Work
Shurale
Second version of the ballet; Leonid Yakobson’s 1950 production
Historical title: Ali-Batyr
About the production
Shurale is a ballet to music by Farid Yarullin, with a libretto by Ahmed Faizi and Leonid Yakobson based on Tatar folk tales. Yakobson’s choreography brings together classical dance, character dance and grotesque movement. His version opened at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad on 28 May 1950 as Ali-Batyr.
The ballet was first staged in Kazan on 12 March 1945. Yakobson’s version followed in Leningrad on 28 May 1950, and the Mariinsky revived it on 28 June 2009.
Credits
- Choreography
- Leonid Yakobson
- Music
- Farid Yarullin
- Libretto
- Ahmed FaiziLeonid Yakobson
- Premiere of this production
- Original ballet premiere
- Revival
- Theatre
- Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Mariinsky Theatre)
- Place
- Leningrad
Documents
1953 autobiography, pp. 2–3: his account of the work in Kazan and the 1950 production.
Read about the work
On Work in the Theatre. From the 1953 Autobiography
Text in Russian
An excerpt from the autobiography: theatre and teaching work, Shurale, wartime evacuation and productions of the early 1950s.
Read the excerpt