Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
2021Bolshoi 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: Coppélia
Raymonda: Bolshoi Ballet
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
This glorious three-act ballet (danced by outstanding members of the Bolshoi Ballet corps) boasts a magical score by Alexander Glazunov and is brimming with melody, stunning color and eye-popping effects. Starring Ludmila Semenyaka, Irek Moukhamedov and Gedeminas Taranda, the performance was filmed live at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
Raymonda: Bolshoi Ballet
The Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake
Vincent Bataillon
Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Rodkin
With Tchaikovskys famous and lyrically poignant score, the beloved masterpiece Swan Lakes depiction of tragic love is performed to perfection by the unparalleled virtuosity of Russias great Bolshoi Ballet with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Recorded in early 2015, this live performance provides an opportunity to see the modern manifestation of this legendary ballet troupe with lead ballerina Svetlana Zakharova along with Denis Rodkin and Artemy Belyakov among others introducing us to the new generation at the Bolshoi.
The Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake
Анна Каренина
Margarita Pilikhina
Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Godunov
The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life.
Anna Karenina
Bolshoi Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Vincent Bataillon
Andrei Sitnikov, Kristina Karasyova
In this resplendent and magical classic, the Bolshoi dancers - including David Hallberg in his Bolshoi debut - take us on a dream-like journey through this classic fairy tale complete with jewel fairies, a magical kingdom, a youthful princess and a handsome prince in this purest style of classical ballet. The Bolshoi’s sumptuous staging with its luxurious sets and costumes gives life to Perrault’s fairy tale unlike any other. This performance of Sleeping Beauty was filmed as a sort of celebration of the grand reopening of the Bolshoi Theater's Main Stage (it had been closed for several years for a refurbishment).
Bolshoi Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
The Tsar's Bride - Bolshoi
Stanislav Trofimov, Olga Seliverstova
The Tsar's Bride - an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on the drama by Lev Mey. This is a play about love - passionate, hot, searing and even burning everything around him. About the Russian soul, in the depths of which will always be a place for cleanliness, poetry, sacrifice and charity. At the same time, it is a play about the terrible years in the history of Russia, when the government was in a complete chaos, and the man became a helpless toy in its hands.
The Tsar's Bride - Bolshoi
Bolshoi Ballet: Coppélia
Isabelle Julien
Margarita Shrayner, Artem Ovcharenko
Swanhilda notices her fiancee Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppélia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson… The Bolshoi’s unique version of Coppélia exhibits a fascinating reconstruction of the original 19th century choreography of this ebullient comedy involving a feisty heroine, a boyish fiancee with a wandering eye, and an old dollmaker. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the divertissements and famous “dance of the hours,” and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humor in this effervescent production.
Bolshoi Ballet: Coppélia
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.
Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker
Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite / Petrushka
Isabelle Julien
Svetlana Zakharova, Denis Rodkin
Carmen: Impetuous Carmen seduces Don José in order to convince him to let her out of jail. Once outside, she thinks she’s finally free before realizing that she’s in fact prisoner of a love triangle: she wants to be with the famous Torero Escamillo, but she can’t make Don José go away. Petruska: At Saint-Petersburg’s carnival, three puppets are playing the same role over and over: the unhappy lover Petrushka, the coquette and a Moor. Fed up with this endless part that never goes well for him, Petrushka attacks his rival and flees from the puppets theater. Carmen Suite, staged by Alberto Alonso, is a one act ballet about a passionate, free-spirited woman caught in a love triangle. Stanislavsky’s Petrushka, choreographed by Edward Clug, encapsulates the story of a puppet that came to life, burdened by the human emotions of love, jealousy, and rage. Both stories envelop the characters which refuse to abide by the rules, to whom even the thought of submission is repulsive.
Bolshoi Ballet: Carmen Suite / Petrushka
Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions
Vladislav Lantratov, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Lucien, a young composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. His success soon blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his love. Lost Illusions is a new ballet created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgical advice from Guillaume Gallienne. This stylised adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel features thwarted love, ambition, and disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its backdrop.
Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions
Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
Vincent Bataillon
Svetlana Lunkina, Mikhail Lobukhin
During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina, and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.
Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
