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Bolshoi Theatre


The Bolshoi Theatre () is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre ("Small Theatre") in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg (Hermitage Theatre, Bolshoi (Kamenny) Theatre, later Mariinsky Theatre and others). The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world
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Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg


The Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre (The Big Stone Theatre of Saint Petersburg, ) was a theatre in Saint Petersburg. It was built in 1783 to Antonio Rinaldi's Neoclassical design as the Kamenny (i.e., Stone) Theatre; Giovanni Paisiello’s opera "Il mondo della luna" was performed at the opening on 24 September. It was rebuilt in 1802 according to the designs of the architect Thomas de Thomon and renamed the Bolshoi, but burned down in 1811. The building was restored in 1818, and modified between
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Bolshoi Theatre


between 1821 and 1824, designed and supervised to completion by architect Joseph Bové based upon an initial competition-winning design created by Petersburg-based Russian architect Andrei Mikhailov that was deemed too costly to complete. Bové also concurrently designed the nearby Maly Theatre and the surrounding Theater Square, The new building opened on 18 January 1825 as the Bolshoi Petrovsky Theatre with a performance of Fernando Sor's ballet, "Cendrillon". Initially, it presented only Russian works, but foreign composers entered the repertoire around 1840. In 1843 a large
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Mariinsky Theatre


Russian word for "stone") and "Bolshoi" (Russian word for "big") were coined to distinguish it from the wooden Little Theatre. In 1836, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was renovated to a design by Albert Cavos (son of Catterino Cavos, an opera composer), and served as the principal theatre of the Imperial Ballet and opera. On 29 January 1849, the Equestrian circus (Конный цирк) opened on Theatre Square. This was also the work of the architect Cavos. The building was designed
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director prompted the inspection of the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre by architects who found the building to be unsafe. Rather than spend millions of roubles on renovations, the director ordered that both the ballet and opera companies be relocated to the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, much to the chagrin of the orchestra and opera singers who found the theatre's acoustics to be weaker. In honor of the relocation to the new theatre, a lavish gala performance was planned for February 1886, which included the Petipa/Minkus work "Les Pilules
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Catterino Cavos


by Mozart, "La clemenza di Tito". This was a great honor, as only a handful of singers had multiple operatic roles written expressly for them by Mozart. Cavos and Camilla's eldest son, Albert Catterinovich ""Alberto"" Cavos (1800-1863), was an architect best known for his theatre designs, having built Russia's two most iconic theatres, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (1859–1860) and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (1853–1856). Albert's daughter Camilla married Nicholas Benois,
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Theatre. Many of the great 19th century ballets of Marius Petipa and Arthur Saint-Léon were given for the first time on the stage of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. In 1886 the building was declared unsafe and, at the behest of the theatre director Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the ballet and opera performances moved to the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, where they have remained ever since. The Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was then torn down to make place for the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The only surviving sections of the original theatre are the grand staircase
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National Theatre, Singapore


into a more “cultured” image, and several initiatives were launched by the National Theatre Trust (NTT). For instance, it later proposed to promote professional shows “like the Georgia State Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet”. AWP Pte Ltd were the Architects of the building. The most significant feature of the National Theatre was its huge 150-tonne cantilevered steel roof which stretched to the slopes of Fort Canning; a five-pointed facade which represented the five stars of the Singapore flag in the same way as its outdoor fountain
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Alberto Cavos


