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Bolshoi Ballet off to the USA and Canada.

Anastasia Stashkevich and Artem Ovcharenko are promoted from the First Soloists to the Leading Soloists; Olga Smirnova and Denis Savin — from the Soloists to the First Soloists; Anzhelina Vorontsova, Daria Khokhlova — from the Artists to the Soloists.

Ekaterina Krysanova appears as Jeanne, Vyacheslav Lopatin — as Philippe, Anastasia Stashkevich — as Adeline, Kristina Kretova — as Mireille de Poitiers.

Mariinsky star Diana Vishneva is to make her debut in the part of Coralie.

Evgenia Obraztsova is to dance the title part in La Sylphide — for the first time with Bolshoi Ballet.

Anna Nikulina is promoted from the First Soloist to the Leading Soloist; Pavel Dmitrichenko — from the Soloist to the First Soloist; Dmitry Zagrebin — from the Artist to the Soloist.

Mr Hallberg will make his debut in Swan Lake with Bolshoi Ballet opposite Svetlana Zakharova.

Bolshoi Theatre General Director Anatoly Iksanov awarded the Légion d’Honneur.

On 9 October, the Bolshoi Theatre and the French Company Pathe Live (former CielEcran), are to continue their live performances in real time of Bolshoi Ballet productions, with a screening of La Esmeralda. Maria Alexandrova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Ekaterina Krysanova and Denis Savin will dance the lead roles.

The Bolshoi Theatre is again to produce the most caustic and paradoxical of Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas, the most “unfairytale-like” of all his tales, the tale about the golden cockerel.

A memorial plaque, dedicated to the remarkable Russian choreographer, Merited Artist of the Imperial Theatres, Alexander Gorsky (1871-1924) who, for well nigh quarter of a century (1902-1924) headed the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company and made a huge contribution to the formation of the Moscow style of Russian classical ballet, returned to its rightful place on the house - No 4/2 Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street (today the Bolshoi Theatre New Stage) - where the choreographer lived at the beginning of the last century.

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Vуacheslav Lopatin is promoted from the First Soloist to the Leading Soloist; Anastasia Stashkevich and Vladislav Lantratov - from Soloists to the First Soloists; Chinara Alizade, Уulia Grebenshcikova and Anna Tikhomirova - from Artists to the Soloists.

Under the umbrella of the Year of Italy in Russia and of the international cooperation between Dresden and Moscow, the semi-finals and final of the Competizione dell’opera, the international competition for singers of Italian opera, will take place at the Bolshoi Theatre. It is the first time that this competition, which up to now has always been held in Germany, will take place in Russia.

The program of the tour includes several performances of Eugene Onegin and a symphony concert.

The Bolshoi Theatre and CielEcran are going to broadcast live performance in real time of Bolshoi Ballet production of Coppelia in over 300 cinemas in 22 countries. (Beginning at 5 p.m. Paris time.) The leading parts will be taken by Natalia Osipova and Vyacheslav Lopatin. For a complete list of the cinemas consult the www.cielecran.com site.

The Benois de la Danse Prize will be awarded for the nineteenth time to the most outstanding members of the world dance community for the works they created in the year 2010.

The tour venue is the Palais Garnier.

Ottavio Marino is to give his first performance with the Bolshoi Theatre. He'll conduct La Boheme on May 3 & 2.

The Bolshoi Ballet presents the world premiere of Lost Illusions. An unprecedented occasion: taking part in the production are three former Bolshoi Theatre artistic directors of recent years: composer — Leonid Desyatnikov, choreographer — Alexei Ratmansky and conductor — Alexander Vedernikov. From such an experienced team interesting results can be expected!

Ruslan Pronin, the former Bolshoi Ballet soloist, has been appointed the Bolshoi Ballet Assistant Artistic Director.

In organizing the 2nd International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival, in honor of the maestro’s memory, the MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH Foundation has put a big stake on ballet by inviting the American Ballet Theatre, one of the two ‘top’ American ballet companies, to Moscow. The last major ABT tour to the Russian capital was over 40 years ago; the venue this time will be the Bolshoi Theatre New Stage.

The series of subscription concerts given by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall winds up with a program devoted to the works of Johannes Brahms, conducted by Maestro Vassily Sinaysky.

Bolshoi Theatre Philharmonic season ticket program for the 2011/12 season.

Sergei Filin, the former Bolshoi Ballet principal and the former Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre Ballet Director, has been appointed the Bolshoi Ballet Artistic Director.

The Bolshoi Theatre and CielEcran are going to broadcast live performance in real time of Bolshoi Ballet production of Don Quixote in over 300 cinemas in 22 countries. (Beginning at 5 p.m. Paris time.) The leading parts will be taken by Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev. For a complete list of the cinemas consult the www.cielecran.com site. 

