La Bayadère is a ballet originally staged in four acts by the French choreographer Marius Petipa with music by Ludwig Minkus and libretto by Sergei Khudekov and which was performed for the first time at the Bolshoi Theater in St. Petersburg on 4 February 1877. The current edition of La Bayadère debuted at the New National Theater in Tokyo 24 years ago and was the first of the ballets produced with the new choreography by Maki Asami. A production that has enjoyed enormous success with the public and critics and which combines the formal beauty of classical ballet with rapid and spectacular scenic transformations within a scenography that enlivens the lush oriental setting. The plot is always the love story between Nikiya, an Indian temple dancer and her beloved Solor, a young soldier in the Rajah's service. The two will have to fight against the desire of the High Brahmin - who wants to take possession of the young and attractive woman - in order to make their love triumph.
.jpg/jcr%3Acontent)
.jpg/jcr%3Acontent)
