Gala concert of ballet soloists of SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana
The program features selected excerpts from renowned ballet and opera-ballet titles that move between the fantastical, the romantic and a critical reflection on society.
Program excerpts from the ballets:
Alice in Wonderland to the music of Carl Davis after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography by Howard Quintero Lopez
Le Corsaire to the music of Adolphe Adam in choreography by José Carlos Martínez
The Great Gatsby to the music of Philip Glass, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and others, and Hamlet to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Camille Saint-Saëns in choreography by Leo Mujić
Don Quixote to the music of Ludwig Minkus in choreography by Denys Matvienko
Doctor Zhivago to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alfred Schnittke, Pēteris Vasks and Nikolai Myaskovsky in choreography by Jiří Bubeníček
Manon Lescaut, a ballet excerpt from the opera production, to the music of Giacomo Puccini in choreography by Lukas Zuschlag
Die Fledermaus (The Bat), a ballet excerpt from the opera production, to the music of Johann Strauss II in choreography by Lukas Zuschlag