Nikol Pashinyan`s wife and Head of Armenian NSS with his wife watched  ``Gayane`` ballet staged at Bolshoi Theater  

ArmInfo."Gayane" ballet by Aram Khachaturian was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre for the first time in 60 years, on July 24. The performation was dedicated to the 100th  anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia, the 2800th anniversary of Yerevan and the 115th anniversary of the great composer, the Armenian Embassy in Russia reports on its Facebook page.

The Armenian Prime Minister's wife Anna Hakobyan, the Head of the  National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan and Minister of  Culture of Armenia Lilit Makunts attended the long-waited event,  significant for the Armenian culture.

Before the performance, Armenian Ambassador to Russia Vardan  Toghanyan, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir  Medinsky and Artistic Director of the Armenian National Academic  Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after A. Spendiaryan Constantine  Orbelian made speeches. 

 " Gayane" ballet is a story of great love, devotion, feats of honest  and hardworking people. Our relationship has been exactly like this  for all these years, and Aram Ilyich's famous dance of sabers is the  personification of the unshakable spirit of our people, a burst of  emotion, energy, and this splash today and now on this stage should  inspire us to a more vigorous, all-round and deep development of our  relations with Russia, " the Armenian Ambassador to Russia said  speaking from the stage of the theatre.

Symphony Orchestra of the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera  and Ballet named after A. Spendiaryan headed by Honored Artist of  Russia Konstantin Orbelian and Atanes Arakelyan, the ballet troupe of  the theatre, leading soloists - Honored Artists of the Republic of  Armenia Ruben Muradyan, Suzanne Pirumyan, Meri Hovhannisyan, soloists  of the theatre Sona Vardanyan, Vahagn Margaryan, Razmik Marukyan  participated in the jubilee performance. Honored Artist of Armenia  Armen Grigoryan is director of the ballet troupe of the theatre.   Karen Khachatryan is the producer of the project.

The Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Russian Federation and  the Russian and Novo- Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic  Church were the initiators and organizers of the event.

"Gayane" ballet is one of the best performances of the Armenian Opera  and Ballet Theatre, staged in 1974 by the living legend of the  Armenian ballet, the outstanding dancer, ballet master, Honored  Artist of the Republic of Armenia Vilen Galstyan (he is also the  author of the libretto). In the music of Khachaturian, the  choreographer first of all seeks the basis for creating a national  character, not limited to the ethnographic reliability lying on the  surface, trying to penetrate deeper into the composer's intention. He  delicately feels the style of the Khachaturian's work, its vivid  national character, the flamy temperament and the richness of the  melodic language and, in accordance with this, builds the whole play.  He organically combines the richest arsenal of classical dance with  the characteristics of the Armenian national dance.