Anna Nikulina

Bolshoi Ballet: Coppélia

Vincent Bataillon

Natalia Osipova, Vyacheslav Lopatin

In this joyful version, a beautiful mechanical doll interferes with the happiness of two lovers. Original choreography by Marius Petita. New version by Sergei Vikharev. Music by Leo Delibes. Live performance 29 May 2011.

Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker

Vincent Bataillon

Anna Nikulina, Denis Rodkin

On Christmas Eve, Marie is given a wooden nutcracker as a gift. When the clock strikes midnight, the Nutcracker transforms into a prince and saves Marie from the Mouse King and his army. This beloved holiday classic will enchant the whole family with its fairytale setting and Tchaikovsky’s timeless score. This live version of The Nutcracker, created for the Bolshoi by Yuri Grigorovich, is full of romanticism and philosophical reflections on ideal love.

Лети, перышко

Anna Nikulina

The story of 36-year-old Albert, an experienced tire changer, who once sang in a dusty hangar on camera and suddenly became famous in Tik Tok. The film reveals the issue of illusory happiness by the example of the character’s fate. False and genuine values ​​is the main theme and motivation for the plot development and the plot includes an unhappy family and a dubious career, a son missing his father, and a father who is busy with his own affairs and has no time for the family.

Малыши

Anna Nikulina

This is a documentary about the similarities of old people and children and, for different reasons, how they see the world in the same way and believe in miracles. Each of these "children" needs love and attention.

Bolshoi Ballet: Raymonda

Vincent Bataillon

Maria Alexandrova, Ruslan Skvortsov

At the castle of Countess Sybil de Daurice, Raymonda is celebrating her birthday. She is also about to bid farewell to her fiancé, knight Jean de Brienne, who is going on a crusade. At night Raymonda falls asleep and dreams that she is taken to a magical garden where she is reunited with her fiancé. Suddenly, Jean de Brienne disappears and an Arab sheik takes his place and declares his passion for her. When she wakes, Raymonda discovers with horror that her nightmare has become reality… Live performance 24 Jun 2012

The Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

Vincent Bataillon

Anastasia Stashkevich, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in The Cage by Jerome Robbins, Harald Lander’s Études and Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons.

Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus

Mikhail Lobukhin, Anna Nikulina

The Bolshoi’s grandiose epic Spartacus recounts the story of a Roman slave’s fight for freedom. With its famous Khachaturian score, since the 1960s it has been considered one of the greatest ballets in the Bolshoi repertoire. The choreography by Yuri Grigorovich fills the Bolshoi stage with dynamic scenes of tension and conflict, and gives full expression to the virility and strength for which Russia’s male dancers are renowned.