Schedule for "Medea" Ballet 2022

Composer: Jean-Joseph Rodolphe

Orchestra: St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony orchestra

The ballet is based on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, and the hero's encounter with the sorceress Medea. Jason, in order to regain his throne from his usurper-uncle Creon, ventures forth with his companion Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece. The precious object becomes his when a powerful sorceress named Medea helps him conquer the dragon guarding it Jason has two children by Medea, but he abandons her for the nymph Creusa. Medea sends the nymph a poisoned mantle whose fire consumes her, and then, in a jealous rage, kills her own children.