Kyz Zhibek

2021 / 2022                 Main Hall                  the 9th Season

28 October * Thursday * 6:00 pm

 

OPENING OF THE THEATRE FESTIVAL

NUR-SULTAN THEATRE WEEK

 

The Main Hall of the Astana Opera House will host the opening of the annual Theatre Festival “NUR-SULTAN THEATRE WEEK”, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The organizer of the festival is the Akimat of Nur-Sultan city.

Festival participants: Kuanyshbayev Kazakh State Academic Music and Drama Theatre, M. Gorky State Academic Russian Drama Theatre, Zhastar Theatre, Astana Ballet Theatre, Ye. Rakhmadiyev State Academic Philharmonic, Musical Theatre for Young Spectators and Nomad City Hall Theatre named after Azerbaijan Mambetov. A special guest of the festival is the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre.

The rich festival programme features theatrical performances from the golden fund of the capital's theatres, open workshops from the best theatrical figures of Kazakhstan: direction, acting techniques, scenic speech, scenic movement, performance training, etc., as well as art exhibitions and creative concerts of the capital artists.

The opening ceremony of the Theatre Festival “NUR-SULTAN THEATRE WEEK” will take place on the stage of the State Opera and Ballet Theatre “Astana Opera” before the performance of the opera Kyz Zhibek by Ye. Brusilovsky.

 

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Yevgeny Brusilovsky

Kyz Zhibek

Opera in 2 acts and an epilogue

 

Libretto by Gabit Musrepov

 

Author of the New Musical Version, Music Director and Conductor – Abzal Mukhitdin, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Conductor –      Ruslan Baimurzin

Producer –     Mikhail Pandzhavidze

Set Designers –     Sofia Tasmagambetova, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan / Pavel Dragunov, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Choirmaster –        Yerzhan Dautov, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Choreographer – Producer –Mukaram Avakhri, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Projection Designer –    Pavel Suvorov

Lighting Designer –     Sergei Shevchenko

Consultant – Askhat Mayemirov, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Assistant Director –    Yerenbak Toikenov

Assistant Costume Designer –      Arassel Dosmuratova

Head of Children’s Choir –       Altynganym Akhmetova

 

The first Kazakh opera Kyz Zhibek was staged at the Kazakh Musical Theatre (now, the Abai State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre) in 1934, and was immediately recognized as a gem of the national musical art. The well-known conductor Abzal Mukhitdin and director Mikhail Pandzhavidze offer the audience a new reading of the national classical opera. Thanks to 3D technologies, the pages of the folk lyric and epic poem Kyz Zhibek come to life in the eyes of the audience: the projected moving caravan unexpectedly continues to go on stage, turning into real horses and camels. City walls, created by designers almost in full size, slide apart in an instant to present a vivid picture of life going on in the square in front of the Palace of Bazarbai. Bright costumes, video installations, the lighting designer’s interesting work, and most importantly - music - that we all know and love since our childhood, beautiful voices of soloists and harmonious sound of the orchestra make the production of Kyz Zhibek unforgettable.

 

ROLES AND PERFORMERS

Zhibek – Zhamilya JARKIMBAYEVA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Tulegen – Meir BAINESH, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Bekezhan – Talgat GALEYEV

Shege  – Beimbet TANARYKOV

Bazarbai – Zhanat SHYBYKBAYEV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Kamka – Gulzhanat SAPAKOVA

Karlygash – Assem SEMBINA

Batsaiy – Saltanat MURATBEKOVA

Duriya – Bibigul ZHANUZAK, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

 

Running time of the play: 2 hours 20 minutes (with one interval)

 

Performed in the Kazakh language

(Accompanied by synchronized Russian and English subtitles)

 

ORCHESTRA, CHORUS, BALLET, EXTRAS AND PUPILS OF THE CHILDREN’S STUDIO OF THE ASTANA OPERA HOUSE

 

Management reserves the right to substitute performers