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La Bayadère

BALLET & DANCE

La Bayadère

SCHEDULE

  • Sat, 27 April 2024, 14:00
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  • Sun, 28 April 2024, 13:00
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  • Sun, 28 April 2024, 18:30
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  • Mon, 29 April 2024, 14:00
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    - Backstage Tour
    After the performance of Mon, 29 Apr 2024, 14:00

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  • Fri, 3 May 2024, 14:00
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    - NBJ Class on stage
    Fri, 3 May 2024, 10:45~12:00

    - [Only for Under 25s] Production Guide Tour
    After the performance of Wed, 3 May 2024, 14:00

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  • Sat, 4 May 2024, 13:00
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  • Sat, 4 May 2024, 18:30
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  • Sun, 5 May 2024, 14:00
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2023/2024 SEASON

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Corporate Sponsorship: Van Cleef & Arpels

27 Apr - 5 May, 2024 ( 8 Performances )

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Running time is approx. 2 hours 45mins including intervals
Booking Opens: Fri, 23 Feb 2024, 10:00am

DETAILS

La Bayadère premiered at the NNTT in November 2000, and was the first of the ballets to be produced with revised choreography by the artistic director of the time, Maki Asami. Its production had all the formal beauty of classical ballet, with spectacular, rapid stage transformations and lush stage art with deep oriental shades. These qualities gave the production an originality not seen in the original version, and made it a great success. This work offers not only classical ballet's unique beauty, such as an astounding dream scene with the Shades slowly dancing down a three-tier, winding slope, but also captivating drama among the characters. The story features complex and dramatic human relationships between Nikiya, the temple dancer with a subtle inner strength, her lover Solor, who serves the Rajah, Gamzatti, the king's daughter who loves Solor, and the High Brahmin, who also loves Nikiya. At the end of the story, the temple collapses in a thunderous roar, and Nikiya and Solor emerge from the ruins and ascend to the heavens in a scene of breath-taking beauty.

NEWS & FEATURES

27TH March, 2024
Special Events for "La Bayadère" (27 Apr - 5 May) will be held!
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15TH December, 2023
Main cast announced for Ballet "La Bayadère"
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SYNOPSIS

A bayadère (temple dancer) to an Indian temple, Nikiya is an innocent and beautiful girl. She is in love with Solor, a young captain serving the Rajah (king). The High Brahmin (high priest), who is also in love with Nikiya, is seeking a chance to make her his own possession. Meanwhile, the Rajah's daughter Gamzatti, who has loved Solor ever since she saw him for the first time, wishes to marry Solor to whom her father has decided to marry her.

Introduced to Gamzatti at the Rajah's palace, Solor is fascinated by her beauty as well and consents to marrying her because, given his position as the Rajah's soldier, he cannot disobey the order.

When Nikiya learns that Solor is to marry Gamzatti, Nikiya is bitten by a poisonous snake sent by Gamzatti and the Rajah and chooses to die and pushes away the High Brahmin, who offers a cure for the poison. Solor, who reproaches himself in repentance and despair, meets Nikiya again in a hallucination, but awakened from the dream, he goes to the temple in search of Nikiya, only to find that Gamzatti, the Rajah and the High Brahmin are waiting for him as the wedding ceremony starts···

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CREATIVE TEAM & CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Choreography by: Marius PETIPA
Production by: MAKI Asami
Music by: Léon MINKUS
Music Arranged and Orchestrated by: John LANCHBERY
Production Designer: Alistair LIVINGSTONE
Co-Lighting Designer: ISONO Mutsumi

CAST

27 April 14:00
Nikiya: ONO Ayako
Solor: FUKUOKA Yudai
Gamzatti: NAOTSUKA Miho

28 April 13:00
Nikiya: HIROKAWA Mikuri
Solor: IZAWA Shun
Gamzatti: NAOTSUKA Miho

28 April 18:30
Nikiya: YONEZAWA Yui
Solor: WATANABE Takafumi
Gamzatti: KIMURA Yuri

29 April 14:00
Nikiya: SHIBAYAMA Saho
Solor: HAYAMI Shogo
Gamzatti: KIMURA Yuri

3 May 14:00
Nikiya: HIROKAWA Mikuri
Solor: IZAWA Shun
Gamzatti: NAOTSUKA Miho

4 May 13:00
Nikiya: YONEZAWA Yui
Solor: WATANABE Takafumi
Gamzatti: KIMURA Yuri

4 May 18:30
Nikiya: ONO Ayako
Solor: FUKUOKA Yudai
Gamzatti: NAOTSUKA Miho

5 May 14:00
Nikiya: SHIBAYAMA Saho
Solor: HAYAMI Shogo
Gamzatti: KIMURA Yuri


Conductor: Alexei BAKLAN
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

  • CREATIVE TEAM
  • CAST
  • MAKI Asami
    Production by
    MAKI Asami
    John LANCHBERY
    Music Arranged and Orchestrated by
    John LANCHBERY
    Alistair LIVINGSTONE
    Production Designer
    Alistair LIVINGSTONE
    ISONO Mutsumi
    Co-Lighting Designer
    ISONO Mutsumi
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    Nikiya

    ONO Ayako

    27, 4

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    Solor

    FUKUOKA Yudai

    27, 4

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    Gamzatti

    NAOTSUKA Miho

    27, 4

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    Nikiya

    HIROKAWA Mikuri

    28m, 3

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    Solor

    IZAWA Shun

    28m, 3

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    Gamzatti

    NAOTSUKA Miho

    28m, 3

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    Nikiya

    YONEAZWA Yui

    28s, 4

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    Solor

    WATANABE Takafumi

    28s, 4

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    Gamzatti

    KIMURA Yuri

    28s, 4

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    Nikiya

    SHIBAYAMA Saho

    29, 5

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    Solor

    HAYAMI Shogo

    29, 5

    kimura-yuri

    Gamzatti

    KIMURA Yuri

    29, 5

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    Conductor

    Alexei BAKLAN

TICKETS

Booking Opens: Fri, 23 Feb 2024, 10:00am

Booking Z seats (Day tickets) 1,650 yen

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