Japanese dancer Nobuo Fujino will perform in a ballet based on Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella, which will be staged at the HCM City Opera House on Friday and Saturday (April 28 and 29).
Japanese dancer Nobuo Fujino will play the Prince in the Cinderella ballet to be staged at the HCM City Opera House on April 28 and 29. (Photo: HBSO)
HCM City (VNA) - Japanese dancer Nobuo Fujino will perform in aballet based on Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella, which willbe staged at the HCM City Opera House on Friday and Saturday (April 28 and 29).
Fujinowill play the Prince, while Cinderella will be performed by young dancer TranHoang Yen.
The show will include Dang Minh Hien as the stepmother, French dancer ChloeGlemot as the Fairy Godmother, and dancers from the HCM City Ballet SymphonyOrchestra and Opera (HBSO).
The ballet is choreographed by Norwegian Johanne Jakhelln Constant, who is alsoin charge of costume and stage design.
Fujino was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Danse, one of the mostprestigious ballet competitions founded in 1991 by the International DanceAssociation in Moscow, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia in 2005.
He won the Rising Artist of the Hong Kong Arts Development Board in 2003.
He has played leading roles in several famousballets, including Quixote, Giselle and Anna Karenina.
Prokofiev composed Cinderella between1940 and 1944, and it has inspired an estimated 1,500 ballet versions aroundthe world.
Its premiere was choreographed by RostislavZakharov and conducted by Yuri Fayer in 1945 at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre.
The ballet was first performed at the city’s Opera House in 2013, and hasbecome an annual awaited performance for the city’s audiences, especially youngpeople.
The show will begin at 8pm at 7 Lam Son Square inDistrict 1. Tickets can be purchased at the venue or via www.ticketbox.vn.-VNA
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Japanese dancer Nobuo Fujino will play the Prince in the Cinderella ballet to be staged at the HCM City Opera House on April 28 and 29. (Photo: HBSO) 