Alberto Cavos (Russified to Albert Katerinovich Kavos, , December 22, 1800 – May 22, 1863) was a Russian–Italian architect best known for his theatre designs, the builder of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg (1859–1860) and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (1853–1856). Alberto Cavos was born in Saint Petersburg to Venetian opera composer Catterino Cavos (see Cavos family), and his wife, Camilla Baglioni, who had settled in Russia in 1798, after the fall of the Republic of Venice. Alberto Cavos
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theatre.The Czar further orders that the Architect preserve the interior decoration as it used to be". Cavos retained the Romanesque facade of the Circus, but completely redesigned the interiors, replacing the old circular arena with a horseshoe-shapes "Italian" opera hall. The new theatre opened in October 1860 as Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, named after Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and immediately became Saint Petersburg's principal opera stage. On March 11, 1853, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow was destroyed by fire that left only exterior wall standing.
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. It is by far the world's biggest ballet company, with more than 200 dancers. The theatre is the parent company of The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, a world-famous leading school of ballet. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Theater School in Joinville, Brazil. The main building of the theatre, rebuilt and renovated several times during its history, is a landmark of Moscow and Russia (its iconic neoclassical façade is depicted on the Russian 100-ruble banknote). On 28 October 2011, the Bolshoi re-opened
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, on the top of the façade, the double-headed eagle of the original Russian coat of arms was installed in the place where the Soviet hammer and sickle had been mounted for decades. Finally, on 28 October 2011, the Bolshoi Theatre re-opened with a concert featuring international artists and the ballet and opera companies. The first staged opera, Ruslan and Lyudmila, followed soon after. The Bolshoi has been the site of many historic premieres, including: The Bolshoi is a repertory theatre, meaning that it draws
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Elchin Azizov


"Carmen" (Galina Vishnevskaya's Opera Centre, Bolshoi Theatre), the title role in "Eugene Onegin" (Galina Vishnevskaya's Opera Centre, Bolshoi Theatre, and Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg), Ibn-Hakia in "Iolanta", Tomsky in "The Queen of Spades", Leandro in "Love for Three Oranges", and Doctor Falke in "Die Fledermaus" (all at the Bolshoi Theatre). Azizov is the winner of the 2nd Prize of The International Opera Singers Contest of Galina Vishnevskaya (
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Badri Maisuradze


Badri Maisuradze () (born on November 13, 1966) is a Georgian tenor opera singer, a leading dramatic tenor of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatoire in 1989, after which he became a probationer at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 1990-1993, he was a soloist at Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1995, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre. From 2016 he is leading Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theatre aT Tbilisi. In
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Wang Theatre


Blackall, with the assistance of Detroit theatre architect C. Howard Crane. It seats more than 3,600 people. In 1962 it became the home of the Boston Ballet and was renamed the Music Hall. During the 1960s and 1970s, audiences could see the Stuttgart Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Bolshoi Ballet and Kirov Ballet as well as popular movies and performing artists. With time though, they could no longer attract the large touring companies because of the size of their stage as well as their outdated production facilities. Converted to a non
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year after returning, on 11 October 1907, he married his cousin Tatyana Evert, the second ballerina of the Bolshoi theatre in the Znamenskaya Church in Dubrovitsy. He began to work in a theatre called "Folk House" on Novoslodskaya Road in Moscow, which staged classic operas for the education of the masses. Gradually he became known in theatrical circles: he worked at the Korsha Theatre, the Moscow operetta and the Bolshoi theatre and designed more than 300 sets. For the hall of the Moscow Conservatory in the Bolshoi, Sokolov
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-scale reconstruction of the theatre took place using a design by A. Nikitin, but a fire in 1853 caused extensive damage and so a further reconstruction was carried out, by Alberto Cavos, son of the opera composer Catterino Cavos. On 20 August 1856, the Bolshoi Theatre reopened. Other repairs of the building took place in 1896. On 7 December 1919 the house was renamed the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre. Only a few days later, however, on 12 December, there was an unsuccessful attempt to shut the institution entirely
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Anatoly Iksanov


Anatoly Gennadyevich Iksanov (; February 18, 1952 in Leningrad, Russia) was the General Director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia between 2000 and July 2013. His successor was Vladimir Urin. In 1977, he graduated with a degree in theatre from the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography. A year after graduating from the Institute he worked as the chief administrator of the Maly Theatre in Moscow. From 1996 to 1998, he was Director of the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. Ten years after becoming General Director of the Bolshoi
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. Simultaneously he studied classical ballet in choreographic Studio of the Bolshoi theatre. In 1972 he has won the competition of the International Union of architects and received the prize of UNESCO. Till 1977 worked as an architect in Mosproject-1. In 1977 has organized the private Studio (the First Studio), which soon became known as the EDAS - Experimental Children's Architectural Studio. In 1993 he became a laureate of the State prize of the Russian Federation "For works of School-Studio EDAS as the implementation of a unique author's
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Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer)


dancing and in the 1925 she was admitted to the Bolshoi Choreographic School. She appeared for the first time on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre at the age of ten as one of the little birds in the ballet "The Daughter of the Snows". In 1932 she played the "Sugar Plum Fairy" in "The Nutcracker" ballet. Lepeshinskaya graduated from Bolshoi Choreographic School and started working the Bolshoi Theatre. She started as Rosina in a ballet of "The Barber of Seville" ("Тщетная предосторожность") performed
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foundations underneath, placed in the bend of subterranean Neglinnaya River, were shifting erratically since 19th century. By the end of the 20th century, salvaging Bolshoi required a complete replacement of foundations. In 1859 Cavos completed the rebuilding of Mikhaylovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The architect's last work was a competition entry for the design of the Paris opera; according to Alexander Benois, his drafts were approved by Napoleon III of France but when Cavos died, at Peterhof, the job was awarded to Charles Garnier. Apart from theatres,
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VTB Bank


million. VTB is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Bolshoi Theatre, and the non-profit organisation The Bolshoi Theatre Foundation that was established in 2002. VTB has supported many of the premieres at the Bolshoi, including The Lady with the Camellias, Ivan the Terrible, Onegin, The Sleeping Beauty, The Snow Maiden, Romeo and Juliet, The Legend of Love, Manon Lescaut and others. Since 2006, VTB has been the general partner of the Mariinsky Theatre. Since 2002, VTB has been the general
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Ivan Korzhev


", "Yemelyan Pugachev", «Ida Rubinstein", "Marcus Aurelius", "Boethius Severin", "Nikolay Novikov etc. In 2011 Ivan Korzhev's sculptures of ancient muses Erato and Terpsichore for the central façade of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (Bolshoi Theatre) capped a long-term work on the restoration of the main cultural attraction of the Russian capital. Sculptures by Ivan Korzhev replaced the earlier art works of P.Klodt and M. Rukavishnikov, which had decorated two central exedras of the Bolshoi Theatre.
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have been heard more frequently on the Bolshoi stage in recent years. Some operas, such as Borodin's "Prince Igor", include extensive ballet sequences. Many productions, especially of classic Russian opera, are performed on a grand scale, with dozens of costumed singers and dancers on stage for crowd or festival scenes. The orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre is a virtuoso ensemble in its own right. It gives occasional concerts of symphonic music in the theatre and elsewhere, and has made recordings. Over the decades, it has
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toured overseas as the "Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra," the "Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra" and, most recently, as the "Bolshoi Orchestra." Music director and chief conductor, Vassily Sinaisky, quit abruptly at the start of December 2013, after a 41-month tenure, citing the need to avoid conflict. General director Vladimir Urin promptly accepted his resignation and selected Tugan Sokhiev as replacement. Sokhiev's four-year contract, settled on 20 January 2014 and became effective immediately. The new chief also holds conductorships in Toulouse and Berlin
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Bolshoi Ballet


The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies. It only achieved worldwide acclaim, however, in the early 20th century when Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia. Along with the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg, the Bolshoi is recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. The earliest origins of the Bolshoi Ballet can be found in the creation of a dance school for
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entertainment. Ouroussoff set up the theatre in collaboration with English tightrope walker Michael Maddox. Initially, it held performances in a private home, but it acquired the Petrovka Theatre and on 30 December 1780, it began producing plays and operas, thus establishing what would become the Bolshoi Theatre. Fire destroyed the Petrovka Theatre on 8 October 1805, and the New Arbat Imperial Theatre replaced it on 13 April 1808, however it also succumbed to fire during the French invasion of Moscow in 1812. The first instance of the theatre was built
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Vasili Vainonen


a puppet show staged by Drosselmeyer during the Christmas Party scene. The puppet show foreshadows the later fantasy scenes by having a Prince, a Princess, and a Mouse King as characters. He later did new versions of the classical ballets: Raymonda (1938, Kirov Theatre), Harlequinade (1945, Minsk Theatre), The Sleeping Beauty (1952, Novosibirsk Theatre). His other ballets: Vasilenko's Mirandolina (1949, Bolshoi Theatre; 1965, Navoy Theatre, Tashkent), Gayane (1957, Bolshoi Theatre),
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Mariinsky Theatre


The Imperial Mariinsky Theatre and its predecessor, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, hosted the premieres of many of the operas of Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. At the behest of the theatre director Ivan Vsevolozhsky, both the Imperial Ballet (ballet arrived at the Mariinsky theater in 1870) and the Imperial Opera were relocated to the Mariinsky Theatre in 1886, as the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was considered unsafe. It was there that the renowned choreographer Marius Petipa presented many of his masterpieces, including such staples of the ballet
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. Corporate sponsorship occurs for some productions, but state funding is still the lifeblood of the company. The Bolshoi has been associated from its beginnings with ballet. Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiered at the theatre on 4 March 1877. Other staples of the Bolshoi repertoire include Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker", Adam's "Giselle", Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet", and Khachaturian's "Spartacus". The chief ballet conductor from 1923 to 1963 was Yuri Fayer. After
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replaced by the Bolshoi Theatre on the same site. "a. Petrovsky Theatre, including the extension which contained a rotunda." "b. Interior of Rotunda/Masquerade hall." "c. Interior of Theatre/Opera house" "d. Relative size and situation of Petrovsky theatre and Bolshoi." "e. Plan of 2nd floor with rotunda and theatre." The Maddox troupe delivered 425 performances of drama, ballet and opera during this time. These included more than 100 different operas, mainly of the comic opera/"opéra comique" type
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Nomeda Kazlaus


, Barcelona, Spain); Desdemona in Otello (sang with Ian Storey, Pergola Opera Festival, Wroclaw, Poland); Sieglinde (cover) in Die Walkure (conductor Valery Gergiev, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia); Ortlinde in Die Walkure (conductor Valery Gergiev, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia); Marina Mnishek in Boris Godunov (Kazan Opera and Ballet Theatre, Russia); Carmen in Carmen (Kosice Opera Theatre, Slovakia); Eboli in Don Carlo (Lithuanian Lithuanian National Opera Theatre); Preziosilla
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Venera Gimadieva


the direction of Yuri Alexandrov. She performed her first major roles as Lucia in Lucia Di Lammermoor, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucrecia in The Rape of Lucrecia. In 2009 Venera was invited to be part of the Young Artist Programme at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Venera Gimadieva joined the Bolshoi theatre as a soloist in 2011. Her roles at the Bolshoi have included Gilda "Rigoletto," Marfa "The Tsar’s Bride," Ksenia "Boris Godunov," Amina in a new production of "La Sonnambula", Violetta
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valued ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre. She was Artistic Director and one of the principal dancers of the Moscow Art Ballet. Soon after Stanislavsky's death, Nemirovich-Danchenko took charge of all the companies (Vsevolod Meyerhold invited by Stanislavsky to work for his theatre, was arrested in 1939, and no other stage director could prove equal to Nemirovich-Danchenko). Then the theatre was given its present name. In 1918 Stanislavski founded an Opera Studio under the auspices of the Bolshoi Theatre, though it later severed its connection with
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. Beethoven Hall opened on 18 February 1921. Ivan Rerberg directed further reconstruction of the theatre between 1921 and 1923. A bomb damaged the structure during World War II, but this was promptly repaired. A new stage for the Bolshoi Theatre, called the New Stage, went into service on 29 November 2002, constructed to the left of the theatre's historic main stage. Together with auxiliary buildings — a restored 17th-century building, two rehearsal halls, and artists' recreation rooms — it forms a single theatre complex,
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from a list of productions, any one of which may be performed on a given evening. It normally introduces two to four new ballet or opera productions each season and puts a similar number on hold. The sets and costumes for most productions are made in the Bolshoi's own workshops. The performers are drawn primarily from the Bolshoi's regular ballet and opera companies, with occasional guest performances. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there have been a few attempts to reduce the theatre's traditional dependence on large state subsidies
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Le Corsaire


