PREMIERE: THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER

The Long Christmas Dinner, based on Thornton Wilder's play of the same name and music by Vivaldi, and Women in D Minor, music by Bach, will be performed Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. The presentation of Radu Poklitaru's work is one of the brightest events in the dance calendar in Bulgaria for the year. Radu Poklitaru is the founder and chief choreographer of the Kyiv Academic Theater of Modern Ballet, honored figure of culture of Ukraine, People's Artist of Moldova, winner of numerous European international awards, professor at the Department of Modern Choreography at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. In addition to dozens of performances at the Kyiv Modern Ballet, over the years he staged ballet productions at the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the national operas of Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Serbia, etc. Since the beginning of the year, Radu Poklitaru has been part of the team of Opera Plovdiv. "The Long Christmas Dinner" is a ballet-reflection on the transitoriness of life, on the vain and useless things with which we fill the precious minutes, hours and years of our stay on Earth. The production follows ninety years of the life of an aristocratic family, passing in a series of Christmas dinners. Holiday after holiday, people's destinies dissolve into oblivion like day-old butterflies, leaving nothing behind. The bright, grotesque choreography to Vivaldi's music manages to reach the heart of every viewer and, without moralizing, ask the question - how do we differ from stage characters? The play "The Long Christmas Dinner" by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Thorton Wilder continues to be on the bill of a number of drama theaters in Europe and the United States, it was made into a film, and an opera by the composer Paul Hindemith.

"Women in D Moll" is a performance imbued with reverence for the genius of J.S. Bach. Radu Poklitaru tells a tragic story of a non-existent female friendship, which serves only as an excuse for the unfolding of unusually complex multi-figure compositions and piercing duet fragments. After Leo Muich's "Anna Karenina" earlier in the year, this is the second premiere project with which the Plovdiv Opera Ballet asserts its own bright signature, characterized by dynamics, expression and successful maneuvering between different dance styles.

Tickets for "The Long Christmas Dinner" and "Women in D Moll" are sold online at eventim.bg, at the box office of Opera Plovdiv and on the Eventim network.