Prince IgorAleksandr Borodin

Performance: 15 October 2011
Performed: in the Russian language
Duration: 3 hours with one interval
Premiere: July 13, 1996

Opera in 2 acts with prologue and epilogue

Libretto: Aleksandr Borodin on the motives of the poem "The Lay of Igor's Host"
Production Director: People's artist of Belarus,
Laureate of State Prize of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Anisimov
Stage version and direction: People's Artist of Russia Uriy Aleksandrov

Production Artist: Ludmila Goncharova
Costume Designer: Eleonora Grigoruk
Choirmaster: People's Artist of Belarus Nina Lomanovich
Choreography: Mikhail Fokin
Production Ballet Master: Pavel Stalinskiy
Conductors: the Honoured Art Worker of the Republic of Belarus Nikolay Kolyadko, Vyacheslav Volich, the Honoured artist of Ukraine Viktor Ploskina

The history of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus
The National Opera and Ballet Theatre was opened on May 25 1933. But its history began in 1920s on the stage of the National Drama theatre, that had the opera soloists, choral and ballet troupe and a small symphonic orchestra in its structure. Already then musical-drama performances, parts of operas and ballets were created and national music was played.

In 1920s future stars of belarussian opera and ballet were trained in Minsk, Vitebsk, Gomel technical schools. And also in National Studio of opera and ballet, created in 1930, that was headed by a famous singer by Anton Bonachich, who was formerly Shalyapins partner in performances in Mariinsky Theatre. For 3 working years professional actors were prepared and operas “Golden Cockerel”, “Carmen”, “Eugeny Onegin”, “Tsar’s Bride” were staged.

In 1933 in Minsk the National Opera and Ballet Theatre was opened with the performance “Carmen”. Belarus found its highly professional centre of musical-drama creativity and performing art, joined a European opera inheritance, and joined a world cultural progress.

Fist performances – “ Carmen”, “Eugeny Onegin”, “the Queen of Spades”, “the Red Poppy” were in 1933. The first theatre figures were Gitgartz ( creative direcor), Petrov (a conductor), Borisovich ( a director), Kramarevsky (a choreographer); singers: Aleksandrovskaya, Mlodek, Druker, Bolotin, Denisov; ballet soloists: Nikolaeva, Usunova, Herasko, Drechin and other.

The ballet studio was working at the theatre, where the most talented children and the participants of amateur group from all over the republic were studying.

The theatre building on the Trinity Hill was open on May 10 1939 with the premiere of the opera by belarussian composer Eugene Tsikotsky “Mihas Podgorny”, that was built by the project of a famous architect Iosif Langbard. The first ballet performance, showed in 1939 on stage of a new building, was “the Swan Lake” in production of Muller, who graduated from St. Petersburg’s choreographic college, who danced the leading parts in the biggest theatres of the country. The ballet troupe consisted of more than 100 people, whose professional preparation was pretty high.

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