The dancers of this evening were: Lukas Zuschlag, Tjaša Kmetec, Rita Pollacchi, Petar Đorčevski, Luka Žiher, Georgeta Capraroiu, Iulian Anatol Ermalai, Barbara Marič, the ballet pupils Svit Pestotnik Stres, Lana Klemen, Vid Vidic, Neža Ana Goričar. The plot respects the novel’s construction and concentrates it convincingly. The success is reached by the choreographer Jiří Bubeníček – together with Marko Gašperšič, Jiří Bubeníček, Otto Bubeníček, Elsa Pavanel, Jaka Šimenc, Željka Ulčnik Remic, Mojca Kalar, Stefan Capraroiu, Claudia Sovre. In order to stay with related themes, I would suggest The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War (in Romanian: "Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război" 1930) by the Romanian writer Camil Petrescu or The Golden Man (in original: "Az aranyember" 1872) by the Hungarian author Mór Jókai. The result of the adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel I saw at the Ljubljana Opera and Ballet Theatre (on April 16 th, 2016) could be inspiring for choreographers from everywhere, opening ways for other such adaptations. Where could they find such a temerarious idea? There are a lot of risks: the length of the novel, the hard social realities depicted in mass scenes, the numerous characters, their complicated relationships, and, mainly, the risk of giving up its wonderful literary language.
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