Hoffman’s New Year Tale Comes Alive In Ashgabat
On the eve of the New Year, it is especially pleasant to go into a fairy tale, where there is an enchanted prince, lemonade rivers flow and candy cities rise, and different miracles happen to the heroes ...
This Saturday, on December 28, the Cultural Center of the Oil-and-Gas Complex in Ashgabat will host the New Year’s theater fairy tale, based on the fantasy story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King written by Hoffmann, where everybody is invited.
Against the backdrop of festive scenery, fragments of a colorful ballet set to music by the outstanding composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who keeps inspiring stage masters to create new performances will be staged.
The State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan conducted by Rasul Klychev will accompany the fairy-tale characters on stage. The reading of Vasily Andronov of the fairy tale itself will feature the theatrical performance.
“The artists will perform variations from the ballet of Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish dances,” artistic director Rasul Klychev says. “And the coda is the most virtuosic part of the variation.”
According to critics, among the musical works of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker has a special place, since it stands apart from the tradition of the ballet genre. It also uses innovative musical images of heroes.
The symphony orchestra will not be limited to one performance and invites the residents of Ashgabat to go into the fairy tale again on January 11.
