The gala concert «Five Epochs of World Ballet» is a finely crafted score where time loses its chronological order and takes on a plastic form. Leading soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre — Denis Rodkin and Eleonora Sevenard — in dialogue with the artists of the Musical Theatre named after K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich‑Danchenko, accompanied by the DYP Orchestra under the direction of Pyotr Dranga, create a cohesive artistic statement and make the evening truly profound and unforgettable.
The program develops as a succession of aesthetic states: from the oriental sensuality of «Scheherazade» by Nikolai Rimsky‑Korsakov to the extreme metaphorics of «The Dying Swan» by Camille Saint‑Saëns and the plastic demonism of Woland in Mikhail Bulgakov’s work. The Spanish line in Georges Bizet’s music introduces the drama of passion, whereas the classical canon — Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and César Pugni’s Esmeralda — affirms the ideal as a delicate balance of form and illusion.
The intonation of the 20th century is heard in Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka — an image of inner fracture and loss of integrity. The final accents — the lyrical fluidity of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the tragic climax of love in Sergei Prokofiev’s «Romeo and Juliet» — take the action into the realm of universal meanings.
«Five Epochs of World Ballet» is not a retrospective, but an intellectually precise gesture in which ballet is revealed as a timeless language that unites myth, history, and personal experience in a single stage form.