Sergei Prokofiev

CINDERELLA

BALLET PREMIERE

25.11.2022 – 7 PM

A ballet performance for all ages, a contemporary ballet in three scenes.

Choreographer: Aleksandar Ilikj (Serbia)
Costume designer: Katerina Radosevikj Galikj (Croatia)
Scenographer: Filip Korunovski
Sound Design: Georg Draushnik (Croatia)
Light design: Milcho Aleksandrov
Assistant – choreographer: Sasha Evtimova and Mojca Majcen (Slovenia)
Ass–costume designer: Angela Bogeska
Repetitours: Sasha Evtimova and Biljana Pasharikovska

Performing:
Cinderella: Hristina Nakjevska, Biljana Basmadzieva Kovachevski, Simona Mitovska, Natasha Trendafilov – Gicev
Prince: Igor Velanoski, Balazs Locsei (Hungary)

PERFORMING SOLOISTS AND THE BALLET ENSEMBLE OF THE NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET

“Cinderella” short synopsis

…And they lived happily ever after, because love is in the air….but before that they should have met….
In a small but famous town, on the main square, where the “Villa Heart” monument is located, friends meet, boys fall in love with girls, the chimney sweep takes a break in his schedule, and a girl named Cinderella in her tender palms carries a suitcase full of dreams. Waiting for her father, who has sent her a letter, she looks forward to the meeting and going to the shared warm home, a home where no one loves her, but her dreams never leave her.
With the help of the wise Willies and a little magic, she’s ready for a ball she’s not invited to. At the ball is the favorite and most beautiful girl, with whom all the boys are in love, there is also the real one – the prince of her dreams.
The rule is that all good girls must be in their homes before midnight.
Intoxicated by dance, laughter, by the prince and his company, she forgets the time and exactly at midnight the bad dream begins.
In the Whirlwind of the Dance, midnight strikes, Cinderella loses her prince, her sanity, but also her one shoe.
The prince finds the shoe by chance, but he doesn’t know the girl’s name or where she lives.
He announces a search in the city for the girl who lost her shoe, with the promise that if he finds the girl, he will marry her and she will become a princess.
Whether the story had a happy ending, not even the Fairy Heart knew that, because all the girls lost one shoe each, believing in their wishes and dreams.
Everyone lived happily ever after, or even longer, according to this story.
Very, very happy, because Love is in the Air….