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Ballet Yaroslavna

The first dramatic dance troupe "Yaroslavna", performing choreography and symphony, took place in 1974. The performance took place at the Leningrad Academic Maly Theater.
The performance was conceived as a mixture of ballet with choral performance and pantomime. The imagery of “Yaroslavna” presented itself in a new guise in the art of modern ballet. Historical moment of the performance

This work was conceived by the Leningrad ballet dance specialist O.M. Vinogradov. It was not just a national performance, but the authenticity and spirit of it were depicted. The dance scheme and its graphics were supposed to change the entire structure of a simple ballet. For this, Vinogradov brought the composer B. Tishchenko, who had previously been a follower of D. Shostakovich. Tishchenko was interested in such a proposal and soon he became the author of this musical work. His path to fame was not easy and his music reached listeners for years. His most famous work was “Yaroslavna”. Boris himself introduced his part and also introduced choral performance, while presenting his train of thought in writing. An ordinary theatrical performance should take place with precise entry into the episode in a charismatic manner. Yaroslavna did not come here like that. Tishchenko was immediately against it; he independently figured out the definition of each episode. Vinogradov unquestioningly submitted to Boris's work. The work was to eliminate variations such as pas de deux and similar movements around the stage.

Yu. Lyubimov, the director of amateur performances at the Taganka Theater, was invited to design the set.

The male choral performance conveys the unique energy of a military adventure, and what a wonderful sound the orchestral tunes produce. In the first act, a pipe is heard, its sound reminiscent of folk singing. In the second act, the soporific moans of the violin are heard. Then some rustling noises are made, conveying the moments of the onset of the battle. In the third act, many moments of the princess’s crying, the plowman’s groans, and the prayers being read are conveyed.

Academician D.S. Likhachev acted as a consultant.

The resulting performance “Yaroslavna” was simply original and was soon allowed to perform on tour abroad.

Report No. 2

The ballet was first staged at the Leningrad Academic Opera Theater in 1974. The choreographer O. M. Vinogradov acted as the choreographer; he also composed the libretto for the entire ballet and designed the costumes. According to his idea, the performance was to be permeated with the Russian spirit from beginning to end, to embody the traditions of the Russian people, and to reflect truly Russian values. The production consisted of three acts and was radically different from traditional academic Russian ballet. The performance combined choreography, pantomime and choral singing, which at that time was perceived as an innovation in this art form.

The composer was Boris Tishchenko, a student of the famous Dmitry Shostakovich. He independently set the duration of each musical passage and did not follow traditional ballet guidelines.

The performance is based on the famous work “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.” The set design was entrusted to the famous director and artistic director Yuri Lyubimov, whose special role was noted by B. Tishchenko. It is worth noting that the best specialist in this chronicle, D.S., participated in writing the script. Likhachev.

Contrary to the fears of the creators, the play was well received by the audience and was even allowed to go on tour, where it was successfully shown at the Avignon Festival in France. Critics paid special attention not only to the Russian atmosphere that the authors were so keen to create, but also to the historical authenticity of the performance.

Characters:

Princess Novgorod-Severskaya (Efrosinia Yaroslavna);
Prince Novgorod-Seversky (Igor);
Polovtsian Khan Konchak;
Son of Prince Igor Vladimir;
Prince of Kyiv Svyatoslav the Great;
Other characters are the Mourners, Princes, Russian and Polovtsian warriors.

Plot:

Act 1: exposition, setting up storylines. Civil strife. In Rus', a threat from outside, the intention of the princes to make a campaign, intrigues in their ranks. The chorus in the song “Moaning of the Russian Land” talks about the disagreements of the princes: “Brother said to brother: “This is mine, and that is mine.” Tormented by civil strife, its weakness provokes Polovtsian raids. "Strife" shows the viewer the horror of these attacks, the death and captivity of civilians. The powerful scene “Eclipse” at the end of the first act puts pressure on the audience and shows the hopelessness of the current situation. The sound of all the instruments of the orchestra stops abruptly, and there is a general pause.
Act 2: the first battle of Igor’s army with the Polovtsians, where the latter are defeated. In the evening, the victors feast and have fun, not knowing that at this time they are surrounded by newly arrived Cuman forces.
Act 3: defeat and capture of Prince Igor. His wife Yaroslavna mourns the defeat of his army. The prince escapes, the action ends with his call for revenge on the Polovtsians.

