Valery Kopeikin – author of the libretto, general producer
Alexander Mogilev – choreographer, director
Arseny Smirnov – composer
Anastasia Kapustina – production designer
Igor Chapurin – costume designer
The Astana Ballet is opening the new season with a story about beauty woven from secrets. The first premiere of the new season is the ballet entitled “Two Carpets”. This two-act ballet, created in the neoclassical style, intertwines historical truth and fiction. The story is both incredible and plausible. It happened, or it could have happened, in our world. It is woven like a carpet from different threads that connect the fates of people, countries and eras.
The legend of the “Shirvan carpet” inspired a ballet about love, loss, and rediscovered happiness. The ballet is set against the backdrop of historical events of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Baku, St. Petersburg and Vienna, immersing the audience in the atmosphere of the era of change. “Two Carpets” is a story about the friendship of a girl, Leyla, and a boy, Samir, from Baku, which develops into a single love story, about separations and losses, about temptation and loyalty. Fate intervenes and sends Samir, who lost his memory after the war, to Vienna. He has Margot, a woman who loves him. But a stroke of luck and a carpet woven in his homeland help him remember his beloved and return to her.