9th Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala

The World of Ballet Remembers a Hungarian Legend

classical Classical ballet 12

Details

First performance date: From
Last performance date: To

Location
Hungarian State Opera
Running time , with interval.
  • Act I:
  • Interval:
  • Act II:

In Brief

2014 saw the sudden passing of the international ballet artist and ballet director Iván Nagy. After his retirement, he had returned to serve his country by working as head artistic consultant for the Hungarian State Opera. He used his wide-ranging knowledge of the profession to help the work of the Hungarian National Ballet; his departure left a gaping hole in the members of the corps de ballet. Since then, we have organised a ballet night in his honour every year, where soloists from the most important corps de ballet from all across the world – Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Bolshoi, Páris Opera, Het Nationale Ballet – and the performers of the OPERA’s corps de ballet pay tribute to Iván Nagy’s greatness in the profession and as a person. On the same day, we will award an artist of the Hungarian National Ballet with the Solymosi Award, which is given to the best dancer from the December run of The Nutcracker or an employee playing an important role behind the scenes.

Programme

Part One

Marius Petipa – Eszter Pőcze / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Little Swan Lake – Hungarian dance

Uwe Scholz / Sergey Rachnmaninov: Sonata – pas de deux

Tamás Solymosi / Cesare Pugni: Taras Bulba – gopak

Marius Petipa – Stanislav Beliaevskii – Anastasia Dunets / Alexander Glazunov: Raymonda – grand pas classique hongrois

Part Two

Eszter Pőcze / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Little Sleeping Beauty – waltz

Marius Petipa / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty – pas de deux

László Seregi / Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus – grand pas de deux

Agrippina Vaganova / Cesare Pugni: Diana and Actæon

Vasily Vainonen / Boris Asafyev: Flames of Paris – pas de deux