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Anna Karenina November 15, 2026, 18:00
Description
“Anna Karenina” is a ballet by Boris Eifman, set to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. At the heart of the production is the tragic fate of a woman torn between duty, family, and an all-consuming passion. Through the expressive language of contemporary choreography, the ballet explores the depths of human emotion, the characters’ inner conflicts, and the destructive power of a love that defies society’s conventions.
P. I. Tchaikovsky
Anna Karenina
A ballet by B. Eifman
Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky
Production Team
Stage Choreographer – Boris Eifman, People’s Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prize (Saint Petersburg)
Set Designer – Zinoviy Margolin
Costume Designer – Vyacheslav Okunev, People’s Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prizes of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan
Lighting Designer – Alexey Donde
Choreographer’s Assistants – Olga Kalmykova, Oleg Paradnik
Artistic Director of the Ballet Company – Gulzhan Tutkibayeva, Chief Choreographer of the Abai KNOBT, People’s Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Cast
- Anna Karenina
- Vronsky
- Karenin
- Kitty
Act I
A fashionable ball brings together members of high society. Anna is there with her husband, an influential official. Anna meets the young officer Vronsky, who has come to the ball with the young Kitty. Anna instantly captivates the handsome, impetuous and elegant young man. But what is happening in her soul?
Anna feels a growing aversion to her husband, who is attentive and caring, yet has already become a stranger to her. Karenina’s mind and body suffer under the weight of invisible shackles. Her husband’s solicitude is unbearable to Anna. A fatal passion for Vronsky burns ever more fiercely in her heart – a consuming emotion that will soon transform Karenina into a woman possessed, plunging her reason into the darkness of madness…
The horse races begin. Anna revels in Vronsky’s company. Karenin witnesses the lovers together.
St. Petersburg society condemns the relationship between Anna and Vronsky. Anna’s husband stoically endures the gossip of high society. But how humiliating his position has become!
Anna’s desire for Vronsky grows steadily. Karenina and the young officer languish in anticipation of their next meeting, then abandon themselves to passionate embraces. Their illicit affair intoxicates them.
Anna’s husband’s torment intensifies. After a quarrel between the spouses, Karenina has a terrifying dream. A succession of phantasmagorical images merges into a sinister prophecy, filled with foreboding of disaster. Awakening from this dreadful nightmare, Anna begs her husband to forgive her.
Act II
A noisy, drunken gathering of officers. Vronsky joins them but finds no solace in wine or revelry. His thoughts are entirely consumed by Anna.
Scandals in the Karenin household have become commonplace. Once again, the humiliated husband appeals to Anna, but she remains deaf to his pleas. Karenin confronts Vronsky, who makes no attempt to conceal his relationship with Anna from her husband.
Seeking long-awaited freedom from the oppressive burden of suffering and turmoil, Vronsky and Karenina travel through Europe and attend the Venetian Carnival. Yet neither the splendour and vibrant colours of the festivities nor her lover’s embrace can save Anna from her relentless inner torment. The growing coldness in Vronsky’s behaviour only deepens her suffering.
St. Petersburg society turns its back on Anna. From now on, Karenina is an outcast. She sinks ever deeper into an abyss of despair and madness, driven there by her obsessive passion. Her relationship with Vronsky is destroyed by endless scenes of jealousy and his rapidly growing indifference towards her.
Anna seeks refuge from her unbearable suffering in morphine. Yet the drug brings no relief, transporting her tormented mind instead into a terrifying world of infernal visions.
Anna’s end is near. Her soul has been shattered by an all-consuming, blind passion, and her consciousness is clouded by narcotics. Desperate to put an end to her inhuman torment, Anna rushes to the railway station, where the immense force of a speeding train mercilessly brings her agonising and seemingly meaningless life to an end.
“Anna Karenina” is a ballet by Boris Eifman, set to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. At the heart of the production is the tragic fate of a woman torn between duty, family, and an all-consuming passion. Through the expressive language of contemporary choreography, the ballet explores the depths of human emotion, the characters’ inner conflicts, and the destructive power of a love that defies society’s conventions.
