Season 2019/2020
Premiere
DON QUIXOTE
Nearest dates: Fri 22 November 2019Sat 23 November 2019Tue 10 December 2019
During the 2019/2020 season we mark 150 years since the first première of the ballet Don Quixote. Marius Petipa first presented the oeuvre based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes and to the music by Ludwig Minkus was first presented in 1869 in Moscow at the Imperial Theatre. Read more
Repertory
BEATLES GO BAROQUE
Nearest dates: Tue 31 December 2019 Tue 31 December 2019 Wed 19 February 2020
Beatles Go Baroque is a Slovak project by the composer Peter Breiner and five choreographers. The impulse for the production came from the music by Mr Breiner, one of the world’s most recorded musicians. Read more
LA ESMERALDA
Nearest dates: Fri 25 October 2019Sat 26 October 2019
La Esmeralda, ballet to the music by Cesare Pugni, inspired by the Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, opened in world premiere in London in 1844. It wasn’t, however, until the Marius Petipa version of 1886 that earned the ballet global fame. Read more
FRAGILE & SND BALLET
Nearest dates: Fri 24 January 2020 Wed 5 February 2020 Sat 14 March 2020
Fragile is Slovak vocal ensemble that brings together popular figures from the world of television, theatre and film They perform a capella, hence without musical instruments, popular works by international composers Their repertoire also includes compositions by such giants as Bach or Chopin. Read more
GISELLE
Nearest dates: Fri 17 January 2020 Sat 8 February 2020 Tue 10 March 2020
Adam don’s ballet Giselle is part of historical legacy of culminating Romanticism. At the same time, it is one of the most frequently staged oeuvres in ballet companies worldwide. From its first première in Paris in 1841, the ballet continues to attract audiences across the globe.Read more
Swan Lake
Nearest dates: Sat 11. Janaury 2020Tue 14. January 2020Fri 6. March 2020
The phenomenal oeuvre by Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov is no doubt the most popular title in any ballet repertoire. The romantic story of the prince Siegfried and the beautiful princess Odette cursed into a swan reis the ground stone of classical Russian ballet school. Read more
Season 2018/2019
Premiere
Repertory
BRODSKY / BARYSHNIKOV
Nearest dates: Wed 20 March, 2019Thu 21 March, 2019Solo production BRODSKY / BARYSHNIKOV is an emotional journey through the world of poetry of the Russian poet and Nobel Prize Laureate Iosif Brodsky.Read More
Swan Lake
Nearest dates: Sat 11. Janaury 2020Tue 14. January 2020Fri 6. March 2020Perhaps no other composer expressed suffering and pain in his music works as authentically as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Some musicologists attribute the lyricism of Tchaikovsky music to his immense sensitivity accompanied by a frequent periods of depression Read more
THE SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN RACERS
Nearest dates: The Snow White and Seven Racers is an original dance musical for children in two acts. Boris Filan’s lyrics are sung by Paľo Habera, Darina Rolincová, Miroslav Noga, Štefan Skrúcaný, and others. Read more
NIJINSKY: THE GOD OF DANCE
Nearest dates: A tormented schizophrenic, an artist attracted to both men and women, anda ballet revolutionary. The phenomenal Russian dancer and choreographer Vaclav Nijinsky was all this and much more. His life story did not leave the Slovak National Theatre without interest. The result is a suggestive ballet performance – Nijinsky: The God of Dance. Read more
ROMEO AND JULIET – JUST LIKE YESTERDAY…
Nearest dates: Is it possible for love to exist in times of war and violence? What’s the reason for lack of humanity and tolerance? It’s not our personal ego, which makes us blind, deaf and unemotional. Read more…
SLOVAK DANCES (THE LIVES OF LIGHTS)
Nearest dates: This ballet stage performance aspires to show you that Slovak Folk songs are no exception when it comes to passionate elements. Peter Breiner, Slovak composer and musician living in New York, arranged folk songs into a modern form. Read more
DAPHNIS AND CHLOÉ
Nearest dates: The story of childhood, adolescence and love of Daphnis and Chloé, inspired by one of the prettiest preserved ancient myths is brought by the author to the present era. Read more
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