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Ballet to Music of

George Bizet

Libretto

 Nataliya Osipova

Choreography and Staging

Nataliya Osipova

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An eternal story about a man and a woman entwined by the threads of fate - a story in which every human being finds something of himself.

Concept

"Carmen" is a work born from the pen of Prosper Mérimée, which has excited many directors and choreographers many times since its creation until today. For the first time as a ballet, the plot was interpreted by Marius Petipa in 1845. After the creation of the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet, the choreographers' interest in this plot increased enormously. In the world of ballet, the ballets of Kassian Golezovsky, Roland Petit, Alberto Alonso and composer Rodion Shchedrin, choreographers Mats Ek and Matthew Born were born.

 

 

 

 

One of the latest interpretations is by the choreographer Natalia Osipova, who in 2013 offered the European audience her reading of the story of the captivating Carmen in her ballet "Carmen".

It is set to an original musical collage of Bizet's music - the timeless fragments of his opera, from his opera The Arlesian, supplemented with fragments of his little-known symphonic and chamber works. In the light of her choreographic appearance, Osipova combines the brightest features of classical dance and neoclassical, refracted through the expressiveness of modern dance.

 

The ballet "Carmen", with the libretto and staged by Nataliya Osipova, illuminates on stage the invisible force fueling Carmen's spirit, which predetermines her life and her death. In the combination of images, the contours of the image of Fate come to light - strong, irresistible, driving the drama to its fatal end, both respectful with its fearsome presence and fascinatingly seductive.

 

 

Like sparks born from the fire of Fate, the souls of all the characters of the drama flash and die - the soul of Jose - hopelessly in love with Carmen, the soul of the Toreador - in love with his own image and the soul of Carmen - in love with life and therefore forever doomed with the judgment of the time in which it is destined to exist.

 

Shadows and images, with which Fate plays the cruel game of life and death, rise in relief, through the power of music and dance, and, condemned to her all-powerful subjection, sink in the eddies of their characters.

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"Carmen is chosen by Fate for Love. This woman drives many crazy, she is passionate, beautiful, charming, you can say femme fatale... but at the same time she is naive like a child and no one really knows how lonely she is. How is looking for Love, Feelings, Mutual Understanding... but the most important thing for her is to remain herself, to search and find Love - not to lose herself... and not to become dependent... "I was born free,  I will die free.''

Fate pursues each of us... Throughout life, she often laughs at us, Fate is wayward and capricious, Fate can be evil and unfair, treacherous and cruel... "Oh, how can I understand the game of Fate?" We often call fate what is beyond our control...

Freedom in love is very important to Carmen. In our life we ​​always have choices, but we don't always make the right choices. My Carmen struggles with her destiny - therefore the price of her freedom is her life.

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Production Team and Cast

The young ballet artists from the troupe of

State Opera Ruse:

Carmen
Irena Barbukova


Don José

Giuseppe Sorrentino


Toreador
Davide Diodato


Fate

Thiago Victor Santana


With the special participation of:

Petya Tsoneva in the role of Carmen
Petar Kostov in the role of Don José
Alexander Krunev in the role of Toreador

 

Scenography – Sebastian Malash
Costumes – Natalia Osipova
Multimedia – Kasiyana Angelova, Kate Hester
Artistic lighting - Boyan Georgiev
Tutor - Anton Ivanov
Artistic director – Vesela Vasileva
Assistant director - Elena Koleva​

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Natalya Osipova is known as a prima ballerina at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, a ballet teacher at the State Theater in St. Petersburg, and currently a teacher in Lyon and an internationally renowned choreographer. She is a dancer, choreographer, ballet director, teacher of classical and characteristic dance.
Natalia has the opportunity to dance with some of the greatest
ballet artists as her partners – Delphine Mussin, Patrick Dupont, Marie-Claude Pietragala, Aurelie Dupont, Farukh Ruzimatov...
In 2009, Natalia chose France as her place of work and life. There she created her private ballet company "Natalia Osipova-St. Petersburg", and later opened her own dance school "C.I.A.N.O.", which offers qualified training in various dance styles. Today she is a freelance choreographer with productions in France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Kosovo, Bulgaria and is a ballet teacher in Lyon.

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