Varna International Ballet and Orchestra will return to the UK following a debut tour in 2023, visiting 20 venues around the UK in 2025 with Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet.
The tour begins in Manchester on 2 January 2025, and visits Buxton, Bristol, Liverpool, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Basingstoke, Ipswich, Southend, Brighton, Nottingham, Reading, Oxford, Darlington, Wimbledon, Norwich, Hull, Sheffield, Leicester and Northampton, where it finishes on 5 March 2025.
Artistic Director Daniela Dimova said, “we are thrilled to be bringing our highly talented company of dancers and musicians back to the UK. We can’t wait to perform for British audiences again and to bring these magical ballets to life on stage.”
The Nutcracker, choreography by Vasily Vainonen, revised by Sergey Bobrov, begins as night falls on Christmas Eve. Swan Lake has choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Sergey Bobrov and Natalia Matus-Marchuk.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, set to Prokofiev’s score, has choreography by Sergey Bobrov and Bakhytzhan Smagulov.