Between 9 and 11 April, a series of five shows of The Snow Maiden to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be presented to ballet fans on the stage of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. Five shows - that is an excellent chance for everyone who loves this ballet to watch it. Several ballet dancers of the theatre will perform their roles in The Snow Maiden for the first time.

In the title role of the ballet - the Snow Maiden dreaming of overwhelming human love, the theatre’s principal dancer Natalia Bobrova will make her debut on Friday night, April 9: Yulia Lyakhovykh will dance the Snow Maiden for the first time on Saturday morning. On April 10 at noon, Marcello Pelizzoni will take the stage for the first time as the passionate merchant Mizgir, Matvey Nikishaev as the young singer Lel, and Ksenia Lyapina as Vesna (Spring), the mother of the Snow Maiden.

On April 9, Georgy Botenkov will make his debut in two parts at once: Santa Claus and Tsar Berendey; Olexiy Skalyun will perform the role of a Skomorokh for the first time.

Let us remind you that Tchaikovsky's ballet The Snow Maiden does not exist: there is only music for the fairy play A Spring Tale by Alexander Ostrovsky.
 The ballet Snow Maiden was staged for the first time in 1963 in Moscow; fragments of other works of Tchaikovsky were included in the score. The premiere of the Krasnoyarsk version took place in 2015 and was dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Tchaikovsky. In addition to the great composer’s music for A Spring Tale, it also includes some excerpts from his Four Seasons, Melancholic Serenade, First and Fourth Symphonies.