Yerevan in preparation of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida production

February 23, 2010 - 15:47 AMT

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Last year was rich for the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre after Alexander Spendiaryan in terms of creativity and repertoire, Spartacus ballet staged Russian choreographer Yuri Grigorovich being the main event.



“Spartacus became the brand for Armenia,” Kamo Hovhannisyan , director of the National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet after Spendiaryan told a news conference in Yerevan.



“In 2010 Alexander Harutyunyan’s Sayat-Nova and Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida by will also be presented to the audience,” he said.



“For Aida we have invited famous Italian stage director Mario Corradi. I hope this year will be also successful like the previous one,” Kamo Hovhannisyan concluded.



Currently, two ballets based on works of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi and Johann Sebastian Bach are under preparation.

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