The ballet “Yaroslavna” is still an example of Russian art and resonates in the hearts of audiences and critics.

7th grade summary

Lesson Ballet Yaroslavna B. I. Tishchenko

Lesson topic: Ballet “Yaroslavna” by B.I. Tishchenko (7th grade)

Target:

Introduce children to the ballet “Yaroslavna”, the work of composer B.I. Tishchenko, compare and analyze the difference between the classical structure of the ballet and the modern one. Listen to excerpts from the ballet.

Tasks:

- develop skills in musical perception of works;

- cultivate a sense of beauty through works of art.

- consolidate the concept of ballet, the program of the performance.

- repeat the plot of the literary work “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”

During the classes:

Lesson topic message (Slide 1)

U: Today we will get acquainted with the ballet “Yaroslavna” and composer Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko. Let us trace the difference between modern ballet and classical ballet.

T: What is ballet?

Children: - a musical and dramatic work in which the action is conveyed through dance and pantomime. In the classical ballet program we can see pas de deux - a dance for two, pas detrois - a dance for three.

T: Write down in your notebook the features of the classical structure of ballet. (Slide two)

Features of modern ballet. (slide 3)

U: Today in class we will get acquainted with this ballet “Yaroslavna”. The production of this ballet is based on the work “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”

W: Great works of art born in ancient times are still contemporary today. Their creators penetrated so deeply into the mysteries of the world and human relationships that we can still find in them the answers that concern us today. One of such works is “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” about which the famous literary critic Likhachev wrote: Each era finds in it its own and new.

Let's remember what this work is about?

Children: Prince Igor with his army is going to go to Konchak against the Polovtsians, his wife Yaroslavna dissuades him, but the prince and his son Vladimir leave. They lose the battle, the prince and his son are captured. At this time Yaroslavna’s Brother …………

Composer Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko wrote the music for the ballet “Yaroslavna”. (Slide 4)

This composer was born in Leningrad 23.3.1939 - 10 December 2010,

In his work, he illuminated the images of ancient Russian history and Russian folklore in a new way. And we will see this today.

Everything in this ballet is new.

In contrast to the interpretation of the plot in A. Borodin’s opera “Prince Igor”, the composer of the 20th century. the tragedy of the defeat of Igor’s army is emphasized.

This is what he said about his brainchild (slide 5)

My most important work at the Leningrad Maly Theater was the ballet “Yaroslavna,” which occupies a special place in my life. It became the culmination of my creativity. Today, almost thirty years after its premiere, knowing everything that has happened in world ballet over the years, in terms of originality I cannot stage a single performance next to “Yaroslavna”! (I don't think this is inflated self-esteem.)

How was this ballet created?

He did not like the embodiment of the theme of Prince Igor in Borodin’s opera, but the plot could not leave my head and worried me constantly.

Just at this very time, the ballet dancer of the Kirov Theater Yuri Khokhlov - a very nice, modest person - brought him his libretto for the ballet “Prince Igor” in three acts. Unfortunately, Khokhlov’s ballet libretto retold the opera’s - and Prince Igor also remained its hero: it was precisely this interpretation that caused protest in me. Wow hero! He deceived everyone, destroyed the army, showed his inability to resist the Tatars and plunged his homeland into a two-hundred-year Tatar-Mongol yoke! Well, I couldn’t accept this!

In most ancient chronicles, the events of that time and the adventure of Prince Igor were described as tragically as in the Lay. Little by little, the image of the author-chronicler of the Lay, a participant in historical events, arose in my imagination.

The heroine of our ballet was Yaroslavna. The image of a Russian woman (mother, sister, wife, lover) - the collective symbol of the Motherland - was determined as the basis of the entire structure of the performance, and everything else arose as if through her thoughts and feelings.

Ballet “Yaroslavna”: (synopsis) Slide 6.7.8.

