Esmeralda

Esmeralda

Although the Italian composer Cesare Pugni (1802 – 1870) is best known as the creator of numerous ballets performed in all the most prestigious theaters of his time, from La Scala in Milan and the Paris Opera to the Royal Opera House in London and the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia, his current popularity is limited to only a few titles, among which La Esmeralda stands out. This three-act, five-scene ballet is inspired by Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris and was originally choreographed by Jules Perrot for the Royal Ballet in London in 1844. Pugni's Esmeralda has only recently become a work performed in its entirety in environments with a more prosperous ballet tradition, and it is mainly known to the general audience for two popular excerpts: La Esmeralda pas de deux and La Esmeralda pas de six.

By finally including Split on the map of such ballet environments, the choreographic duo Vasilij Medvedev and Stanislav Fečo will tell us the story of the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda, who marries the poet Pierre Gringoire to save him from the deadly hand of the gypsy king. They choreographed this version of Pugni's Esmeralda in 2018, at the invitation of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the ballet master and "father of classical ballet," Marius Petipa.

Choreographers

Vasilij Medvedev and Stanislav Fečo based on Marius Petipa

 

The performance is accompanied by an audio recording of the Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre Split, conducted by maestro Jure Bučević

Costume and Set Design

Pavol Juraš

Light Design

Srđan Barbarić

Sound Design

Petar Ivanišević

Ballet masters

Albina Rahmatullina, Elena Nikolaeva 

Stage Manager

Tetyana Borščagivska

Heading Design

Ankica Matijaš

Production Assistant

Gorenka Žižić Jagar

 

 

ESMERALDA

Irina Čaban Bilandžić

PHOEBUS DE CHATEAUPERS

Danijel Podhruško

FLEUR DE LYS

Hazuki Tanase

PIERRE GRINGOIR

Takafumi Tamagawa

DIANA i  BERANGER

(27.10.) Josephine Mansfield, Matea Milas / (28.10.) Valerie Lin, Rimi Mizouka

FLAURANT i ARMAND

(27.10.) Valerij Liubenko, Benjamin Cockwell / (28.10.) Valerij Liubenko, Matteo Valente

Esmeralda’s friends

Arisa Hirono, Yezi Jung, Irene Tomassetti, Ania Bartkowski

CLAUDE FROLLO

Igor Gluškov

QUASIMODO

Daniel Jagar

CLOPIN TROUILLEFOU

Ashatbek Yusupzhanov

MEGERA

Sanja Bikić