood of peoples took on bizarre forms. But this does not prevent you from enjoying the mighty music of Aram Khachaturian and the high skill of the ballet dancers Bolshoi Theater.
Artist N. Altman, conductor P. Feldt.
The premiere took place on December 9, 1942 at the S. M. Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater ( Mariinskii Opera House), the city of Molotov (Perm).
Characters:
- Hovhannes, chairman of the collective farm
- Gayane, his daughter
- Armen, shepherd
- Nune, collective farmer
- Karen, collective farmer
- Kazakov, head of the expedition
- Unknown
- Giko, collective farmer
- Aisha, collective farmer
- Agronomist, collective farmers, geologists, border guards and the head of the border guard
The action takes place in Armenia in the 1930s of the 20th century.
Dark night. An unknown figure appears in a thick network of rain. Listening warily and looking around, he frees himself from the parachute lines. After checking the map, he makes sure that he is at the goal. The rain is subsiding. Far away in the mountains the lights of the village flicker. The stranger takes off his overalls and remains in his tunic with stripes for being wounded. Limping heavily, he goes towards the village.
1. Sunny morning. Spring work is in full swing in the collective farm gardens. Taking his time, Giko lazily goes to work. The girls of the best brigade of the collective farm are in a hurry. With them is the foreman - a young, cheerful Gayane. Giko stops her, talks about his love, wants to hug her. A young shepherd Armen appears on the road. Gayane joyfully runs towards him. High in the mountains, near the shepherds' camp, Armen found pieces of ore and shows them to Gayane. Giko watches them jealously.
During rest hours, collective farmers start dancing. Giko wants Gayane to dance with him and tries to hug him. Armen protects the girl from annoying advances. Giko is furious and is looking for a reason to quarrel. Grabbing a basket of seedlings, Giko furiously throws it and rushes at Armen with his fists. Gayane stands between them and demands that Giko leave.
A young collective farmer, Karen, comes running and announces the arrival of guests. A group of geologists led by the head of the expedition, Kazakov, enters the garden. An unknown person follows them. He hired out to carry the geologists' luggage and stayed with them. Collective farmers warmly welcome visitors. The restless Nune and Karen begin to dance in honor of the guests. Gayane also dances. The guests watch Armen's dance with admiration. The signal to start work sounds. Hovhannes shows visitors the gardens. Gayane is left alone. She admires the distant mountains and gardens of her native collective farm.
Geologists are returning. Armen shows them the ore. The find of the shepherd has interested geologists and they are going to explore. Armen undertakes to accompany them. An unknown person is watching them. Gayane tenderly says goodbye to Armen. Giko, seeing this, is overcome with jealousy. The unknown person sympathizes with Giko and offers friendship and help.
2. After work at Gayane’s friends gathered. Kazakov enters. Gayane and her friends show Kazakov the carpet they have woven and start a game of blind man's buff. A drunk Giko arrives. The collective farmers advise him to leave. After seeing the guests off, the collective farm chairman tries to talk to Giko, but he does not listen and annoyingly pesters Gayane. The girl angrily drives Giko away.
The geologists and Armen return from the hike. Armen's discovery is not an accident. A rare metal deposit was discovered in the mountains. Giko, who lingers in the room, witnesses the conversation. Geologists are getting ready to go. Armen tenderly gives Gayane a flower brought from the mountain slope. Giko sees this as he walks past the windows with the unknown man. Armen and Hovhannes set off along with the expedition. Kazakov asks Gayane to keep the bag with ore samples.
Night. An unknown person enters Gayane's house. He pretends to be sick and falls exhausted. Gayane helps him get up and hurries to get water. Left alone, he begins to look for materials from the geological expedition. Returning Gayane understands that she faces an enemy. Threatening, the unknown person demands that Gayane hand over the materials. During the fight, the carpet covering the niche falls. There is a bag with pieces of ore. An unknown person takes the bag, ties Gayane and sets the house on fire. Fire and smoke fill the room. Giko jumps out the window. There is horror and confusion on his face. Seeing a stick forgotten by an unknown person, Giko realizes that the criminal is his recent acquaintance. Giko carries Gayane out of the house engulfed in flames.
3. Starry night. High in the mountains there is a camp of collective farm shepherds. A squad of border guards passes by. Shepherd Ishmael entertains his beloved Aisha by playing the pipe. Aisha begins a smooth dance. The shepherds gather. Armen arrives, he brought geologists. Here, at the foot of the cliff, he found ore. Shepherds perform the folk dance “Khochari”. They are replaced by Armen. Burning torches in his hands cut through the darkness of the night.