1. All my Russians danced barefoot, all my enemies (the female corps de ballet) were on pointe shoes, in men's costumes, with their faces covered: hands in black gloves, pointe shoes as black as hooves, the body in dark brown tights. The suit itself - both pants and shirt - are made of container fabric (burlap of a coarse texture - very cheap).

2. There are no usual pas de deux and love scenes at all.

3. A combination of singing and dancing. In act 1 the male choir “Moan of the Russian Earth” sounds

4. It was not the artists who were invited, but the archers who portrayed the Polovtsians; they

they danced around the wriggling Igor and planted natural arrows into the floor of the stage. Igor plastically accentuated the hit of each such arrow on the floor, expressing bodily pain, and at the end he fell motionless inside the fatal circle of arrows...

5. The scenery is the texts of ancient chronicles and chronicles.

When the curtain opened, in complete darkness the ancient texts of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” were slowly illuminated on the stage backdrop and wings. The Russian corps de ballet stood in light clothes the color of pages: women in identical long shirts of slightly different tones, with their hair tied up in a bun, tied with a thin ribbon; men - in shirts and trousers of the same tone, with hair tied back with a leather strap across the forehead. Ancient letters appeared on the costumes.

Grouped in accordance with church canons, they resembled a fresco depicting Rus', as if embodying part of this text - phrases, words, letters. All the characters seemed to leave the text and return to it. Only the Polovtsians appeared from behind the scenes.

U: Ballet “Yaroslavna” - ballet in 2 acts, (slide 8.9.10.11)

The ballet is based on a genuine Russian event. history of the 12th century: the campaign of Novgorod-Seversky Prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the Polovtsy that ended in defeat. The most important episodes are “Gathering for the Campaign”, “Russian Wives”, “Campaign”, “For the Environment”, “Second Battle”, “Captivity”, “Yaroslavna’s Lament”, “Escape”, “Call for Unity”.

The original musical language of the ballet includes the harsh chants heard by the male choir, the energetic offensive rhythms of a military campaign, the mournful “howls” of the orchestra (“Steppe of Death”), and the melancholy tunes of the wind instruments, reminiscent of the sound of pities.

U: Now we will listen to the Introduction to the ballet, this is how Act 1 opens. The voice of a shepherd's pipe sounds softly, the melody of which resembles a drawn-out Russian folk song.

Hearing

Introduction

How the melody develops, what picture it paints. Is it possible to compare an instrumental melody with the sound of a human voice?

Children's answers:

U: After the introduction, the male choir “Moan of the Russian Land” sounds

This is an epic narrative, behind which stands the image of an ancient chronicler, it is the choir that comments on what is happening on stage, it is the choir that emphasizes the emotional state of the characters.

Hearing

What images of the ballet are revealed by the music of the introduction and chorus “Moan of the Russian Earth”

Children's answers:

U: Oh, the Russian land groans, remembering the first times and the first princes!.. For brother said to brother: “This is mine, and that is mine.” And the princes began to talk about the small “this is great” and forge sedition against themselves. And the filthy from all sides came with victories to the Russian land. Longing spread across the Russian land; abundant sadness flowed in the middle of the Russian land.

Key fragments of the text of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” (in MALEGOT’s performance the chronicle texts were elements of scenography) are performed by the choir, now telling about long-standing events, now commenting on what is happening, now reborn into acting people and the voices of nature.

In “The Moan of the Russian Land,” the male choir tells about the feuds of the Russian princes: “Brother said to brother: “This is mine, and that is mine.” The composer unfolds before the listeners a picture of the troubled life of Rus'. The land, torn apart by civil strife, falls victim to raids by nomadic tribes. In “Strife” we hear the screams of women driven into Polovtsian slavery, a plowman wheezes before his death (“Killed”). The intonations of Russian crying are returning.

U: It is with these works that the ballet “Yaroslavna” begins

Conclusion: (Slide 12,13,14)

Summary:

Name the features of a modern ballet performance.
Who wrote the ballet "Yaroslavna"
Why did the author name his ballet this way?
How action 1 opens.

Homework:

What the author wanted to say with the words at the end of the opera:

Step into the golden stirrups, gentlemen, for the insult of this time, for the Russian land! Write down your thoughts in your notebook.

