LA BOUTIQUE FANTASTIQUE
a ballet to music by Gioachino Rossini/Ottorino Respighi
Choreography Alba Buonandi
Assistant Choreographer Silviya Tomova
Scenography and Costumes Salvatore Russo
Ballet of the Stara Zagora State Opera
Children’s Studio for Opera and Ballet “Margaritki” of the Stara Zagora State Opera
The owner of the boutique /magician/ – Alexander Zhelev
Seller-consultant – Tomoki Ishigo
A couple dolls, dancers of Kan-kan – Romina Slavova, Fiordi Llocha
Doll-Spanish woman – Aneliya Dimitrova
Dandy – Francesco Borriello
Pulchinela – Petya Vaneva
Tarantella – Mariela Colaro
4 dolls – Khloe Alexander, Ivelina Dimitrova, Carmen Demirtash, Petya Vaneva
Mazurka: Queen of hearts – Juliana Koeva
Queen of diamond – Radost Mladenova-Arabadzhieva
The king of clubs – Ivelin Hristakiev
Queen of spades – Stefan Donchev
Joker – Haruka Suga
Seller of watermelon – Dragomir Hristov
Poodle – Klohe Alexander, Richo Hirano
Tyrolese dolls – Semela Shkenderasi, Lora Georgieva
Governess – Bilyana Cholakova
Cossacks – Stanko Tanev, Ivaylo Yanev, Salvatore Laudani
Dolls of Kan-Kan – Rio Suzuki, Penka Dimitrova, Nanako Imai, Karmen Demirtash
Thief – Ivan Kyuchukov
Carrier – Encho Neykov, Alexander Ivanov
Russian family – Ivona Ivanova, Kamelia Stoycheva, Hristo Ivanov, Mehmet Burhaniye
Children –Children’s Studio for Opera and Ballet “Margaritki”
American family – Neli Necheva, Polina Ruseva, Nikola Marulev, Ivan Kolev
English woman and english lady – Svetozara Koynarska, Margarita Tasheva
Artist Salvatore Russo and prima ballerina and choreographer Alba Buonandi have worked together before – the biographies of the renowned artists contain 10 joint original ballet productions. About La Boutique fantasque they unanimously decided, following the original libretto by Massine and Respighi, to enrich the story and develop it after its end. The libretto by Massine is focused on the love story between two Dolls, dancing can-can in the toyshop. Salvatore Russo and Alba Buonandi enhance the role of the Magician who turns the Dolls into living people – gives them hearts, helps the separated Dolls to gather again and the story has its happy end. In their spectacle there appears Pulcinella, the Spanish Doll, the nanny, added before in Rossini’s music too. Russo and Buonandi move the action from the mid-19th century in Paris of 1919, when the premiere of the work occurred. The costumes bear the characteristics of the fashion of those years in the clothes of the people who appear in the shop to buy Dolls. And among the Dolls, the typical personages of the silent films are discerned with the emblematic figure of the character of Charlie Chaplin with the bowler hat and cane.
Duration: 1 hour without an interval
Premiere: 28 February 2018
