The Mariinsky Ballet will have "The Great Gatsby"

The famous work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, will get even more popular thanks to the many adaptations, the last of which came out just last year, will find new paint and appear before the St. Petersburg audience at the Mariinsky Theatre in the form of ballet.

Staging of the ballet "The Great Gatsby" by the eponymous and most popular works of American writer of the "lost generation", choreographer and one of the founders of the troupe Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Dwight Rhoden. In this premiere ballet transcriptions of "The Great Gatsby" St. Petersburg will see this fall.

It is known that Denis Matvienko of the Mariinsky Theatre will perform the main role of Jay Gatsby, and music will be composed by Konstantin Meladze, familiar to many as the founder of the band "VIA Gra" and songwriter of Russian pop stars. Among them are: Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Vera Brezhneva, Christina Orbakajte, Ani Lorak and many others.