On December 1, 2022, Adolphe Adam’s Le Corsaire will be performed at the Primorsky Stage for the hundredth time. The ballet is a story of noble pirates and beautiful slave girls with gorgeous scenery worthy of great praise.
The primary parts will be performed by soloists of the Primorsky Stage Ballet such as Arina Nagase, Shizuru Kato, Lilia Berezhnova and Georgy Stelmakh. The baton will be held by Vitaly Shevelev.
The tumultuous, vivid, full of dancers, Le Corsaire will hit the taste of those who like a modest charm of classical ballets and those who prefer dynamic adventure stories. The ballet is an actually romantic story of noble corsairs and their adventures on the shore near Adrianople. It brings a spirit of freedom; sometimes the scene is a waste of waters with a sea rover sailed by pirates, and among them, there are female corsairs who do fencing with sabers while dancing perky, keeping up with the men. The corsairs’ leader, Conrad, rescues Medora, a slave girl bought by Seyd Pasha, and the lovers strike out boldly for new adventures.
The Primorsky Stage presents Le Corsaire choreographed by Eldar Aliev, Ballet Artistic Director, who has carefully handed down some traditional interpolations from Marius Petipa’s legendary productions. The music was written by the French composer Adolphe Adam, a founder of romantic ballet, whose music score was later supplemented with pieces by other composers.
Traditionally, the December playbill of the Primorsky Stage includes Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker choreographed by Eldar Aliev (December 15, 24-25, 27, 29-31, 2022), the colorful ballets A Thousand and One Nights (December 3, 2022) and The Sleeping Beauty (December 10, 2022), and the romantic ballets Giselle (December 8, 2022) and Swan Lake (December 17, 2022).
