BOLSHOI THEATRE

Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich after the novel of the same name by Raffaello Giovagnolli, ideas from the scenario by Nikolai Volkov used...

Opera in two acts...

This tragedy tells the story of two “star-cross'd lovers” from feuding families. During a party, Romeo and Juliet fall in love. They meet secretly until ...

This new production of Bournonville’s La Sylphide at the Bolshoi is by the Dane Johan Kobborg who is eminently qualified to do the job. He ...

A catastrophe has befallen the civilization of Earth. The Sun has hardly shone in many years. The new generation of survivors are trying to endure ...

Ballet in two acts Adults only...

With no news from her fiance Ruggiero, the valiant Bradamante has decided to search for him in the guise of her own brother Ricciardo, accompanied ...

Throughout the XX century Dostoevsky's philosophical and expressive prose - namely his major novel The Idiot - aroused keen interest among composers. Taking Dostoyevsky's novel ...

The heart is a flower blooming in the mystery of the night. A summer affair turns to winter chill when a country girl with tender ...

In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II ...

Book by Alexander Belinsky and Alexei Ratmansky on the basis of the original libretto by Nikolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev...

Billy Budd is based on a first class literary source – an unfinished story, Billy Budd, Foretopman by the American author Herman Melville, dated 1891. ...

Act I The Feldmarschallin’s bedroom. While her husband is away on duty, Princess von Werdenberg, known as the Feldmarschallin, has been having an affair with ...

Act I Soldiers keep watch over the town. Micaela is looking for Corporal Jose, but he is not in this particular platoon. The guard changes ...

Ballet Onegin, based on the famous verse novel by Pushkin, narrates the story of a bored Russian aristocrat who rejects the love of a young ...

Act I The peasants are singing to celebrate the marriage of the rich landowner Elvino to Amina, an orphan adopted by Teresa. In the general ...

The action takes place in XV century. Iolanta, the blind daughter of the King of Provence, is whiling away the time in the gar­den of ...

Act I A Scottish manor-house It is the morning of James’s marriage to Effie and he is asleep in his armchair. A winged figure, a ...

Once upon a time there was a Star-blazing Queen whose power had failed so much that her daughter, Pamina, was abducted by a powerful sorcerer ...

Act I A small, peaceful village, bathed in sunlight. It is inhabited by simple, artless people. Giselle, a young peasant girl, is re­joicing in the ...

Inspired by a visit to Van Cleef & Arpels, Balanchine distilled the brilliant facets of precious stones into a grand display. "Emeralds" moves at Fauré’s ...

Scene 1 Madame Larina. Her daughters: Tatiana, Olga. Nurse. Vladimir Lensky. Eugene Onegin. Neighbors, guests. The Larins’ home. Lensky, a neighbor of the Larins and ...

See Prince Igor only noble Warrior, caring only to defend Russia and acting purely out of good intentions is a bit not stick with what ...

Act I Following the death of his wife, Pyotr Leontievich, a school-teacher in a provincial town, is left with three children on his hands: a ...

The Child does not want to work at his lessons, all he wants to do are the things he is not allowed to do. When ...

Act I Nabucco, the king of Babylon, is at the gates of Jerusalem. High Priest Zaccaria, to instill courage into the faithful Jews, leads in ...

Act l Scene 1 In an old German castle, the birthday of Prince Siegfried is being celebrated; today he comes of age. He is congratulated ...

Act I Scene 1 A suburb of Marseilles, the town which gave its name to the French National anthem. Through the forest a large group ...

Act I The walls of the imperial palace. The square is full with a crowd which is listening to the Mandarin: Turandot, daughter of Altoum, ...

Scene 1 A crowd throngs by the high walls of the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. The boyar, Boris Godunov, has withdrawn to the monastery after ...

Act I Young warriors led by Solor are hunting a tiger. Before entering the forest Solor asks a fakir, named Magedaveya, to tell Nikia, a ...

Act I The bell-ringers proclaim young Ivan IV’s accession to the throne. The boyars are disgruntled by the fact, each claiming to have the ancestry ...