Main Stage

Artistic Director: Alexey Miroshnichenko

Ballet Master-Producers: Bruce Sansom, Grant Coyle

Lighting Designer: Igor Zinn

One-act ballet to music composed by Petr Tchaikovsky and arranged by Philip Gammon, traditional Russian music arranged by Sarah Freestone

Choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. Costumes designed by Peter Farmer

It was first presented in London in 1991. The Russian premiere was taken place in Perm in 2014. Running time: 50 minutes

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Winter Dreams, inspired by Chekhov’s play Three Sisters, to music from different works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky is a beautiful embodiment of melancholy through the medium of choreography.

The ballet is staged in collaboration with the Kenneth MacMillan Foundation in accordance with MacMillan’s style and technique

I. Les Patineurs (one-act ballet) 
Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer from the operas Le Prophète and L'Étoile du Nord arranged by Constant Lambert
Choreography by Frederick Ashton 
Set and Costumes designer: William Chappell Staged by Julie Lincoln
Lighting Designer: Igor Zinn 
The ballet is staged in collaboration with the Frederick Ashton Foundation in accordance with Ashton’s style and technique 

II. When the Snow Was Falling (one-act ballet) 
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Choreography and scenography by Douglas Lee
Assistant Choreographer :Alexander Zaitsev 
Lighting Designer: Igor Zinn

III. Winter Dreams (one-act ballet) 
Music by Petr Tchaikovsky arranged by Philip Gammon, traditional Russian music arranged by Sarah Freestone
Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
Set and Costume design by Peter Farmer
Staged by Bruce Sansom, Grant Coyle
Lighting Designer: Igor Zinn
The ballet is staged in collaboration with the Kenneth MacMillan Foundation in accordance with MacMillan’s style and technique

Performed by soloists of the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre
Principal ballet master: Alexey Miroshnichenko