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Moldova National Opera Ballet
with the company. Born in Chişinău, Caftanat studied
ballet in Moscow, returning to his native city to dance
Siegfried, Prince Desire, Arald in Broken Sword and Antony
in Antony and Cleopatra.
Other notable productions at this time were: the Car-
men Suite; Sonnets, using Benjamin Britten’s music; the
Arabesques, with Lazarev’s music. Attempts to create na-
tional works included the children’s ballet Andriesh by
Zlata Tkach and Luceafarul by Eugen Doga based on Emi-
nescu’s best-known poem; while O Seara de Balet re-intro-
duced audiences to the classical choreography of Marius
Petipa, Ivanov, Fokine and Gorski. The Kirov Ballet pro-
duction of La Bayadère was carefully re-created by Tatiana
Leagt and showed how well the company could handle a
difficult work requiring first-class performers.
Moldovan 85 bani postage stamp commemorating the compa-
ny’s 50th anniversary in 2007 In 1998, the renowned choreographer Yuri Grig-
orovich from the Bolshoi came to Chişinău to direct his
The National Ballet of Moldova (Moldovan: Teatrului version of The Nutcracker, originally played at the Bolshoi
Naţional de Operă şi Balet din Republica Moldova) in in 1966. The company now toured to Moscow, Vietnam,
Chişinău, Moldova, is one of the leading ballet companies Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia,
in Eastern Europe. It is housed, together with the Nation- Romania, Hungary, Greece, Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg,
al Opera, in a theatre building on the Boulevard Stefan Los Angeles. In 1999 it brought productions of Swan Lake
the Great, one of the main roads in Chişinău (pronounced and Sleeping Beauty to the UK. Since 2001 the company
Kishinau), the capital of Moldova. Built during the years performed Grigorovich’s Nutcracker several times in the
of the Soviet Union, the theatre has superb equipment UK. This was the first time the production had been seen
and facilities; and it has established itself as one of the in this country since the Bolshoi performed it in London
leading . Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, this in the early seventies. The Moldova National Ballet has
theatre was one of the few to retain its own ballet, opera toured regularly in Spain since 2005, in January 2007 it
and orchestra, with its own soloists and chorus. performed The Best of Tchaikovsky in Spain and northern
Professional ballet began in Chişinău in 1957, after a Germany.
group of Moldovan dancers trained in Leningrad. New
works were soon provided for the company: the External links
Moldovan composer Vasile Zagorsky wrote the ballet
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Rassvet (Sunrise), while another composer Eduard
Moldova (in Moldovan)
Lazarev wrote Broken Sword, based on the poem "Ghosts",
by Mihai Eminescu, a leading Moldovan writer.
In its first ten years, the company added many well-
known classical ballets to its repertoire, including Giselle,
The Sleeping Beauty, Spartacus and Coppelia. It toured to
Moscow, Kiev and Bulgaria. The most successful of the
company’s modern ballet productions was A Young Lady
and a Hooligan, based on music by Shostakovitch, in which
the lead dancer was Mihai Caftanat, who is still working
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