Bolshoi Ballet in cinema 2017-2018

The Bolshoi have released their cinema screening programme for the next season. Four are live broadcasts and four have already been transmitted. This is the 5th year that the Bolshoi has been broadcasting to cinemas.

The season's main event is the Russian premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's Romeo and Juliet. His Flames of Paris is also in the line-up.

Repertoire pieces are Le Corsaire, Coppélia and Giselle; Jean-Christophe Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew and John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias are more modern fare, and, of course, the Bolshoi's (dreadful) production of The Nutcracker will be rolled out at Christmas.

Bolshoi Ballet in cinema 2017-2018

Le Corsaire – 22 October 2017

The Taming of the Shrew – 26 November 2017

The Nutcracker – 17 December 2017

Romeo and Juliet – 21 January 2018

The Lady of the Camellias – 4 February 2018

Flames of Paris – 4 March 2018

Giselle – 8 April 2018

Coppélia – 10 June 2018

See also: Alastair Macaulay's A-G of Nutcracker rules!

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.