LA GIARA

a ballet to music by Alfredo Casella – first performance in Bulgaria

Choreography Flavio Bennati
Assiatant Choreographer Silviya Tomova
Artist of set and costumes Salvatore Russo

Conductor Carlo Donadio
Don Lolo – Alxander Zhelev
Dzi Dima – Petya Vaneva
Nela – Yu Chan Iizuka
Nela’s fiance – Stoyan Fartunov
7 friends – Aneliya Dimitrova, Romina Slavova, Kremena Kostova, Maria Lakka, Yoana Vlaguli, Semela Shkenderasi, Roshel Rankin
Milko Mihailov – Tenor

The author of the music Alfredo Casella uses lots of Sicilian folklore musical elements – he even includes a tenor solo in the Sicilian dialect. The edifying comic parable by Pirandello is presented in a dance version among sparkling and flowing with hues colors – in the set, in the costumes, in the choreography.  The spectators encounter rich means of expression: dance theater, mixed dance techniques, a pantomime in a saturated with comic situations spectacle. Behind the entertaining and seemingly naïve story there lurks the eternal wise message of the Sicilian Luigi Pirandello: „One needs to think before doing anything…“

Duration: 30 minutes
Premiere: 28 November 2017 – Festival of the Opera and Ballet Arts