Paramount Center For The Arts Screens The Bolshoi Theatre Re-Opening Gala

The Paramount Center For The Arts will be showing The Bolshoi Theatre Re-Opening Gala on screen on Saturday, November 5th at 7:30 pm. The Bolshoi Grand Re-Opening Gala is a celebration of the theatre's renovation -- after six years and $750 million. During the evening, the Gala will recount through live music and dance performances, as well as video, the history of the Bolshoi Theatre since its opening in 1776. Following a live greeting by Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, the Gala broadcast of the live event will feature excerpts from such Russian masterpieces as Don Quixote, The Flames of Paris, The Bright Stream, Spartacus, and Swan Lake, as well as operatic singing performances by some of the world's most noted artists. Participating artists include:

Opera: Ballet:

Placido Domingo Natalia Osipova

Natalie Dessay Ivan Vasiliev

Dmitri Hvorostovsky Svetlana Zakharova

Violeta Urmana David Hallberg

Angela Gheorghiu

The Bolshoi Re-Opening Gala on screen at the Paramount Center for the Arts on Saturday, November 5th. Showtime is 7:30 pm. The theatre is located at 1008 Brown Street in Peekskill. Tickets are $16.00 for Members, $20.00 General Public (Future Members). Tickets can be purchased prior to show time at the Paramount Box Office.

ABOUT THE BOLSHOI RE-OPENING GALA:

Program Highlights include:

The Sleeping Beauty, a special re-staging of the garland waltz by Alexey Ratmansky, with music by Pytor Illich Tchaikovsky.

Ivan Susanin, the polonaise from Mikhail Glinka's opera, known in the West as "A Life for the Tsar," performed by the Bolshoi Orchestra.

Spartacus, performance of the ballet's Act II opening scene, "the Appian Way," with music by Aram Khachaturian and choreography by former director and chief choreographer of the Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Grigorovich.

Betrothal in a Monastery, an excerpt from this opera by Sergei Prokofiev, which premiered in 1964 in St. Petersburg at the Kirov Theatre.

The Flames of Paris, the ballet's folk-like "Basque dance" with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and music by Boris Asafiev.

Iolanta, singers of the Bolshoi Opera will perform an excerpt of Tchaikovsky's one-act opera which is rarely seen or heard in the West. The opera served as an opening to the premiere of Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker, in St. Petersburg.

Prince Igor, the Bolshoi Opera performs the famous "Polovetsian Dances" scene from this opera by A. Borodin.