Sergei Prokofiev's last ballet was difficult to create, did not have success at the premiere and had a great stage fate. The 1957 version by choreographer Yuri Grigorovich became a classic. The first production of Prokofiev's The Stone Flower in Yekaterinburg was similar to her.
Anton Pimonov is staging a completely new play. Together with Juliana Laikova– the artist of Tales of Perrault, now she acts as a set designer, costume designer and director – they start from the mythology of Bazhov's fairy tales and complement it by listening to Prokofiev's music. Today it is difficult to put a The Stone Flower only about the secrets of making a malachite vase. Following The Little Humpbacked Horse, the theater offers a performance about a special "Ural people", as well as how not to petrify if stone flowers grow around.
It was first staged at the Ural Opera in 2008. The second production
