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"Cirque du Soleil" has presented one more masterpiece - rock opera “Zarkana”

In New York, the world’s most famous show creator Cirque du Soleil has presented the second premier of this year - rock opera “Zarkana” permeated with the most complicated acrobatic numbers. The Cirque du Soleil artists performing in the 75th play bring the audience to the place where the line between reality and imagination disappear - to the world of dreams, which everyone is made to believe in.

The main plotline of the performance is based on history of life of the magician named Zark. Zark has lost not only his magic powers, but also love for life. As a whole, one can say that “Zarkana” is a performance, where music and improbable acrobatic numbers bring to the world of imagination, where the chaos prevailing at first gradually gives place to celebration and love.

During the performance of a little more than two hours, applauses and conclamations of admiration are brought on by costumes of the artist embodying exotic creatures, huge sand pictures made by hand as well as the acrobats participating in “Zarkana”, who are flying in the air and perform the most complicated and most dangerous tricks. The performance is especially rich in tricks and numbers that include gliding and flying in the air.
 
After the premier, “Zarkana” has received not only a lot of praises from admirers of Cirque du Soleil, but also positive critical opinions. According to the latter, for each person in the audience “Zarkana” guarantees stunning images created not only by dangerous tricks artistically done by the talented acrobats, but also by impressing and very realistic video projections as well as both interesting and involving story and excellent music. Besides, the songs in this performance are performed in English, unlike songs in many other creations of Cirque du Soleil that are performed in Esperanto or an invented language.

The script of “Zarkana” was created and staged by famous movie and the Canadian theatre play director Francois Girard. Music for the performance was written by famous Australian musician, composer and producer Nick Littlemore, who had produced such performers as Elton John, Robbie Williams, and Groove Armanda. It is claimed that Sir Elton John himself has made a considerable contribution to writing the music for “Zarkana”.

Cirque du Soleil “Zarkana” performance is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kRu5KFUWgg

«Zarkana» has a temporary base in New York theatre Radio City Music Hall. Here, the performance will be on till 3 October and then, it will travel to Madrid and Moscow.

“Zarkana” is one of three shows which Cirque du Soleil will present this year. The show business giant already presented “Iris” performance which will be shown in Los Angeles; meanwhile, the legendary Michael Jackson based show prepared for the tour will premier this fall. If Cirque du Solei premiering in Lithuania with its performance “Saltimbanco” is successful, it is expected that in our country we will be able to see its newest creation based on history and work of Michael Jackson.

For the Lithuanian public, the Cirque du Soleil troupe performing for the first time on 15-17 December in Vilnius Siemens Arena will present one of the most technically complicated performances titled “Saltimbanco” which already fascinated millions of people all over the world with the spirit and energy it creates and the magic it fills the air with. Tiketa company is distributing the tickets for this unique, mysterious and, at the same time, extravagant performance removing the boundaries of physical capacities of a human.

About Cirque du Soleil
The history of Canadian circus Cirque du Soleil has begun in 1984 when a group of its founder Guy Laliberte and 20 street artists organized a performance in the city of Quebec celebrating the 450 anniversary of Canada’s discovery. Starting with 74 employees, today Cirque du Soleil already has 5 thousand employees, including more than 1300 of circus artists from almost 50 different countries. More than 100 million people in 300 cities of the world on six continents have already seen the magic performances created by Cirque du Soleil. It is estimated that approx. another 15 million people of the world will see the show this year.