Pavel Dmitrichenko, the Bolshoi dancer imprisoned on suspicion of instigating the acid attack against artistic director Sergei Filin, said he denied planning the assault during an audience in Moscow yesterday. He told the court that he’d told his ‘accomplice’ Yury Zarutsky, to hit Filin, but nothing more. I did not imagine that this person [Zarutsky]…
Tamara Rojo is at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as one of the judges for this year’s Benois de la danse, the ballet Oscars. Maria Sidelnikova from Kommersant took the opportunity to talk to her. She asked Rojo why she’d left the Royal Ballet. I’ve reached a point in my career, when I think it is important for…
Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has admitted organising the attack on director Sergei Filin in January, has said that one of his principal motives was that his partner Anzhelina Vorontsova was being passed over for the top roles. According to an inside source at the Bolshoi, we’ve heard that Vorontsova had been romantically involved with Felin in the past. The Times said,…
If you can get past the ‘special effects’ – and it’s worth it – this is a rare document of the seven movements of Kasyan Goleizovsky’s ballet Scriabiniana (to the music of… Scriabin) It was filmed in 1972 on the Bolshoi stage with Ekaterina Maximova and other members of the company. Scriabiniana (1972) Filmed at the Bolshoi…
La Scala ballet has become the first foreign company to perform on the renovated stage of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. On Thursday, La Scala ballet dancers stunned the Moscow public with the theatre’s signature ballet Excelsior, composed in 1881, says The Voice of Russia. The ballet, choreographed by Luigi Manzotti, shows the master’s understanding of technological progress….
Last night disco queen Gloria Gaynor performed at Crocus City Hall in Moscow. The 63-year-old singer talked to The Moscow Times: “It’s wonderful that I have become so popular in Russia in the last few years. I have performed for Russians in America, in Italy and in Germany. It’s a kind of love affair going…
Under the Romanovs, the theatre served as the backdrop to coronations of Russian tsars from Alexander II to Nikolai II. Though Lenin maneuvered to have the imperial symbol blown up in 1919, it was retained as a cultural icon and highlevel political meeting place, replacing the tsarist double-headed eagle above the stage with a hammer and sickle….
The new soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre ballet company, American David Hallberg, has started rehearsals in Russia. His début on the Bolshoi stage will be in Giselle on November 4. Sergei Filin, the head of the Bolshoi Ballet, who invited the 29-year-old American to Moscow, said in an interview for The Voice of Russia: I’d like to…
The jewelry from seven husbands. The wardrobe of a ’60s jet-setter. The memorabilia of a Hollywood icon, including a love poem by Bob Dylan that he scrawled on a framed publicity poster of himself and dedicated to “Elizabeth, Sweetheart, Dream angel, Queen-of-the world.” These are among more than 2,000 objects that belonged to Elizabeth Taylor…
“The word is out. I will be joining the Bolshoi as a premier, marking an important step in my career and the Bolshoi’s history. It has been and will be an unforgettable ride, full of challenges and hopefully triumphs as well. I am so thrilled and honored… upwards and onwards.”
Stars from the Hamburg Ballet are heading to Moscow for a Kremlin Gala show on September 17 and 18. Soloists will perform various pieces by John Neumeier, the artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet, who will be the special guest at the gala . Two leading soloists of the German troupe, Héléne Bouchet and Thiago Bordin, will…
On August 2nd the Bolshoi audience again saw the legendary ballerina and the founder of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Cuban National Ballet) Alicia Alonso. The gala concert at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on Tuesday was dedicated to her 90th birthday. The day before the gala Alonso said that she was very happy to…
Tucked away in a rehearsal room in London‘s Waterloo are two of the ballet world’s most exciting stars, Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova. They are rehearsing for their début in the Frederick Ashton version of Romeo and Juliet which will run for a week at the London Coliseum from July 11. They will dance at…
This week the Bolshoi Theatre‘s ‘New Stage’ will host the Paris Opera Ballet for a mixed programme, and next week they will present Preljocaj’s Le Parc. It is the first time the company has been in Moscow since the fall of communism. Lifar’s Suite en Blanc, Petit’s L’Arlesienne and Béjart’s Bolero form the triple bill. “Over the…
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