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"Polovtsian Dances" to be staged in Baku

10 February 2017 [12:19] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Laman Ismayilova

Azerbaijan’s State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater will premiere one-act ballet "The Polovtsian dances" by composer Alexander Borodin on February 18, Trend Life reported.

The ballet will be performed by choreographer of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, Honored Artist of Russia Sergey Mokhnachev.

The art director is People's artist of Azerbaijan Rafis Ismayilov. The performance will be conducted by People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, Yalchin Adigezalov.

"The Polovtsian Dances" is an exotic scene at the end of Act II of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor.

The work remained unfinished when the composer died in 1887, although he had worked on it for more than a decade.

A performing version was prepared by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov, appearing in 1890. Several other versions, or "completions," of the opera have been made. The dances are performed with chorus and last between 11 and 14 minutes.

They occur in Act I or Act II, depending on which version of the opera is being used. Their music is popular and sometimes given in concert as an orchestral showpiece. At such performances the choral parts are often omitted.

The ballet fascinates with its beautiful Orient motives.

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