Le Corsaire

Корсар

Le Corsaire is a vibrant and breathtaking production reworked by Alexei Ratmansky, with cinematic sets and a shipwreck, loosely based on Byron’s poem One of Bolshoi’s most lavish productions follows the story of a dashing pirate who rescues a beautiful girl from a slave trader. Bolshoi’s Prima Ballerina Ekaterina Krysanova as Medora and Leading Soloist Igor Tsvirko as Conrad enhance the magnificent and opulent ballet.

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Actors

Медора, молодая гречанка, воспитанница Исаака Ланкедема

Ekaterina Krysanova

Конрад, корсар

Igor Tsvirko

Сеид-паша

Aleksey Loparevich

Бирбанто, один из главных корсаров

Denis Savin

Зюльма, любимая султанша паши

Nelly Kobahidze

Гюльнара, невольница паши

Darya Khokhlova

Исаак Ланкедем, хозяин базара

Gennadiy Yanin

Солист в Танце с веерами / Grand pas des eventails

Artemiy Belyakov

Crew

Хореография

Marius Petipa

Постановка и новая хореография

Aleksey Ratmanskiy, Yuri Burlaka

Художник-постановщик

Boris Kaminskiy

Художник по костюмам

Elena Zaiceva

Дирижер-постановщик

Pavel Klinichev

Художник по свету

Damir Ismagilov

About

Libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
and Joseph Mazilier edited by Marius Petipa

Use is made in the production of music by Leo Delibes, Cesare Pugni, Pyotr von Oldenburg, Riccardo Drigo, Albert Zabel, Julius Gerber.
Music dramaturgy conception — Yuri Burlaka
Score restored by Alexander Troitsky
The original score by Adolphe Adam/Leo Delibes for Le Corsaire has been made available by L’Opera national de Paris from the archives of La Bibliotheque nationale de France
The choreographic notation has been made available by the Harvard University Theatre Collection
Evgeny Ponomaryov’s costume sketches (1899) used in the production have been made available by the St. Petersburg State Theatre Library