Dear guests!

In connection with the participation of the State Opera and Ballet Theatre “Astana Opera” in the pilot project Ashyq, we ask you to come to the performances in advance.

Please install the Ashyq application on your mobile device prior to visiting the Theatre.

Instructions:

1. Download and install the Ashyq application on your mobile device (App Store for iPhone, Google Play for Android).

2. Fill in your phone number and IIN.

3. When entering the Theatre, you have to select the ENTRANCE registration and scan the QR-code (ENTRANCE).

4. The system will determine the status of a visitor, which must be shown to the Theatre employee at the entrance.

Statuses:

Blue and Green – there are no restrictions on visiting our Theatre

Yellow – limited access to our Theatre, as they are exposed persons to COVID-19

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If the visitor has a “red” or “yellow” status, then the visitor is not allowed into the Theatre and, before the start of the performance, he/she returns the purchased tickets if there is a screenshot of the status.

To date, an algorithm has been developed for the actions of officials of the disease control and the internal affairs bodies when revealing the facts of violation of self-isolation by infected persons.

This algorithm was approved by the Interdepartmental Commission on 7 December 2020. Administrative liability is envisaged for such persons in the form of a fine.

5. If the visitor does not have the opportunity to independently check the status, then this procedure can be carried out by the Theatre employee using the “guard” mode – through the mechanical input of the IIN into the database with the consent of the visitor.

We sincerely hope for your understanding!

 

Age limit for performances in the Main Hall: 10+, for concerts in the Chamber Hall: 7+

We remind you that people over 65 years old are temporarily restricted to visit the theatre.

(In accordance with the Decree “On restrictive and quarantine measures in the city of Nur-Sultan” dated 02.02.2021 No. 5, clause 1.5. signed by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor Beisenova S.S.)

We also ask you to maintain social distancing and wear masks during the interval.

 

 

2020 / 2021                  Main Hall                  the 8th Season

6 July * Tuesday * 6.00 pm

7 July * Wednesday * 7.00 pm

 

The Silver Age Ballets

Choreography by Mikhail Fokine

 

Part 1

Chopiniana to the music of Frédéric Chopin

 

Part 2

Scheherazade to the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the talented choreographer Mikhail Fokine was a person who expressed new trends and new ideas in the Russian ballet. He greatly contributed to the Russian ballet art, expanded the circle of ideas and images, and enriched it with new forms and styles.

Artistic Director of the Astana Opera Ballet Company – Altynai ASYLMURATOVA, People’s Artist of Russia.

 

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CHOPINIANA

(one-act ballet to the music of Frédéric Chopin)

 

Choreography by Mikhail Fokine

Revised version by Agrippina Vaganova (1931)

Set and costume design based on original sketches by Alexandre Benois and Orest Allegri

 

 

PRODUCTION GROUP

Ballet Master – Producer: Altynai Asylmuratova, People’s Artist of Russia

Conductor: Arman Urazgaliyev

Assistants Ballet Masters – Producers: Konstantin Zaklinsky, Honoured Artist of Russia / Elena Sherstneva

Set Design: Victor Carare

Costume Designer: Arassel Dosmuratova

Lighting Designer: Vincenzo Raponi

 

 

In 1908, Mikhail Fokine composed a non-narrative ballet sketch. As the choreographer wrote, it was “in the style of that long-forgotten time, when ballet was governed by poetry, when a dancer rose en pointe not to demonstrate the steel-like arch of her foot, but in order to create the impression of lightness, barely touching the ground, something ethereal and fantastical… I have tried not to surprise people with the novelty, but rather to restore the conventional ballet dancing to the point of its greatest advances. I don’t know how our ballet predecessors danced. And no one else knows that. But in my dreams this is precisely how they did dance.”

The entire suite, woven by the choreographer of fleeting visions consonant with Chopin’s music, captivate the audience by its pensive beauty.

 

 

LEAD ROLES AND PERFORMERS

6 JULY

Young Man:  Yerkin RAKHMATULLAYEV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Seventh Waltz:  Shugyla ADEPKHAN

Eleventh Waltz:   Adelina TULEPOVA

Prelude:  Bakytgul ISPANOVA

 

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7 JULY

Young Man: Yerkin RAKHMATULLAYEV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Seventh Waltz: Shugyla ADEPKHAN

Eleventh Waltz:  Moldir SHAKIMOVA

Prelude:  Mariko KITAMURA

 

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SCHEHERAZADE

one-act choreographic drama to the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

 

Scenario by Mikhail Fokine

after the Arabian Nights fairytales

Choreography by Mikhail Fokine (1910). Reconstruction by Andris Liepa

Sets and costumes after original sketches by Léon Bakst

 

 

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Choreographer  Andris Liepa, People’s Artist of Russia

Assistant Choreographer  Svetlana Romanova

Conductor   Arman Urazgaliyev

Set Designer   Anatoly Nezhny

Costume Designer   Elena Netsvetaeva-Dolgaleva

Lighting Designer    Vitaly Davydkin

 

 

The bored Sultan Shahryar is being entertained by odalisques and his beloved wife Zobeide. The Sultan’s younger brother Shakhezman is also here, he lost faith in women after his beloved wife betrayed him. He does not believe his brother’s wives either and offers his brother to test their loyalty. Both Sultans go hunting, while their wives touchingly bid farewell to them. Almost as soon as the Sultans are gone, the wives bribe the Chief Eunuch who opens the door of the harem. Black slaves burst in, and shameless depravity begins. Zobeide reigns here, having fun with her beloved Slave. In the midst of such “merrymaking”, the brothers return. Shakhezman triumphs, Shahryar is enraged and orders to execute everyone on the spot. Sultan’s servants kill the odalisques, eunuchs and black slaves. Sultana Zobeide, whom her spouse Shahryar believed more than himself, relies on her power over him and tries to appease him. The Sultan is unable to give the order to execute her. However, his cunning brother contemptuously points at Zobeide’s hacked to death lover. Shahryar gives a sign to the executioners, but his wife manages to grab a dagger from him and takes her own life. Shahryar cries over the dead body of his unfaithful, but beloved woman.

 

LEAD ROLES AND PERFORMERS

6 JULY

Shahryar: Zhanibek IMANKULOV

Shakhezman:  Ildar SHAKIRZYANOV

Zobeide: Anastasia ZAKLINSKAYA

The Golden Slave: Bakhtiyar ADAMZHAN, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Chief Eunuch:  Olzhas MAKHANBETALIYEV

 

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7 JULY

Shahryar: Zhanibek IMANKULOV

Shakhezman:  Ildar SHAKIRZYANOV

Zobeide: Gaukhar USSINA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

The Golden Slave: Serik NAKYSPEKOV

Chief Eunuch: Olzhas MAKHANBETALIYEV

 

BALLET DANCERS, THE ASTANA OPERA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

 

Running time – 1 hour 30 minutes

 

Management reserves the right to substitute artists