The Bolshoi Ballet Company will present the famous ballet Swan Lake to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s music for the first time in Thailand.
The TASS news agency reported, citing Russian Ambassador to Thailand Yevgeny Tomikhin, that in September 2024, dancers of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia will perform the classic ballet ‘Swan Lake’ for the first time in Thailand.
The Bolshoi Ballet Company will present the famous ballet to Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s music on the stage of the Thai capital’s Cultural Centre as part of the Bangkok International Music and Dance Festival programme.
‘The 26th Bangkok International Music and Dance Festival will occur in September-October. It will be opened by the ballet Swan Lake, performed by Bolshoi Theatre artists, who will perform here for the first time. ‘The audience will be able to see Swan Lake in Bangkok on 13,14 and 15 September,’ the ambassador said.
‘Preparations for the tour are now in full swing. The organisers see them as a major event. We hope that the public will welcome our artists as warmly as always. There will probably be a full house, and tickets will be sold out quickly. I want to emphasise that the organisers of the festival stick to their tradition of inviting Russian groups to represent opera, ballet, and modern choreography every year,’ said the head of the diplomatic mission.
Tomikhin noted that as part of the festival in October in Bangkok, will also ‘come to Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre with three productions – “Spartacus”, “Don Quixote” and’ Carmen Suite. Divertissement.’ The ballet performances will be presented to the local public on 9, 11 and 12 October.
The Russian diplomat recalled that the Bolshoi Theatre tour takes place during the cross-year of cultural exchanges and tourism between Russia and Thailand, which was inaugurated in Bangkok on 29 April with a concert of the Pyatnitsky State Academic Russian Folk Choir.
Before the concert, the Cultural Centre of Thailand held a ceremony to donate Thai folk musical instruments to the Russian National Museum of Music, as well as the opening of the exhibition ‘King of Siam. High Visit to Peterhof is dedicated to King Rama V Chulalongkorn’s visit to Russia 1897. During this visit, a treaty was signed to establish diplomatic relations between Siam, as Thailand was called at the time, and Russia.
Earlier, Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova, who was visiting Bangkok, also reported on the Bolshoi Theatre’s preparations for its autumn tour in Thailand.
‘Another of the significant upcoming events is that the Bolshoi Theatre is preparing for a tour to Thailand. With our partners, the Ministry of Culture, we are now determining the repertoire.’
‘For now, it’s still a bit of a mystery. There are a few more negotiations to come. And, of course, first of all, Maestro Valery Gergiev’s decision as to what will be the first to be presented in Bangkok from the repertoire that the Bolshoi Theatre has at its disposal,’ Olga Lyubimova told a TASS correspondent.
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