History
Ballet
The ballet troupe of the State Opera Ruse combines classical mastery and innovation. Created to enrich the cultural image of the city, the ballet troupe has established itself as a leading force in Bulgarian ballet and regularly presents exquisite performances on the Bulgarian and international stage.
Founding of the State Opera Ruse Ballet
The ballet of the State Opera-Ruse was founded in 1949. The first ballet production was Joseph Bayer's The Doll Fairy, presented on 7 March 1952. The director was Alexander Manolov. The pedagogue of the troupe is Patsy Bogatinova.
Creative path and collaboration with choreographers
The creative path of the Ruse Ballet troupe is long and rich. Its collaboration with famous Bulgarian and foreign choreographers ranks it among the most renowned and leading ballet troupes in the country. Ruse Ballet artists have worked with almost all the famous Bulgarian ballet masters - Assen Manolov, Assen Gavrilov, Petar Lukanov, Margarita Arnaudova, Kalina Bogoeva, Hikmet Mehmedov and the foreign choreographers Mercedes Pavelich, Giancarlo Vantaggio, Vytautas Grivitskas, Victor Vlase, Vilen Galstyan, Anton Fodor, Alain Bernard, Natalia Osipova, Konstantin Uralsky.
The high professionalism of the Ruse ballet dancers has always attracted Bulgarian choreographers of the new creative generation - Vesa Tonova, Kristian Bakalov, Angelina Gavrilova, Anna Doneva, Yordan Krastev, Assen Nakov and others.
Performances of the Ruse Ballet
The best representatives of Bulgarian ballet have danced in the performances of the Ruse Ballet over the years, as well as premier ballet dancers from some of the largest ballet companies in Romania, Cuba, Italy, France, and Germany. The ballet company has performed in many countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Dubai, Spain, France, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Repertoire of the Ruse Ballet
The repertoire of the Ruse Ballet is rich and varied. It includes titles from ballet classics, including "Giselle", "Don Quixote", "The Nutcracker", "Sleeping Beauty", "Swan Lake", as well as many works in the style of contemporary dance - "Carmina Burana", "The Goat's Horn" by Kr. Kurkczyski, "The Island of Freedom", "Revelations", "Flight to the Light", "Carmen" to music by J. Bizet, "Caлliope" by Emil Tabakov, "Fire" to music by Dm. Shostakovich and others. On November 11, 1985 on the stage of the Ruse Opera was the premiere of the first rock ballet in the country "The Rehearsal". Variations on a well-known theme" by the Hungarian choreographer Antal Fodor.
Management of the State Opera Ruse Ballet
Mariana Zaharieva is a long-time balletmaster of the Ruse Opera Ballet. After 2013, for several creative seasons, the chief artistic director and artistic director of the Ruse Ballet is Silvia Tomova. After her, the ballet troupe was briefly led by Rumen Rashev, and at the present moment the director of the Ballet of the Ruse Opera is the prima ballerina Vesela Vassileva.
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