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The prologue takes place in Aquileia, a Roman city, and in Adriatic lagoons. The events of Acts 1, 2, and 3 take place near Rome in 452 – 453 AD.Continue readingАttila

The action occurs in Rome on 17 June 1800.Continue readingTosca

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on “La Dame aux camélias” novel by Alexandre Dumas – fils. First performance – Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 6 March 1853. At the Astana Opera House, the premiere took place on 22 October 2014.Continue readingLa Traviata

The story is set in Memphis and Thebes, during the reign of pharaohs.Continue readingAida

Libretto by Mukhtar Auezov. The premiere performance took place at the Abai State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on 24 December 1944. At the Astana Opera House, the premiere took place on 25 September 2015.Continue readingAbai

Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on David Belasco’s drama “Geisha”. Premiere performance took place on February 17, 1904 at La Scala. The premiere took place at the Astana Opera on 15, 16 April 2016.Continue readingMadama Butterfly

Libretto by Gabit Musrepov based on the eponymous Kazakh folk poem. Premiere at the Abai Opera and Ballet Theatre: 7 November 1934. Premiere at the Astana Opera House: 10-11 February 2017.Continue readingKyz Zhibek

Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on an eponymous novella by Prosper Mérimée. World premiere: 3 March 1875 at the Opéra-Comique, Paris. First performance at the Astana Opera House: 17-18 November 2017.Continue readingCarmen

Libretto by Kazhym Jumaliyev.Continue readingBirzhan – Sara

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni based on the eponymous fairy tale by Carlo Gozzi. First performance: 25 April 1926, Milan. Premiere at the Astana Opera House: 22-23 June 2018.Continue readingTurandot

Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the eponymous comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais.Continue readingIl barbiere di Siviglia

Libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on the eponymous novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin. World premiere: 17 March 1879, Maly Theatre, Moscow. Premiere at the Astana Opera House: 8, 9 February 2019.Continue readingEugene Onegin

Libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa based on the libretto by François Planard, written for the eponymous opera by Pierre Gaveaux (1808). The first performance took place at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 9 May 1812.Continue readingLa scala di seta

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The premiere took place at the Teatro Regio di Torino on 1 February 1896. Premiere at the Astana Opera House: 19, 20 April 2019.Continue readingLa bohème

Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle based on the eponymous drama by Friedrich Schiller. World premiere: Paris Opera, 11 March 1867. Premiere at the Astana Opera House: 11, 13 October 2019.Continue readingDon Carlos

Libretto by Marius Petipa and Ivan Vsevolozhsky based on the fairy tales by Charles Perrault.Choreography by Marius Petipa. The premiere took place at the Mariinsky Theatre on 3 January 1890.Continue readingSleeping Beauty

Music by Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet. The premiere took place on 22 November 2011. At the Astana Opera House, the premiere took place on 22 November 2013.Continue readingRodin

Libretto by Charles Jude based on the eponymous tragedy by William Shakespeare. The premiere took place at the S. Kirov State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on 11 January 1940 (Leningrad).Continue readingRomeo and Juliet

Libretto by Yury Grigorovich based on motifs from the novel by Raffaello Giovagnoli and on events from ancient history, with use of Nikolay Volkov’s scenario. The premiere took place at the Bolshoi Theatre on 9 April 1968 (Moscow).Continue readingSpartacus

Based on the eponymous tragedy by Mukhtar Auezov. The premiere took place at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre “Astana Opera” on 5 December 2014.Continue readingKaragoz

Libretto by Yuri Grigorovic, after the fairy tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (based on the original scenario by Marius Petipa). The first performance was held on 12 March 1966 at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.Continue readingNutcracker

Libretto by Nikolai Volkov based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin. Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov. The premiere took place at the S. Kirov State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on 28 September 1934 (Leningrad).Continue readingThe Fountain of Bakhchisarai

Libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov. Choreography by Marius Petipa. Revised by Vladimir Ponomaryov and Vakhtang Chabukiani, with dances by Konstantin Sergeyev and Nikolai ZubkovskyContinue readingLa Bayadère

Libretto and Choreographer by Roland Petit based on the novel by Victor Hugo. The premiere at the Paris Opera: 11 December 1965. The premiere at the Astana Opera House: 24-25 June 2016.Continue readingNotre Dame de Paris

Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the plot of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel. Choreography by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky. World premiere: 14 December 1869, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (choreography by Marius Petipa).Continue readingDon Quixote

Libretto by Kenneth MacMillan, after L’Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by A.F. Prévost. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.Continue readingManon

Libretto by Vladimir Begichev and Vasily Geltser. Choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.Continue readingSwan Lake

Libretto by Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yuri Slonimsky and Pyotr Gusev based on the eponymous poem by George Byron. Choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Altynai Asylmuratova.Continue readingLe Corsaire

Philosophical reflection on time and its specific moments.Continue reading21st-century Ballets

Chopiniana to the music of Frédéric Chopin, Scheherazade to the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the talented choreographer Mikhail…Continue readingMikhail Fokine’s Ballets from the cycle The Silver Age Ballets

Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Théophile Gautier, Jean Coralli. Choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa.Continue readingGiselle

Libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon based on the novel Der Sandmann by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Choreography by Roland Petit.Continue readingCoppélia

Ballet to the music of L.V. Beethoven, J.S. Bach, F.J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart, D.P. Haubrich. The premiere took place at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre “Astana Opera” on 14-15 February 2020.Continue readingBEETHOVEN – IMMORTAL – LOVE