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234th Season

Main Stage

25 February
19:30
2022 | Friday
Stars of the Stars
Evening of one act ballets: "Carmen Suite", "Le Jeune Homme et la Mort"
Ballet
Artists Credits
Music by Georges Bizet
Choreography by Roland Petit (revisions)
Tatiana Noginova, Costume Designer
Vladimir Lukasevich, Lighting Designer


Carmen Suite
World premiere: 20 April 1967, Bolsoi Theatre, Moscow
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 19 April 2010
Running time: 45 minutes

Le Jeune Homme et la Mort
is one of the earliest and most famous works by Roland Petit. The ballet was staged in post-war Paris in 1946 for the recently established company Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees. The ballet by Roland Petit which we know today is considered based on mime drama by Jean Cocteau. In actual fact, both the theme of relationships between an artist and death and the very image of a girl as death and lovers as death were key themes for Cocteau; he had his own accounts to settle with women and he himself was an artist.
A studio. The artist is unable to relax as he waits in torment. A woman appears: mysterious, sharp and heartless – the typical crafty Parisian woman – and during her brief visit she prompts the Youth to commit suicide. Moreover, she is, in fact, Death itself, its unique and original personification.


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