On March 3 and 5 the Bolshoi is presenting again a triple bill of one-act ballet - masterpieces of the 20th century. Works which have lost none of their contemporary appeal as we move into the 2lst century and are eminently suited to serve as reference points for new generations of choreographers.

The Year of the Russia in France and France in Russia cross-cultural exchange is over, but the mutual interest of these two countries for each other’s art is infinite! Under the aegis of last year’s Russo-French cultural program, the Bolshoi Theatre undertook the role of active organizer of the Paris Opera Ballet Company tour to Novosibirsk. This illustrious Company’s forthcoming season at the Bolshoi is a logical continuation of the project.

Bolshoi is again to perform on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. Three performances of  La Bayadere will run on February 3, 4, 5 and one performance of Don Quixote - on 27^th.

The Bolshoi Ballet’s triumphant London tour last summer has brought it 3 nominations for the English Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. And all of them are ours now! Bolshoi Ballet has considered to be the best among foreign companies visited Britain last year. Natalia Osipova has been acclaimed as the best female dancer, and Ivan Vasiliev — as the best male one.

The Bolshoi Theatre and CielEcran are going to broadcast live performance in real time of Bolshoi Ballet productions of Giselle and Class Concert in over 300 cinemas in 22 countries. (Beginning at 5 p.m. Paris time.) The leading parts in Giselle will be taken by Svetlana Lunkina and Dmitry Gudanov. Among the dansers taking part in Class Concert will be Maria Alexandrova, Maria Allash, Anna Antonicheva, Yelena Andrienko, Nina Kaptsova, Andrei Bolotin, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Vladislav Lantratov, Artem Ovcharenko, Yegor Khromushin.
For a complete list of the cinemas consult the www.cielecran.com site. 

On 12 January the part of Jose will be sung by the young Brazilian tenor and winner of 2^nd prize at the Operalia Competition, Thiago Arancam. The 11-14 January performances of Carmen will be conducted by Maestro Emmanuel Joel-Hornak, an acknowledged interpreter of the French opera repertoire.

The Bolshoi Theatre and CielEcran are going to broadcast live performance in real time of Bolshoi Ballet production of Nutcracker in over 300 cinemas in 22 countries. (Beginning at 5 p.m. Paris time.) The leading parts will be taken by Nina Kaptsova and Artyom Ovcharenko. For a complete list of the cinemas consult the www.cielecran.com site.

THE BOLSHOI THEATRE OF RUSSIA and CIELECRAN, the French TV Company, are happy to announce 4 live performances in real time of Bolshoi Ballet productions in over 300 cinemas in 22 countries. The Nutcracker is the first to be shown in cinemas. The live broadcast of this ballet will be on 19 December 2010, at 5 p.m. Paris time.

To wind up the France-Russia year, the Bolshoi Theatre, in association with Paris National Opera, is presenting its audiences with the WORLD PREMIEREof the opera The Cherry Orchard. And it is introducing a new name to the Russian public - that of composer Philippe Fenelon.

Not Russian classical opera of the 19^th century but, on the contrary, a Western 20^th century avant-garde work (already however a classic) in a Bolshoi Theatre production is to be transmitted live by Mezzo, the popular French TV channel devoted to classical music, opera, ballet, jazz and world music. “Listen, Look, Dare” is Mezzo’s slogan. And in producing Alan Berg’s opera Wozzeck, the Bolshoi has demonstrated that this is an attitude it fully supports. The live broadcast of this opera (conductor Teodor Currentzis, director Dmitri Tcherniakov) from the Bolshoi will be on 26 November 2010, at 5 p.m. Paris time.

A PRESS CONFERENCE on the forthcoming live relay of the opera WOZZECK will take place in the atrium of the Bolshoi Theatre Auxiliary Building, starting at2 p. m.

In October Bolshoi ballet is to perform on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. Four performances of La Fille du Pharaon will run on October13, 14,15 & 16. Then they be followed by four performances of The Sleeping Beauty - on 21-24.

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Telenor keeps you in touch!

Artem Ovcharenko is promoted from Soloist to First Soloist; Olga Kishnyova and VladislavLantratov - from Artists to Soloists.

Straight from Madrid (where on 7 September it opens the season at the Teatro Real) Bolshoi’s Onegin sets off for Lucerne – this time ‘traveling light’ – in the form of a concert performance.

The Bolshoi invites you to its Petrouchka first night

Bolshoi is to perform on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. Two performances of The Sleeping Beauty — will run on June 15, 16 and 17.

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT — ONE MORE ROLAND PETIT PREMIERE FOR THE BOLSHOI.