Yaroslavna, ballet in three acts based on “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”, op. 58, (1974)

1. Act I (36:21)

Introduction, Groan of the Russian land, Infighting, Murdered, Crying for the murdered, Yaroslavna, Svyatoslav, Igor's squad, Preparations for the campaign, Glory to Igor, Yaroslavna with Igor, Beginning of the campaign, Eclipse

2. Act II (23:54)

Introduction, Continuation of the campaign, Steppe, First battle with the Polovtsians, Games with Polovtsian girls, The night before the second battle, Night premonitions, Polovtsian Vezha, Idol

3. Act III (29:57)

Introduction, Cries, Arrows, Second Battle with the Polovtsy, Steppe of Death, Yaroslavna's Lament, Igor at the Polovtsy, Igor's Escape, Plowman Boy, Return, Summoning, Prayer

History of the ballet production

The history of the creation of the ballet “Yaroslavna” dates back to the 70s of the 20th century, when the famous Soviet choreographer Oleg Mikhailovich Vinogradov, who lived and worked in Leningrad, conceived the idea of staging a truly Russian dance, literally imbued with the Slavic spirit. Having thought for a long time about what storyline could become the basis of the performance, the choreographer came to the conclusion that the best option is the great ancient Russian work “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” supposedly written at the end of the 12th century and covering the military events of those years.

The main plot of the scripture revolved around the unsuccessful campaign that the Russian princes tried to carry out against the Polovtsians, being defeated in the end. However, the production of the theme performed by Vinogradov was significantly different from the famous opera “Prince Igor” by Alexander Borodin, since the author viewed the events and characters of those years from a completely different position, trying to demonstrate these images to the viewer from an unusual angle.

The following interesting facts about the ballet “Yaroslavna” are also known today:

The author decided to make Efrosinya Yaroslavna, known as the wife of Novgorod-Seversk Prince Igor, and also as the daughter of the Galician Prince Yaroslav, the main character of the play, and in the future all events and actions are presented as a reflection of her feelings and experiences. A collector of lands, a woman, a wife, a mother - this is exactly how, according to Vinogradov, it is necessary to form the image of that same Russian spirit with all its greatness, tragedy, sacrifice and authenticity.
The author of the music for the play was Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko, a famous Soviet and later Russian composer and people's artist, who studied art with the legendary Dmitry Shostakovich. It was he who proposed to accompany the musical series with an original text from an ancient legend, without imagining the composition without it. In addition, the author added choral performance and complex vocal scenes, moving as far as possible from ballet productions in their classical sense and immediately refusing to maintain precise timing according to the well-known Petipa-Tchaikovsky principle. Vinogradov later recalled that he completely submitted to Tishchenko’s will and never regretted it, sincerely admiring every idea he used to write brilliant melodies.
The set designer of the ballet was Yuri Lyubimov, the legendary director of the Taganka Theater, opera director, actor and teacher, to whom the ballet owes its informality and novelty, becoming a kind of performance of that time. Vinogradov himself believed that thanks to the talented artistic director, the performance literally came to life from the moment of its first appearance in the hall.
In order to depict the events of the great offensive with maximum historical accuracy, Vinogradov turned for help to Academician Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev, who was quite rightly considered one of the best specialists who studied “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” in the USSR.
The performance earned universal recognition, receiving numerous positive reviews from both theater critics and audiences. Dmitry Shostakovich, whose student was Boris Tishchenko, also contributed to the preparation of positive reviews. He later admitted that he watched the ballet three times, each time being inspired not only by the choreography, but also by its talented musical accompaniment, considering it very Russian in spirit.

Of course, the ballet “Yaroslavna” by Tishchenko and Vinogradov, the latter of whom became the author of the libretto and costumes for the production, made an invaluable contribution to the development of modern classical dance, in fact becoming the personification of a grandiose choreosymphony, covering in detail historical facts from the life of Ancient Rus'.

The resounding success of the production was the reason that it was allowed to be taken on tour abroad, where in 1976 a high-profile premiere took place in Avignon, France.

Ballet “Yaroslavna”, V.I. Tishchenko presentation for a music lesson (grade 7) on the topic

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