A group of mountaineers and border guards arrives. The mountaineers carry the parachute they found. The enemy has penetrated Soviet soil! There was a glow over the valley. There is a fire in the village! Everyone rushes there.
The flames are raging. In its reflections the figure of an unknown person flashed. He tries to hide, but collective farmers are running from all sides towards the burning house. The unknown person hides the bag and gets lost in the crowd. The crowd subsided. An unknown person catches up with Giko, asks him to remain silent and gives him a wad of money for this. Giko throws money in his face and wants to apprehend the criminal. Giko is wounded but continues to fight. Gayane comes running to help. Giko falls. The enemy points his weapon at Gayane. Armen arrives in time and snatches a revolver from the enemy, who is surrounded by border guards.
4. Autumn. The collective farm reaped a bountiful harvest. Everyone comes together for the holiday. Armen hurries to Gayane. Armena stops the kids and starts a dance around him. Collective farmers carry baskets of fruit and jugs of wine. Guests invited to the holiday from the fraternal republics arrive - Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians. Finally Armen sees Gayane. Their meeting is full of joy and happiness. People flock to the square. Here are the old friends of the collective farmers - geologists and border guards. The best brigade is awarded a banner. Kazakov asks Hovhannes to let Armen go to study. Hovhannes agrees. One dance gives way to another. Nune and her friends dance, striking the ringing tambourines. The guests perform their national dances - Russian, dashing Ukrainian hopak.
Tables are set right there in the square. With their glasses raised, everyone praises free labor, the indestructible friendship of the Soviet peoples, and the beautiful Motherland.
At the end of the 1930s, Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) received an order for music for the ballet “Happiness”. A performance with a traditional plot for that time about happy life“under the Stalinist sun” he was preparing for the Decade of Armenian Art in Moscow. Khachaturian recalled: “I spent the spring and summer of 1939 in Armenia, collecting material for the future ballet “Happiness.” It was here that the deepest study of the melodies of my native land began, folk art" Six months later, in September, the ballet was staged at the Armenian Opera and Ballet Theater. A. A. Spendiarov, and a month later they showed it in Moscow. Despite its great success, shortcomings in the writing and musical dramaturgy were noted.
A few years later, the composer returned to work on music, focusing on a new libretto written by Konstantin Derzhavin (1903-1956). A revised ballet named after main character“Gayane”, was preparing for production at the State academic theater opera and ballet named after S. M. Kirov, but the Great Patriotic War ruined all my plans. The theater was evacuated to the city of Molotov (Perm), where the composer arrived to continue work.
“In the fall of 1941, I returned to work on the ballet,” Khachaturian recalled. - Today it may seem strange that in those days of severe trials we could talk about a ballet performance. War and ballet? The concepts are truly incompatible. But as life has shown, there was nothing strange in my plan to depict the theme of a great national upsurge, the unity of people in the face of a formidable invasion. The ballet was conceived as a patriotic performance, affirming the theme of love and loyalty to the Motherland. At the request of the theater, after finishing the score, I completed “Dance of the Kurds” - the same one that later became known as “Dance with Sabers”. I started composing it at three o'clock in the afternoon and worked without stopping until two o'clock in the morning. The next morning the orchestral voices were transcribed and a rehearsal took place, followed in the evening by a dress rehearsal for the entire ballet. “The Saber Dance” immediately made an impression on the orchestra, the ballet, and those present in the hall.”
The first performers of the successful premiere in Molotov were Natalya Dudinskaya (Gayane), Konstantin Sergeev (Armen), Boris Shavrov (Giko).
Music for the ballets "Gayane" and "Spartacus" is one of the best works Khachaturyan. The music of “Gayane” is distinguished by its wide symphonic development with the use of leitmotifs, bright national color, temperament and colorfulness. It organically includes authentic Armenian melodies. Gayane's lullaby, imbued with a tender feeling, is memorable. For many decades, the “Sabre Dance”, full of fire and courageous strength, was a real hit, reminiscent of “Polovtsian Dances” from the opera “Prince Igor” by Borodin. Constant trampling rhythm, sharp harmonies, whirlwind tempo help create bright image strong, brave people.
Musicologist Sofya Katonova wrote: “Khachaturian’s merit was both the reproduction of the characteristic traditions and genres of ancient Armenian art, and their transmission in a specific style of folk performance. It was important for the composer to address in “Gayane” modern theme, to capture not only the authentic features of the era, but also the appearance and mental makeup of their nation, borrowing its inspired creative manner reflections of the surrounding life."
The choreographer of the play "Gayane" Nina Anisimova (1909-1979) was a student of the famous Agrippina Vaganova, an outstanding character dancer of the Kirov Theater from 1929 to 1958. Before working on Gayane, Anisimova had experience staging only a few concert numbers.
