Sabre Dance

Cold autumn of 1942. Second year of war. Former Molotov city, which was renamed after the war to Perm. The Leningrad Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Kirov is evacuated here and in the process of tense preparations for the premiere of the Gayane ballet. In 8 hours Khachaturian writes the most performed creation…

Cast

Ambartsum Kabanyan

Aram Khachaturyan

Alexander Kuznetsov

Pushkov

Sergey Yushkevich

Derzhavin

Veronika Kuznetsova

Sashenka

Inna Stepanova

Anisimova