Bolshoi Theater opens new 242d season with theatrical concert for kids, RIA Novosti reports.
Theatrical guide tour into the world of the symphony orchestra, uniting The Young Person’s Guide by Benjamin Britten and The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens awaits young audience on Sunday, September 24th. The principal conductor of Bolshoi Tugan Sokhiev has noted with pleasure that the performance staged by Alexei Frandetti is really original and will easy engage kids into the world of great music.
Alexei Frandetti, in his turn, has confessed that he asked if everything was clear his five-year old son who was next to him very often during rehearsals. The director hopes that audience of all ages will feel vides of every instrument and enjoy the performance.
Theatrical guide tour into the world of the symphony orchestra will be conducted on the beautiful New Stage of Bolshoi Theater.
It's worth mentioning that on the evening of Sunday 24th adults can enjoy another performance of Jewels ballet based on George Balanchine's choreography and music of G. Faure, I. Stravinsky and P. Tchaikovsky.
As for the further plans, there are two more premiers coming in October: classical Russian opera The Maid of Pskov by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov (opera concert performance, music director Tugan Sokhiev) and G.F. Handel's less known opera Alcina staged by Katie Mitchell, music director Andrea Marcon. The latter is a coproduction with Festival international d`art lyrique d`Aix-en-Provence (France).
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