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Thursday, July 20, 2017
 
Crystal Palace: Ballet in a baroque ice palace
Crystal Palace: Ballet in a baroque ice palace
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European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC), a non-profit organisation which organises numerous cultural events - primarily in Malta, but also overseas - and supports various others, and in which Malta's Russian community is well represented. [...] asked composer Alexey Shor (right) - a naturalised Maltese citizen who was born in the former Soviet Union - to compose the ballet, which, unusually, also features singing.

The production, which marks the ballet's world première, will see the involvement of no less than the legendary Bolshoi Theatre, [...] Director Ekaterina Mironova and choreographer Alexander Somov both hail from the Muscovite theatre, as does the conductor, Pavel Klinichev, who will be directing the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra in its first involvement in a ballet production.

Three renowned ballet stars - Ivan Vasiliev, a regular guest principal at the Bolshoi, Milan's La Scala and New York's American Ballet Theatre; his wife and Bolshoi soloist Maria Vinogradova, as well as Bolshoi prima ballerina Maria Allash - will be playing the leading roles. The production will also feature Bolshoi Opera soprano Anna Aglatova, who is regularly featured in the theatre's opera productions, and stage and film actress Mariya Poroshina.

Shor describes this collaboration as a rare honour.

"Some of my most vivid childhood memories are from going to Bolshoi," he notes. "I can't even say that this is a 'dream come true', because I never even dreamt of working with Bolshoi dancers and musicians... it's an incredible honour, privilege and an opportunity." [...] "I'm not trying to reconstruct the music of 18th century Russia; but at the same time, my music definitely cannot be described as modern," the composer points out, describing it instead as the "18th century through the eyes of a person of our time."
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The première performance of Crystal Palace will be held on 21 July at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, starting at 8pm.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-07-17/newspaper-lifestyleculture/Crystal-Palace-Ballet-in-a-baroque-ice-palace-6736176679
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2017-07-17/newspaper-lifestyleculture/Crystal-Palace-Ballet-in-a-baroque-ice-palace-6736176679

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