THE CORSAIR Adam – Estonian National Ballet

Описание: A passionate pirate Conrad rescues the enslaved Medora; he battles rivals, treachery and a corrupt pasha to be with her. With his fellow pirates, Conrad abducts Medora from a slave market to a secret grotto but will the lovers ultimately escape danger and find freedom together?

Despite having written over 40 operas, the ballets Giselle and The Corsair remain Adolphe Adam’s best known works. Loosely based on Lord Byron’s 1814 poem of the same name, The Corsair is a swashbuckling adventure. For OperaVision’s first steam from Tallinn, Estonian National Ballet has entrusted the choreography to José Martinez, director of dance at the Paris Opera, who comments: ‘For me it was a ballet that I never danced myself and it was interested to try to do something that would be respectful of the tradition, not a new version of a classical ballet. I wanted to give The Corsair something unique, and at the same time preserve the lush and beauty of all these famous moments, like the magic garden or the big pas de deux, the pas d’esclaves. I put all these iconic parts at the centre of the ballet and round them I built my story.”

Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 1 May 2026 at 19:00 CET to 1 November 2026 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/co...

CAST

Conrad
Joel Calstar-Fisher

Medora
Ami Morita

Lankendem
Ali Urata

Gulnare
Marta Navasardyan

Ali
Yuki Nonaka

Birbanto
Nikos Gkentsef

Birbanto’s girlfriend
Marjana Fazullina

Pasha-Seyd
William Newton

Eunuch
João Xavier

Odalisques
Marjana Fazullina
Nanae Maruyama
Phillipa McCann

Magic Garden soloists
Kim Jana Hügi
Alice Pelizza
Ellinor Piirmäe
Polina Sosimova

Pirates, slaves, merchants, guards, servants, women in the harem
Estonian National Ballet
Extras, Students of the Tallinn School of Music and Ballet

Orchestra
Estonian National Opera Orchestra

Music
Adolphe Adam

Choreography
José Carlos Martinez

Conductor
Lauri Sirp

Sets and costumes
Iñaki Cobos

Lights
Rasmus Rembel

Video
Taavi Varm

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