CLASSICAL RUSSIAN BALLETS IN ITALIAN SCENE: THE PROBLEM OF AUTHENTICITY OF RECONSTRUCTIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the cooperation of the Petersburg choreographers and ballet soloists with Italian ballet companies (Rome and Naples) in the beginning of the 21st century. The initial staging of Raymonda of A. Glazunov — M. Petipa carried out according to ‘Harvard records’ Sergei Vikharev (2011). Vyacheslav Khomyakov proposed his edition of the old Corsaire and the resumption of Egyptian Nights of A. Arensky - M. Fokin (2008 and 2009).