Vladivostok, Primorsky Stage, Great Hall

The Four Seasons

Ballet in three acts


Ballet in two acts

Performers

Kristina Shapran and Konstantin Zverev

Performed to recorded music

Credits

Music by Max Richter (based on the music by Antonio Vivaldi)

Choreographer and Set Designer: Ilya Zhivoi
Costume Designer: Sofia Vartanian
Design Technician: Alexei Tantsyrev
Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin

About the production

The Four Seasons is Ilya Zhivoi’s first full-length ballet. Ilya Zhivoi, a dancer with the Mariinsky Theatre and a regular participant of the Creative Workshop of Young Choreographers at the ballet festival Mariinsky, has been annually presenting new productions on his home stage since 2013. For the last season’s Creative Workshop, Zhivoi prepared a one-act SeasonS to music by Max Richter (featured on his album Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons). The music of the contemporary British composer Max Richter represents a 21st century interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s masterpiece. Richter kept the shapes, the textures and dynamics of the Vivaldi’s cycle, but in his interpretation the instrumental music of the Baroque hit meets electronic sounds. The Spring and Summer parts of the composer’s album were the basis for the premiere of SeasonS (2016). Continuing his choreographic exploration of Max Richter’s music, Ilya Zhivoi will present his two-act ballet at the Stars of the White Nights Festival–2017.


Premiere: 19 June 2017, Mariinsky Theatre

Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes
The performance has one intervals

Age category 6+

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