November 9, 2012
The the Days of Russian-Mongolian Friendship and Cooperation was realized by RUS ART in November 2012, and presented a Gala Concert “Stars of Russian Ballet” at the State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia in Ulan Bator. The concert was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Agreement on Friendship between Russia and Mongolia, in accordance with the Program of International Cultural Cooperation between the two countries.
The program of the concert brought together by the principal and leading artists of the most important musical theaters of Russia – the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater and the Novosibirsk Theater of Opera and Ballet, and served to acquaint a Mongolian audience with the finest examples from a diverse group of schools of Russian choreographic art, including examples of contemporary Russian choreography.
Taking part in the program were soloists of the Mariinsky Theater and Honored Artists of Russia, Andrei BALATOV and Ilya KUZNETSOV, Honored Artist of Russia Sofya GUMEROVA, soloists of the Novosibirsk Theater of Opera and Ballet Vera SABANTSEVA and Roman POLKOVNIKOV, soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia and People’s Artists of Russia Maria ALLASH and Dmitry GUDANOV, soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia and Honored Artists of Russia Marianna RYZHKINA and Yekaterina SHIPULINA, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia and Honored Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Andrei MERKURYEV, artists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia Karim ABDULLIN, Allina GUSAKOVA and Ivan RYUMIN, soloists of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater Kristina SHAPRAN and Semyon VELICHKO and soloist of the theater “Russian Ballet” (under the direction of Vyacheslav Gordeyev) and laureate of international competitions Tatyana BOLOTOVA.