P. I. Tchaikovsky
Anna Karenina
A ballet by B. Eifman
Music by P. I. Tchaikovsky
Production Team
Stage Choreographer – Boris Eifman, People’s Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prize (Saint Petersburg)
Set Designer – Zinoviy Margolin
Costume Designer – Vyacheslav Okunev, People’s Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prizes of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan
Lighting Designer – Alexey Donde
Choreographer’s Assistants – Olga Kalmykova, Oleg Paradnik
Artistic Director of the Ballet Company – Gulzhan Tutkibayeva, Chief Choreographer of the Abai KNOBT, People’s Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Cast
- Anna Karenina
- Vronsky
- Karenin
- Kitty
Act I
A fashionable ball brings together members of high society. Anna is there with her husband, an influential official. Anna meets the young officer Vronsky, who has come to the ball with the young Kitty. Anna instantly captivates the handsome, impetuous and elegant young man. But what is happening in her soul?
Anna feels a growing aversion to her husband, who is attentive and caring, yet has already become a stranger to her. Karenina’s mind and body suffer under the weight of invisible shackles. Her husband’s solicitude is unbearable to Anna. A fatal passion for Vronsky burns ever more fiercely in her heart – a consuming emotion that will soon transform Karenina into a woman possessed, plunging her reason into the darkness of madness…
The horse races begin. Anna revels in Vronsky’s company. Karenin witnesses the lovers together.
St. Petersburg society condemns the relationship between Anna and Vronsky. Anna’s husband stoically endures the gossip of high society. But how humiliating his position has become!
Anna’s desire for Vronsky grows steadily. Karenina and the young officer languish in anticipation of their next meeting, then abandon themselves to passionate embraces. Their illicit affair intoxicates them.
Anna’s husband’s torment intensifies. After a quarrel between the spouses, Karenina has a terrifying dream. A succession of phantasmagorical images merges into a sinister prophecy, filled with foreboding of disaster. Awakening from this dreadful nightmare, Anna begs her husband to forgive her.
Act II
A noisy, drunken gathering of officers. Vronsky joins them but finds no solace in wine or revelry. His thoughts are entirely consumed by Anna.
Scandals in the Karenin household have become commonplace. Once again, the humiliated husband appeals to Anna, but she remains deaf to his pleas. Karenin confronts Vronsky, who makes no attempt to conceal his relationship with Anna from her husband.
Seeking long-awaited freedom from the oppressive burden of suffering and turmoil, Vronsky and Karenina travel through Europe and attend the Venetian Carnival. Yet neither the splendour and vibrant colours of the festivities nor her lover’s embrace can save Anna from her relentless inner torment. The growing coldness in Vronsky’s behaviour only deepens her suffering.
St. Petersburg society turns its back on Anna. From now on, Karenina is an outcast. She sinks ever deeper into an abyss of despair and madness, driven there by her obsessive passion. Her relationship with Vronsky is destroyed by endless scenes of jealousy and his rapidly growing indifference towards her.
Anna seeks refuge from her unbearable suffering in morphine. Yet the drug brings no relief, transporting her tormented mind instead into a terrifying world of infernal visions.
Anna’s end is near. Her soul has been shattered by an all-consuming, blind passion, and her consciousness is clouded by narcotics. Desperate to put an end to her inhuman torment, Anna rushes to the railway station, where the immense force of a speeding train mercilessly brings her agonising and seemingly meaningless life to an end.
Cast and Performers
(November 15, 2026, 18:00)
- Anna Karenina Zhanel Tukeeva
- Vronsky Azamat Askarov
- Karenin Arkhat Ashirbek, Honored Worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Kitty Aiman Yegisbayeva
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The Ballet Troupe of the Abay Kazakh National Theatre of Opera and Ballet
- Stage Choreographer – Boris Eifman, (Saint Petersburg), People’s Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prize
- Set Designer – Zinoviy Margolin
- Costume Designer – Vyacheslav Okunev, People’s Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prizes of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Lighting Designer – Alexey Donde
- Choreographer’s Assistants – Olga Kalmykova, Oleg Paradnik
- Artistic Director of the Ballet Company – Gulzhan Tutkibayeva, Chief Choreographer of the Abai KNOBT, People’s Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan