TEATER VANEMUINE ESITLEB

Ash White

Wed 09.04.2025 at 19:00
 (Vanemuise tänav 6, Tartu)

Ash White
/Tuhkvalge/

A Ballet on the music of Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst

Director and choreographer
Jevgeni Grib
Musical director and conductor
Risto Joost
Conductor
Aleksandr Brazhnyk
Dramaturge and librettist
Siret Campbell
Set designer
Kristjan Suits
Costume designer
Liisi Eesmaa
Lighting designer
Priidu Adlas (Estonian Drama Theatre)
Director’s assistant
Marta Navasardyan (Estonian National Opera)

Cast
Raminta Rudžionytė-Jordan, Caroline Maquignon, Gus Upchurch, Bradley Howell, Maria Engel, Georgia Toni Hyrkäs, Alexander Germain Drew, William Halton, Alain Divoux, Gerardo Avelar, Sayaka Nagahiro, Selma Strandberg, Benjamin Newman
Vocal soloists
Maria Listra (guest) or Pauline Vähi (guest) or Grete Oolberg
Vanemuine Ballet Company and Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra

The audience of the Vanemuine Theatre knows Jevgeni Grib for his mythology-inspired short ballet Metamorphoses. In Ash White, Grib once again delves into deep and enthralling topics such as life, death and yearning for the unattainable. This production in cooperation with dramaturge and librettist Siret Campbell is inspired by the short story The Sandman (Der Sandmann) written by E. T. A. Hoffmann in 1815.

Protagonist Aale’s father died in a fire when she was a child. Years later, when her boyfriend dies the same way, loneliness and horrific memories draw Aale further and further from the external world. The events unravel in an enchanting black-and-white place where the world of the living and the world beyond intertwine. One cannot be sure where reality ends and imagination starts. The audience is confronted with the question: is it possible to let go of fears? Or will our childhood memories haunt us even as adults?

Premiere
on October 14th 2023 at the Vanemuine Theatre Grand Building

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Price:
27.00 € - 59.00 €