For the 18^th year in succession the authoritative Benois de la danse program has come up with its selection of the most outstanding creative achievements of the past season. The candidates of its choice will be awarded the Benois-2010 prize. This year there is an additional reason for rejoicing: whereas in 2009 the financial crisis made it impossible for the award-giving ceremony and the associated concerts to be held at the Bolshoi, this year the Benois is back as usual at the Theatre.

Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company soloist Dinara Alieva has won 3^rd prize at the annual Operalia World Opera Competition, founded and led by the famous singer and conductor, Placido Domingo. This year for the first time the Operalia was held in Milan. The final round took place on La Scala stage, the competitors being accompanied by the Theatre’s orchestra. Dinara Alieva, a young native of Baku, has had an extremely impressive career both professionally and in terms of her performance at competitions. This is the 6^th competition in her life. And at all of the contests which preceded it, she had an equal success.

Natalya Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev have been promoted to the rank of premier dancers, they learnt of this in Peking where, at the present time, they are on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet Company. The announcement of this official recognition of their services was made at the end of their performance in Don Quixote — their star turn ballet, which brought the house down in Peking.
The world recognition which has engulfed these two young dancers anticipated their ascent up the career ladder which, even so, was unprecedentedly rapid. In so far as concerns Ivan Vasiliev, he has been promoted straight from First Soloist to Principal Dancer, skipping the intervening rank.

The Bolshoi will be on tour in Peking from 24 April to 5 May.
Performances will take place at the National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera Hall which has a seating capacity for 2400. The Centre, which opened in 2007, is a contemporary architecture icon in the Chinese capital.

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most frequently performed plays in the world and that goes for the ballet version too. When it is long absent from the repertoire, both public and performers yearn for it. This spring the Bolshoi is presenting the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s famous ballet in a production by Yuri Grigorovich. The Maestro’s first Romeo at the Bolshoi was in 1979, but since then a lot of water has gone under the bridge. There has virtually been a complete turn-over in Company members and the new dancers are temperamental and ’technical’ in the new manner. We refer to this premiere as “a major revival” of the former production though, in effect, it amounts to a new version.

In honor of the great dancer there will be a performance of Giselle, in his version. The title role will be danced by Marianna Ryzhkina and Myrtha by Galina Stepanenko (debut). Both ballerinas were pupils of the late Yekaterina Maximova. The Bolshoi Theatre congratulates Vladimir Vasiliev on the Liberty prize which has just been presented to him in New York. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the development of Russian-American cultural relations. We also congratulate Mr Vasiliev on his forthcoming birthday (April 18).

Hallberg’s Bolshoi debut will be in Giselle. Natalia Osipova will dance the title role.

A briefing devoted to the upcoming premiere of ROMEO AND JULIET will be held on Sunday, April, 18 at 11 a.m.
In the briefing will take part choreographer Yuri Grigorovich and performers of the title roles.
Admittance via New Stage Entrance No. 14

Please, apply for accreditation in advance by fax + 7 495 692 33 67 or e-mail pr@bolshoi.ru

As Nikia.

Among the candidates for the title best female dancer 2009 is Bolshoi Theatre prima-ballerina, Maria Alexandrova.

The Bolshoi Orchestra and Chorus Season Ticket Concerts at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire continue with a concert performance of Verdi’s Otello. It forms part of the program for the Mstislav Rostropovich Week in Moscow Festival, to be held for the first time in the capital from 27 March to 2 April. The Festival has been organized on the personal initiative of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the Government of Moscow.

Bolshoi is to perform on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. Two performances of Don Quixote — will run on March 15 and 16.

This is the letter addressed to our site:
Just a note from an admirer. I saw Spartacus at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC USA on February 16th. Bravo! Perhaps the best choreographed and danced ballet I have ever seen. The leads and the Corps were excellent - perfection! You have more than lived up to the sterling reputation of the Bolshoi. Kudos to all and I think Ivan Vasiliev has the makings of a new ballet legend.
BillSchilling

Bolshoi Ballet welcomes a new dancer from January, 2010. Mikhail Lobukhin, Mariynsky Theatre Ballet leading soloist, joins as Principal.

appears as Nutcracker-Prince for the first time (beginning at 12 pm).

As the curtain descends on 2009, the Paris National Opera is to pay tribute at the Palais Garnier to Sergei Diaghilev’s ballet Saisons Russes, whose centenary has been celebrated this year throughout the world. From 12 up to and including 3l December there will be 12 performances of a Gala Evening with a concert programme which will include the hallmark ballets of the Diaghilev enterprise.
The 16 December Gala, called Hommage aux Ballets Russes, is a special occasion: on this evening, Opera de Paris Ballet Company etoiles will ’keep company’ with Bolshoi Ballet stars.

The Bolshoi Theatre is celebrating the jubilee of one of the greatest opera divas of the 2^nd half of the 20^th century — Yelena Obraztsova.

