Anyuta is a ballet in two acts to music by Valery Gavrilin, a stage version of the television film-ballet Anyuta. Libretto by Alexander Belinsky and Vladimir Vasiliev based on the story by A.P. Chekhov "Anna on the Neck". First staged at the Teatro San Carlo (Naples) in 1986.

This ballet is the first time in history when a choreographic work is transferred from the screen to the stage, and not vice versa, which happened more than once. The television film-ballet Anyuta, invented and staged by screenwriter and director Alexander Belinsky in 1982, was a well-deserved success not only at home, but also in Europe. An elegantly conceived story based on the story “Anna on the Neck” by A.P. Chekhov was born by Belinsky when he heard a Waltz written by the Leningrad composer Valery Gavrilin.

“Alexander Belinsky had long wanted to make a television ballet based on Chekhov, he “walked around” the “Bad Anecdote” for a long time, and then one day he heard Valery Gavrilin’s waltz and realized that this was a real “Chekhov waltz.” So, not from literature, but the idea of the film was born from the music, although it was based on the motives of the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, mostly “Anna on the Neck” ... For “Anyuta”, Alexander Arkadyevich, together with Volodya, selected music literally piece by piece from various works of Valery Gavrilin."
Ekaterina Maksimova

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"Usually, the film adaptation of the work follows its theatrical incarnation. But here is a rare case: the TV movie Anyuta, which was a great success here and abroad, won the Intervision Prize and was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR, found a new life in the theater of Naples, and then and on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR."
Alexander Belinsky

It was the success of the film-ballet that made Vladimir Vasiliev think about transferring the production to the stage. Stanislav Gorkovenko added music, expanded choreographic numbers, and in 1986 a new ballet was born, doomed to a long stage life not only because of the famous first performers and excellent musical material, but also due to the compactness of the performance and the convenience of adapting the title part for any ballerina.