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Dance Mystery in two acts and epochs, 11 scenes
Libretto Jana Temiz based on the novel by M. Bulgakov “Marster and Margarita”
Music Stefan Dimitrov
Choreography, director, and musical conception and musical dramaturgy Vasily
Medvedev
Assistant Choreographer Stanislav Fecho
Scenography and Costumes Pavol Urash
Conductor Vladimir Boshnakov
Choirmaster Mladen Stanev
Artistic Director of the Ballet Silviya Tomova
Multimedia Boris Chukanov
Concertmaster Paulina Zaharieva
Cast & Roles
The Master / Yeshua Ha-Nozri – Frederico Pinto
Margarita / Mary Magdalene – Anelia Dimitrova
Woland – Marcelo Molina
Pontius Pilate – Fiordi LohaHella / Niza – Clara Ferrer
Selection: Festival of Opera and Ballet Arts - Stara Zagora 2021.
"Crystal Lyre" in the category "Ballet Art" for the ballet troupe, 2022.
The theme of the spectacle is inspired by the novel by mihail bulgakov “Master and Margarita”. On this base, a surrealistic atmosphere is revealed the basic elements of the story are crystalised: the titles of the two acts - “Lux Aeterna” /Eternal Light/ and “Misericodia Pro nobis” /Mercy for Us/ - lead to associations with other literary classics like “Faust” by Geothe for example, and place the work in the context of the European musical heritage. The atmosphere in the novel by Bulgakov is re-created in the language of our modern world. The bright melodious interpretation embodies the multi-faceted ideas of good and evil, light and darkness, and the roots of these powers.
Picture ONE
Moscow, 1930 Patriarch’s lakes.
Summer, sultry weather and difficult breathing, people walking in the alley, hurrying to work. Woland and his suite appear. Invisible for the people around, Woland watches Moscovites.
Margarita is quarrelling with her husband and remains alone. Given a sign by Woland, Hella and the Cat organize a meeting between Margarita and the Master. The Cat Behemoth shows tricks: spreads banknotes, which turn into ordinary pieces of paper.
Picture 2
The room of the Master
The Master reads a malicious article about his novel, he is very much upset. Margarita comes, tries to calm down and comfort the Master. She starts turning over the pages of the manuscript - there appear images and apparitions from the novel… the action goes to Judea in the first century of our era.
Picture 3
Judaea, Gethsemane Garden.
Joshua and his disciples, including Judas. Ordinary people appear /among them Niza and Maria Magdalene/.
Niza and Judas try to chase away Maria: an immoral woman has no place among them. Maria bows to Joshua,he pulls her up and forgives her. There appear the Roman soldiers, led by Pilate Pontius - the dance of the winner.
Picture 4
The ,palace of Pilate Pontius.
Pilate suffers from migraine. Voland sends a servant to him with a cup of intoxicating wine. Pilate starts seeing fantastic, beautiful creatures, in his dream or awake. There appears beautiful Niza… The whole life of Pilate is like a dream, escape from reality.
Picture 5
The room of the Master.
Margarita finishes reading the novel and triumphantly congratulates the Master. Suddenly the servicemen of the City Police Department rush in: they accuse the Master of treason and want to arrest him. The manuscript is thrown into the hearth, The Master is declared insane. Margarita is in despair.
Suddenly there appears someone who collects the torn and burned partially pages, he gives them back to Margarita - the stranger is called Woland. For a short time she yields to his beauty and power, but comes to herself and remains alone with the remains of the manuscript and her sorrow.
Picture 6
The palace of Pilate Pontius
The priests come to the prosecutor, tell Pilate that Joshua preaches dangerous things and declares himself King of Judea. Pilate orders the arrest of the “criminal” in order to prevent rebellions and disorder. Joshua tries to convince Pilate that all people are good and he that does not call people to disobedience. However, the prosecutor obeys evil not good: the Prince of Darkness Woland watches him and Pilate obeys him and his fears. The fate of Joshua is decided: Pilate sends him to execution.
During the execution, the people first eager to punish the criminal,begin to understand that Joshua is not guilty for anything and feel compassion for his suffering. They kneel, plead to Joshua and ask for forgiveness for their sin and mistakes.
Second act. Misericordia Pro Nobis / Mercy for us/
Picture 7
The madhouse.
The Master, waking up in his ward, recalls his nightmares and apparitions from the past. There appear patients, they involve the Master in their mad dances. One of the insane imagines that he is Pilate Pontius. The Master wants to prove that he is normal, but by Woland’s order they put a relaxing /but actually deadly/ injection.
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Picture 8
The room of the MasterКСтаята на Майстора.
Margarita is alone and in despair. She remembers her past happiness and in her apparitions again experiences her first meeting with the Master. The Cat and Hella appear, they give Margarita an invitation for the ball of Woland - she is to be the Queen of the Ball.
Margarita refuses, full of doubt, she is afraid. Hella makes her understand that she can save the Master. The Cat gives her a magic cream - and Margarita is transformed: she becomes magically beautiful and capable of everything.
A flight of Margarita.
Picture 9
A ballroom
Woland’s suite finishes the preparation for the ball. There appears Margarita, she is introduced to Woland, he places a crown on Margarita’s head, but there is a condition: the Queen must not answer pleads for pardoning.
There sound trumpets - there begins the Great Ball of Woland. There appear famous villains from different epochs, all go to the Queen and traditionally kiss her knee. Among them is Pilate Pontius, Woland orders him to retreat aside and stay. Woland and Margarita solemnly close the Ball.
She looked at me in surprise, and I suddenly and entirely unexpectedly realized that all my life I have loved exactly this woman!...
Picture 10
Margarita gives back the crown to Woland and says farewell to him and his suite. Woland stops her: she has passed the test - she did not ask forgiveness for her and the Master.
From the fire of the hearth the Cat takes out whole and safe the manuscript of the novel. Woland shows Margarita all versions of the fate of the Master: the crucified Joshua in Jerusalem, a poisoned patient in a madhouse - and the real one whom Woland gives back to Margarita. Woland invites Pilate Pontius to come nearer: the cruel prosecutor recognizes in the Master the one whom he once sent to death - Joshua. Pilate implores the Master for mercy and forgiveness, and the Master and Margarita forgive him. A thunderstorm begins. Woland’s guests are taken by a whirl, pushed in the funnel of time, and return to their epochs. But Woland determines a different fate for the Master, Margarita and Pilate.
Picture 11
The lonely Pilate Pontius leaves this world, going to another dimension - to Eternity: he was given forgiveness: , but he is doomed to eternal roaming and pondering.
Woland gives the Master and Margarita cups of poisonous wine; they die - but they turn out not in lefelessnes, but in another time and space, which do not have a beginning or an end. Here, in eternity, in a new hypostasis, the Master and Margarita will remain forever - a symbols of the true, real, eternal love.
