OCTOBER 2010- Leporello in Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow

BOLSHOI THEATRE

Moscow

DON GIOVANNI

W.A. Mozart

28.10.2010

29.10.2010

30.10.2010

31.10.2010

02.11.2010

03.11.2010

DON GIOVANNI:

Franco Pomponi / Dimitrios Tiliakos

LEPORELLO:

David Bizic / Guido Loconsolo

DON OTTAVIO:

Colin Balzer / Rainer Trost

ZERLINA:

Kerstin Avemo / Alina Yarovaya

COMENDATORE:

Anatoli Kotscherga / Leonid Zimnenko

DONNA ELVIRA:

Ekaterina Shcherbachenko / Veronika Dzhioeva

DONNA ANNA:

NN / Birgitte Christensen

MASETTO:

NN /Nikolai Kazansky

CONDUCTOR:

Teodor Currentzis

DIRECTOR:

Dmitri Tcherniakov

The Bolshoi is the second biggest opera house in Europe (after La Scala), and grandeur and artistic strength are combined in everything from the impressive statue of Apollo that crowns the facade to the ballet's famously muscular style of choreography. The building itself is one of Moscow's most symbolic sites, a truly impressive example of Russian Classical architecture that faces the Kremlin walls, and some fairly tacky open air bars and restaurants, with proud indifference. The company of the Bolshoi was originally founded in 1776 by Prince Peter Urusov and English impresario Michael Maddox as the Moscow Public Theatre. Maddox became the sole owner in 1780, and a building was constructed for the company on Petrovskaya (now Teatralnaya) Square. Fire destroyed the building in 1805, ruining Maddox and bringing the theatre under Sate control, to be renamed the Imperial Theatre. The company was briefly housed in a wooden building on Great Arbat Square, but this also succumbed to fire during Napoleon's invasion of 1812, and in 1824 Petrovskaya Square was rebuilt in the Classical style, with a new building for the theatre designed by Osip Bove. At the time it was second only to La Scala in size, with a 2,200-seat auditorium. The Bolshoi Theatre became a dominant force in ballet not just in Russia but throughout the world, producing star after star including ballerinas Galina Ulanova, Maria Plisetskaya, and Ekaterina Maksimovna, and male dancers such as Vladimir Vasiliev and Maris Liepa.

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