GALA RUSSE 2015
12 and 13 September 2015 Monaco, Grimaldi Forum |
In 1910 Dyaghilev, an incredibly talented entrepreneur who put all things Russian into fashion, settled down in Monaco. The work there was going really well: Mikhail Fokin staged ballets for Karsavina and Nijinsky and the audience of Monte Carlo was the first to see Petrushka by the music of Stravinsky.
Almost in one hundred years, in 2012 first GALA RUSSE with the stars of Bolshoi, Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Ballet Companies went on stage in Grimaldi Forum. This autumn GALA RUSSE again presented the audience of Monaco with a wonderful gift – on the stage of Grimaldi Forum sparkled the stars of ballet from the Bolshoi (Kristina Kretova, Anastasia Stashkevich, Anna Tikhomirova, Artem Ovcharenko, Mikhail Lobukhin, Semen Chudin, Olga Smirnova), Mariinsky (Philipp Stepin), Mikhailovsky (Irina Perren, Marat Shemiunov, Sabina Yapparova) Theatres. As an extra bonus for ballet lovers, there also sparkled a Cuban sensation, Osiel Guneo from the Norwegian National Ballet. The programme combined contemporary and up-to-date ballet pieces with the eternal classics.