of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (today known as the Bolshoi Ballet), who continued performing the ballet with some regularity for many years in various revivals. In 1888 Petipa supervised the creation of a new production of "Le Corsaire" for the company, which premiered to a resounding success. Petipa was a leading choreographer of the time in Russia. In 1894 the Bolshoi Theatre's newly appointed Ballet Master Ivan Clustine mounted his staging of "Le Corsaire", which premiered on . Petipa would later allege that Clustine's production
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Ludwig Minkus


the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, and soon he was given the dual position of conductor and principal violinist to the Imperial Italian Opera of that theatre. In 1861 Minkus was appointed as Concertmaster to the Bolshoi Theatre, and by 1864 he was promoted to the prestigious position of "Inspector of the Imperial Theatre Orchestras" in Moscow. At this time Minkus was also working as professor of violin at the newly established Moscow Conservatory. It was for the private performances at the Yusupov palace that Minkus composed what appears to be his first score
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Arina Sobakina


Moscow, was Arina Sobakina.By that time, a public theatre had also appeared in Moscow. In 1780 it was opened on Petrovka Street by Michael Medoks, an English businessman and engineer. It was named the Bolshoi Petrovsky Theatre (from which today's Bolshoi Theatre originated). Arina Sobakina also moved to the theatre. French and Italian artists worked there as choreographers and directors, but the ballet company was mainly composed of Russian artists, the graduates of the orphanage, where they were specially trained. The repertoire of the
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Maya Plisetskaya


; both of these were principal dancers of the Bolshoi. Plisetskaya studied ballet at The Bolshoi Ballet School from age nine, and she first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre when she was eleven. She studied ballet under the direction of Elizaveta Gerdt and also her aunt, Sulamith Messerer. Graduating in 1943 at the age of eighteen, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet company, quickly rising to become their leading soloist. In 1959, during the Thaw Time, she started to tour outside the country with the Bolshoi, then on her own
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Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg


1826 and 1836 by Alberto Cavos to accommodate more modern machinery. Until 1886, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was principal theatre for both the Imperial Ballet and the Imperial Russian Opera. It was there that the first Russian operas — Glinka's "A Life for the Tsar" and "Ruslan and Lyudmila" — were premiered. Although the theatre would include many of the great Russian operas in its repertory, many of the works of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their world premieres on the stage of the Imperial Mariinsky
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Alberto Cavos


to his descendants from the Benois family. Henry Sutherland Edwards, contemporary British journalist, praised Cavos as being "not only an architect, but also an "acoustician", if we may use the term ... he understands what does not appear to be understood in London...". According to Edwards, Cavos ridiculed the idea that acoustical properties of a building cannot be ensured by design; he deliberately designed, built and outfitted his theatres for sound. "It (the Bolshoi) is constructed as a musical instrument"
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Russian opera


Bolshoi Theatre (opened since 1825 Moscow), and Mariinsky Theatre, opened since 1860 Saint Petersburg). The history of 19th century Russian opera could be observed in the selected list of premieres at the Saint Petersburg theatres: Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre Mariinsky Theatre (since 1860) Mamontov's Private Russian Opera established in 1885. Savva Mamontov discovered talent of Chaliapin, commissioned designs from Mikhail Vrubel, Konstantin Korovin, Natalia Goncharova and Ivan Bilibin, staged the late operas by Rimsky Korsakov. Opera spread to the provincial centres of Kiev (1867
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Māris Liepa


part of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, and after four seasons he became one of the lead artists. Māris Liepa was invited to become a part of Moscow State Academic Bolshoi Theatre troupe that toured Poland, and shortly after this tour Liepa was offered a place in the company by the Theatre's Ballet Master Leonid Lavrovsky. Liepa's debut on the stage of the Moscow State Academic Bolshoi Theatre saw him perform Basil in "Don Quixote", again with Maya Plisetskaya in the early 1960s, and shortly
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Nina Kirsanova


1919 she finished her education in Moscow and the same year married Boris Popov, an opera soloist at The Bolshoi Theatre. Under his influence, she applied for and passed an audition at The Bolshoi Theatre. She never had a chance to perform on the stage of the famous theatre since she fled with her husband to Poland in 1920, and then from there to Serbia in 1923. Upon her arrival in Belgrade her talent didn't go unnoticed, and soon she became a member of The Manjež Theatre, and then the National
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Robert Seppings


