THE RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE

Biography

Ballet in 2 acts with prologue and epilogue.

Composer - Mikhail Chulaki. Libretto - Mintai Tleubayev, based on the libretto by Yuri Slonimsky based on "The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda" by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; artistic version of the libretto - Nikolai Grinkevich. Choreography and staging - Mintai Tleubayev. Set designer - Igor Korogodin. Costume designer - Lilia Fyodorova, Conductor - Balari Akitaev.

The premiere took place on October 19, 1975 on the stage of the Abay SAOBT.

Characters and performers: Balda - Alexander Medvedev, Bulat Valiev; Priest - Alexei Maksimov, Kairat Mazhikeyev; Priest’s daughter - Inna Gulyaeva, Farida Koigeldinova; Priest’s wife- Yuri Malykh, Kamil Yerenchin; Priest’s son - Tamara Malbekova, Irina Shklovskaya; She-devil - Lyudmila Li, Inna Gulyaeva; Old devil - Kairat Mazhikeyev, Dyusenbek Nakipov; Little devil - Zhumagul Zhalpakova; Hares - Faina Svetlysheva, Galiya Buribayeva; Gypsies - Eduard Malbekov, Lyudmila Li, Galia Abayeva; Harmonist, Mare, Bear, spoon players, balalaika girls- ballet dancers.

Children's fairy-tale ballet with Russian national flavor. In the Underwater Kingdom, devils have fun playing prank on the Priest. Returning from the Underwater Kingdom, the Priest meets Balda in a noisy bazaar and decides to hire him as a worker. Balda agrees to work not for money, but for three clicks a year on the forehead of the Priest.

Balda likes the owner's daughter - Popovna. Upon learning of this, Priest in anger sends Balda to the Underwater Kingdom for the Little devil in order to get rid of Balda, and even make fun of him.

At the bottom of the sea, Balda wins the Old devil in competition and takes the Little devil with him. Balda and Priest’s daughter are together again. By agreement, Priest turns his forehead, and Balda clicks his forehead with pleasure three times in front of everyone.