About the matinee
Once a season, the big stage belongs to the next generation of ballet dancers.
As a highlight of dance training at the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy, students at all levels show what they have been working on over the past few months.
From the repertoire, La Bayadère after Marius Petipa is once again on the program - a masterpiece of Romanticism that offers roles that are as beautiful as they are challenging. With Prisma to music by Philip Glass, Christiana Stefanou presents a world premiere, while the youth company performs Martin Schläpfer's miniature ballet Quartz - a chamber play about closeness and distance, encounters and loneliness that gets under the skin.
Program
La Bayadère
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Choreography after Marius Petipa in an adaptation by Christiana Stefanou, Diliana Nikiforova, Robert Gabdullin, Alena Weber & Zsolt Elek
Musical arrangement Konstantinos Diminakis & Parviz Yahyavi
Costume design Maria Alati & Katrin Böge
Lighting Robert Eisenstein
Quartz
Music Rickie Lee Jones, traditional Albanian folk music & Marianne Faithfull
Choreography Martin Schläpfer
Lighting Robert Eisenstein
Violin Cristian Ruscior
Piano Konstantinos Diminakis
Prisma (world premiere)
Music Philip Glass
Choreography Christina Stefanou
Lighting Robert Eisenstein
