Pierrot Lunaire by Alexei Ratmansky (V. Tereshkina, K. Kim, A. Sergeev, K. Zverev, Yu. Matochkina)

Music by Arnold Shönberg Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Set design and costumes by Tatyana Chernova Lighting designer: Tony Marquez Assistant lighting designer: Alexander Naumov Performed by: Viktoria Tereshkina Kimin Kim Alexander Sergeev Konstantin Zverev Mezzo-soprano: Yulia Matochkina Conductor: Arseny Shuplyakov Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya (violin) Mikhail Anikeyev (viola) Yekaterina Larina (cello) Maria Arsenyeva (flute) Vasily Zhuchenko (clarinet) Andrei Bezruchko (bass clarinet) Lyudmila Sveshnikova (piano) Recorded at the Mariinsky theatre on September 24, 2020 Olga Makarova, ballet critic: “Pierrot Lunaire“ combines Schoenberg’s atonal music, the poetry of symbolist Giraud, Ratmansky’s choreography for classical dancers and commedia dell’arte characters in a refined cocktail of moods and senses. In 1912, the composer-rebel-against-the-norm Arnold Schoenberg, in writing his song cycle, “forged“ the Romantic pathos of the image of the Moon with the comedic mask of Pierrot. At that time, a rupture of