MILAN, April 6 (Reuters) – Italian Jacopo Tissi has returned to Milan’s La Scala after the battle in Ukraine prompted his abrupt departure from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow the place he had been promoted to principal dancer on the flip of the yr.
The 27-year-old carried out on the Bolshoi theatre for the final time on March 3 earlier than leaving all of the sudden early the next morning, taking solely the necessities with him after 5 years in Russia.
“I used to be overwhelmed by emotion…It was a second I can’t simply neglect,” he advised Reuters, preventing again tears as he described leaving the Bolshoi and the exhibits he had ready so exhausting for.
Tissi, who was born in northern Italy and skilled at La Scala, stated he needed to take the choice to depart Moscow in a short time.
“There was a relatively heavy ambiance…It was not attainable to hold on doing my job,” he stated.
Tissi will carry out on Thursday in a gala for Ukrainian refugees at one other Milan theatre earlier than taking over the function of visitor principal dancer at La Scala 2022/23 ballet season.
He says he learnt loads in Moscow however doesn’t remorse leaving.
“I’ve to say it is because of the Bolshoi for making me the artist I’m right now,” he stated.
He’s reluctant to get too drawn into commenting on the state of affairs in Ukraine following the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, describing the state of affairs as “horrible, unhappy and unimaginable too”.
Requested a couple of profit ballet staged final weekend on the Bolshoi, Tissi stated, “There are at all times two sides in a battle, and victims on one facet and the opposite.”
Tissi is now discovering solace in being again dwelling.
“Returning to bop in Italy, in Milan, a metropolis that’s near my coronary heart, in a really particular theatre, is in fact one thing I’m blissful about.”
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Reporting by Sara Rossi
Modifying by Keith Weir, Alexandra Hudson
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