Music: Khamit Shangaliyev and Alibek Alpiyev
Libretto: Bakhyt Kairbekov, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan
Choreographer-director: Mukaram Avakhri, Honored Worker of Kazakhstan
Choreographer-director's assistant: Aizhan Zhunissova
Set Designer: Leonid Basin
Costume Designer: Asya Solovieva
Lighting Designer: Arsenia Safiullina
The ballet "Sultan Beibars" is a remarkably beautiful, strikingly exciting story about the dizzying path to the heights of fame and power. This path always requires sacrifice in the name of serving higher goals.
The fate of a man who went from a warrior slave (Mamluk) to a powerful ruler of the most powerful state in the Middle East in the 13th century is surprising and contradictory. Sultan Beibars, earned the names "Abul-Futukh" ("Father of Victories") and "Rukn-ad-din" ("Support of Faith"). Born in the Desht-i-Kipchak steppes, Beibars I forever entered world history as a great commander who dispelled the myth of the invincibility of the Mongol horde. Many legends about Beibars have survived, there are many versions of the story about the dizzying life of the Sultan, but they all agree on one thing: throughout his life he will retain in his soul a nostalgic love for his historical homeland - the Kypchak steppe.
Spectacular crowd scenes and rich costumes, artistic means with fantasy elements of mysticism create a full sense of the superreality of what is happening on the stage.