2022 Nureyev Gala in Vienna
Date: 26 June 2022
On Sunday 26 June 2022
The Vienna State Ballet’s Nureyev Gala, introduced as the season’s finale by Manuel Legris in 2011, will be continued in alternate years under Martin Schläpfer: “As a bow to this truly exceptional dancer, but also to the work of my predecessor Manuel Legris”, said Martin Schläpfer. In memory of Nureyev, whose influence in Vienna was so strong, not only knowing how to make Russian narrative ballets sparkle but also working together with many leading contemporary choreographers and always being open to new things, in its 2022 Gala, the Vienna State Ballet will present historic work by Marius Petipa alongside contemporary ballet by Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, George Balanchine’s glittering virtuoso »Allegro brillante« and the »Songs of a Wayfarer« created especially for Nureyev by Maurice Béjart alongside Martin Schläpfer’s »Hungarian Dances«. Hans van Manen will entrust the students of the Ballet Academy with his ensemble piece »Unisono«.
In future, forms other than classical and modern dance shall also have a place at the Nureyev Gala. The first of these will be provided by David Coria, an artist whose unique elegance, breath-taking virtuosity and compelling aura makes him one of the outstanding flamenco dancers in Spain. The acclaimed star of Stuttgart Ballet Friedemann Vogel will also return to Vienna as a guest alongside Guillaume Côté from The National Ballet of Canada.
PROGRAM
ALLEGRO BRILLANTE
Music Piano Concerto No 3 E flat major, op 75 by Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Choreography George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
Music The First Meridian from The Secret Agent & Façades by Philip Glass
Choreography Sol León & Paul Lightfoot
PAS DE DEUX LE CORSAIRE
Music Riccardo Drigo
Choreography after Marius Petipa & Samuil Andrianov
UNISONO
Music Adagio from Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No 2 D major Hob. VIIb:2 by Joseph Haydn and Air from Suite No 3 D major BWV 1068 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Choreography Hans van Manen
Students of the Ballettakademie der Wiener Staatsoper
UNGARISCHE TÄNZE
Music Hungarian Dances No 1, 2 & 4 WoO 1 Book 1 by Johannes Brahms
Choreography Martin Schläpfer
FLAMENCO
Dance & Choreography David Coria
LE CHANT DU COMPAGNON ERRANT
Music Songs of a Wayfarer by Gustav Mahler
Choreography Maurice Béjart
Soloists Friedemann Vogel (Stuttgarter Ballett) & Guillaume Côté (The National Ballet of Canada)
Baritone Andrè Schuen
GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE AUS PAQUITA
Music Ludwig Minkus & Edouard Deldevez
Choreography after Marius Petipa