Spartacus and the other escaped captives disrupt the orgy and rescue the slave women, including Phrygia. Meanwhile, Crassus entertains the Roman patricians with lavish entertainment. The escaped captives celebrate their freedom.

Horrified at his deed, Spartacus incites his fellow captives to rebellion. To entertain Crassus and his entourage, Spartacus is sent into the gladiatorial ring and is forced to kill a close friend. Spartacus laments his captivity and bids a bitter farewell to Phrygia, who is taken off to join Crassus’ harem of concubines. Among his captives are the Thracian king Spartacus and his wife Phrygia. The Roman consul Crassus returns to Rome from his latest conquests in a triumphal procession. Ivan Vasiliev in an extract from Spartacus during re-opening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre, 28 October 2011 It remains one of Khachaturian's best known works and is prominent within the repertoires of the Bolshoi Theatre and other ballet companies in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

The ballet received its first staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1958, choreographed by Igor Moiseyev however it was the 1968 production, choreographed by Yury Grigorovich, which achieved the greatest acclaim for the ballet. Yakobson restaged his version for the Bolshoi in 1962 and it was part of the Bolshoi's 1962 tour to New York. It was first staged in Leningrad on 27 December 1956, as choreographed by Leonid Yakobson, for the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Mariinsky Theatre), where it stayed in repertory for many years, but only with qualified success since Yakobson abandoned conventional pointe in his choreography. Khachaturian composed Spartacus in 1954, and was awarded a Lenin Prize for the composition that same year. The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record. Spartacus ( Russian: «Спартак», Spartak) is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978).

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