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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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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.
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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).