The second concert in the Bolshoi Theatre season ticket cycle at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire will be the joint performance of the Theatre’s Orchestra and Chorus with Vassily Sinaisky, one of the new Bolshoi conductors in residence.

At the request of Georg Nigl, the Bolshoi Theatre’s first Wozzeck, we convey a BIG THANKYOU to all the participants in the production: singers, musicians, chorus and mime ensemble members, and also to all those without whom it could not have taken place: dressers, stagehands and the Theatre’s technical services.

Alban Berg comes to the Bolshoi

The Association of German Record Critics honors the DVD recording of the Bolshoi Theatre Eugene Onegin with the "German Record Critics' Award" as a Recording of Exceptional Artistry and selects it as one of the "Quarterly Best" of New Releases for the Fourth Quarter 2009.

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Bolshoi is to perform on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. Two performances of Don Quixote — will run on November 5 and 6.

Anastasia Meskova и Victoria Osipova promoted from Artists to Soloists.

Ruslan Skvortsov is promoted from Leading Soloist to Principal; Yekaterina Krysanova - from First Soloist to Leading Soloist; Anna Antropova, Anna Nikulina, Vyacheslav Lopatin, Ivan Vasiliev are promoted from  Soloists to First Soloists; Anastasia Stashkevich, Yuri Baranov, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Artem Ovcharenko - from Artists to Soloists.

Maria Alexandrova’s Moscow debut as Nikia on 9 October, will be followed on 10 October by Ruslan Skvortsov’s debut as Solor, while on 11 October, it will be Natalia Osipova’s and Ivan Vasiliev’s turn to make their lst appearance in these two roles in La Bayadere at the Bolshoi.

The first Bolshoi Theatre subscription concert at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire once again brings together the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra (and chorus) and Maestro Alexander Lazarev.

At a Samsung Electronics press conference, heldin the atrium of the Bolshoi Theatre Auxiliary Wing, it was announced that to mark the Company's 18^th anniversary of partnership with the Bolshoi which falls this year, Samsung had been promoted to official Bolshoi Theatre sponsor. This rise in its sponsorship status is of course due to Samsung Electronics' active participation in the life of the Theatre. One of the Company's most notable sponsorship projects in recentyears, has been the technical renovation of the Bolshoi Theatre Music Library and naturally this project was at the centre of attention at the press conference.

Audemars Piguet, the famous Swiss watch manufacturer and jeweler are to join the ranks of Bolshoi Theatre sponsors.

It was all go at the opening of the Bolshoi’s 234^th season: never before had the press conference on the Theatre’s future plans (traditionally attracting a maximum number of journalists), the Company Assembly and the first performance of the new season, all taken place on the same day. And if one bears in mind that at the press conference the Theatre’s new music director was presented and plans were revealed not just for the forthcoming season, but also for the two following seasons there can be no doubt that in the field of ballet, opera and music the Bolshoi today has become a major newsmaker.

Enel and the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia signed an official partnership agreement in Moscow. With this partnership Enel further strengthens its commitment to support international projects in the field of art and culture.

The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company is to give two performances of Le Corsaire at the Lithuanian National Opera, Vilnius.

The New National Theatre Ballet Company (otherwise known as NNTB), part of Japan’s New National Theatre Tokyo (NNTT) performing arts center — see below, is setting off on the 2^nd foreign tour in its history. In Japan, the Russian school of classical ballet is greatly revered and one of the main bearers of its traditions is, of course, the Bolshoi Ballet. And the fact it is the Bolshoi Theatre who will be playing host to New National Theatre Ballet causes the Japanese dancers to prepare for the tour with particular care, all the more so as appearing with them will be Svetlana Zakharova — Bolshoi Theatre prima ballerina and, at the same time, NNTB principal guest artist.

After a 10-year interval, the Bolshoi is once again to tour in Spain.

Only just back from Milan, our Onegin is already awaited in Ljubljana.

From this date onwards, tickets may be booked by phone and online via the Bolshoi Theatre website.

From 2009/10 season onwards the Bolshoi Theatre will work on a regular basis with five outstanding conductors who represent the best of the Russian conducting school: Alexander Lazarev, Vassily Sinaisky, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko and Teodor Currentzis.

The DVD recording of the Bolshoi Theatre Eugene Onegin became Editor's choice of the British music magazine Classic FM.

After a twenty-year interval, the Bolshoi Opera Company is once again to appear at Milan’s La Scala, where it is to present perhaps the most popular of all Russian operas ЁC Eugene Onegin in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, a director who is already well-known in the West, including in Italy (Tcherniakov’s recent production of Prokofiev’s The Gambler at La Scala won the Franco Abbiati prize, Italy’s most prestigious musical award, established by the Italian Association of Music Critics)..