“The theater’s approach to this musical work,” wrote ballet scholar Marietta Frangopulo, “expressed the aspirations of the Soviet choreographic art to the embodiment of heroic images and, in connection with this, an appeal to large symphonic forms. Bright music Khachaturian, full of drama and lyrical sounds, is replete with Armenian folk melodies, developed in the techniques of broad symphonic development. Based on the combination of these two principles, Khachaturian created his music. Anisimova set herself a similar task. "Gayane" is a performance with rich musical and choreographic content. Some ballet numbers - such as the duet of Nune and Karena, Nune's variation - were later included in many concert programs, just like “The Saber Dance,” the music of which is often performed on the radio. However, the inferiority of the ballet’s dramaturgy greatly weakened its impact on the viewer, which led to the need to rework the libretto several times and, in accordance with this, the stage appearance of the performance "
The first changes in the plot basis occurred already in 1945, when the Kirov Theater, returning to Leningrad, finalized “Gayane”. The prologue disappeared from the play, the number of saboteurs increased to three, Giko became Gayane’s husband. New heroes appeared - Nune and Karen, their first performers were Tatyana Vecheslova and Nikolai Zubkovsky. The scenography also changed, Vadim Ryndin became the new artist. The play was reworked at the same theater in 1952.
In 1957, the ballet “Gayane” was staged at the Bolshoi Theater with a new illustrative and naturalistic script by Boris Pletnev (3 acts, 7 scenes with a prologue). Choreographer Vasily Vainonen, director Emil Kaplan, artist Vadim Ryndin, conductor Yuri Fayer. The main roles at the premiere were danced by Raisa Struchkova and Yuri Kondratov.
Until the end of the 1970s, the ballet was successfully performed on Soviet and foreign stages. Among the interesting decisions, one should note Boris Eifman’s graduation performance (1972) at the Leningrad Maly Opera and Ballet Theater (the choreographer later created new editions of the ballet in Riga and Warsaw). The choreographer, with the consent of the music author, abandoned spies and scenes of jealousy and offered the viewer social drama. The plot told about the first years of the formation of Soviet power in Armenia. Gayane Giko's husband - the son of the kulak Matsaka - cannot betray his father. Gayane, who grew up in a poor family, sincerely loves her husband, but supports the new government headed by Armen. I remember how the “red wedge” of Komsomol members “historically” crushed Matsak. A concession to old stereotypes was the murder of a rich father own son. The premiere was danced by Tatiana Fesenko (Gayane), Anatoly Sidorov (Armen), Vasily Ostrovsky (Giko), German Zamuel (Matsak). The play ran for 173 performances.
In the 21st century, the ballet “Gayane” disappeared from theater stages, primarily due to an unsuccessful script. Certain scenes and numbers from Nina Anisimova’s performance continue to be performed annually in graduation performances of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. “Sabre Dance” remains a frequent guest on concert stages.
A. Degen, I. Stupnikov
On July 24, on the historical stage of the Bolshoi, the only performance dedicated to the anniversary of the great composer A.I. will take place. Khachaturian and the 100th anniversary of the First Armenian Republic! The President of Armenia and many Russian officials will be present at the Gayane ballet.
When
Where
Bolshoi Theatre, Teatralnaya metro station.
What is the price
Ticket prices range from 10,000 to 15,000 rubles.
Description of the event
2018 is full significant events related to Armenian statehood and culture! This year marks the 115th anniversary the greatest composer Aram Ilyich Khachaturian. Armenia also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the First Armenian Republic, and the ancient capital Yerevan celebrates its 2800th anniversary!
Naturally, all these events were an excellent occasion for a series of events designed to present Armenian culture in Russia in all its splendor. Thanks to the active work of the RA Embassy in the Russian Federation, which, with the arrival of the new ambassador, Vartan Toganyan in 2017, began to pay special attention close attention development of cultural and humanitarian ties between the two countries, after a break of almost 60 years, Moscow will see the ballet “Gayane” by Khachaturian on the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia!
Stunningly colorful sets and costumes, restored according to the sketches of the great artist Minas Avetisyan, will come from Yerevan along with the ballet and a magnificent orchestra, conducted by the Honored Artist of Russia, twice Grammy Award nominee - Konstantin Orbelyan! IN last time The ballet "Gayane" was staged at the Bolshoi Theater 57 years ago - in February 1961.
Who is it suitable for?
For adults and ballet fans.
Why is it worth going
- The only performance in Moscow
- The famous ballet returns to the Bolshoi Theater
- Significant event at which officials will be present