Sir Robert Seppings, FRS (11 December 176725 April 1840) was an English naval architect. Seppings was born to Robert and Lydia Seppings at Fakenham, Norfolk, on 11 December 1767 and baptised three days later. In 1782 he was apprenticed in HMNB Devonport, Plymouth. In 1800, when he had risen to be master shipwright assistant in the yard, he invented a device which greatly reduced the time required to repair the lower portions of ships in dry dock when compared with the laborious process of lifting then in vogue.
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a Moscow orphanage in 1773. In 1776, dancers from the school were employed by Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Ouroussoff and the English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox, to form part of their new theatre company. Originally performing in privately owned venues, they later acquired the Petrovsky Theatre, which, as a result of fires and erratic redevelopment, would later be rebuilt as today's Bolshoi Theatre. While some guest dancers come and go from other very prestigious ballet companies—like the Mariinsky and American Ballet Theatre—many company dancers are graduates of
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Bolshoy Ice Dome


LED-illuminated roof, which its designers described as resembling fabergé eggs and frozen water droplets The arena was named "Bolshoy", meaning "big", "large" and "huge" in Russian. This highlights the integral role of ice hockey at the Olympics, which has been dubbed "the most popular sport" of the Games by the organizers themselves. Furthermore, the name was chosen due to its universal familiarity in other countries, in addition to its allusion to the Bolshoi Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, and other
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the death of Joseph Stalin, the company toured internationally and became an important source of cultural prestige, as well as foreign currency earnings. As a result, the "Bolshoi Ballet" became a well-known name in the West. However, the Bolshoi suffered from losses through a series of defections of its dancers. The first occurrence was on 23 August 1979, with Alexander Godunov; followed by Leonid Kozlov and Valentina Kozlova on 16 September 1979; and other cases in the following years. Bolshoi continues to tour regularly with
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Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater


Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (; literally "Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater"), formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater () (1931–1992), often referred to as the Bolshoi Drama Theater and by the acronym BDT (), is a theater in Saint Petersburg, that is considered one of the best Russian theaters. The theater is named after its long-time director Georgy Tovstonogov. Since 2013, Andrey Moguchy is the artistic director of the theatre. The theater is also encountered in literature as the "Great Drama Theater"
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Charles Dillingham (managing director)


Charles Dillingham was the Managing Director of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles from 1991 through, June 30, 2011. Prior to CTG, he was CEO of The Entertainment Corporation USA, presenting the Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Opera, Kirov Ballet, Kirov Opera and Royal Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House and on U.S. tours. He was executive director of American Ballet Theatre when Mikhail Baryshnikov was artistic director, managing director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company, general manager of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and general
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Maly Theatre (Moscow)


and Ivan Samarin. The smaller stage in Vargin House (Maly) opened October 14, 1824 with Alexey Verstovsky's "Lily of Narbonne." The larger Bolshoy opened on January 6, 1825. The name "Maly" (small) emerged in the same year, and referred specifically to the building and not the company. Bolshoy and Maly theatres were run as a single company (Imperial Moscow Theatre), sharing an orchestra, choir, ballet, and even props. Standard weekly programs for Maly in 1825 included three
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Ivan Kozlovsky


band. He made his operatic début in 1920 as "Faust" at the Poltava theatre, where he sang until 1923. He followed this with engagements at the Kharkiv opera in 1923-4, and the Yekaterinburg (then called Sverdlovsk) opera theatre in 1924-6, before becoming one of the leading tenors at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1926 to 1954. He had a memorable audition at the Bolshoi in 1924, reportedly reaching the highest notes of the register with ease (throughout his career, he developed a
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Natalia Ermolenko-Yuzhina


She remained at the Mariinsky until 1905, when she joined the Bolshoi Theatre, performing there until 1906. While performing at the Bolshoi, she met her husband, opera singer David Kristoforovich Yuzhin. Ermolenko-Yuzhina and her husband left the Bolshoi in 1908, and joined Sergei Zimin's opera company, remaining for two seasons. In 1910, Ermolenko-Yuzhina returned to the Mariinsky, where she performed from 1910 to 1913, and again, from 1915 to 1920. She performed at the Bolshoi in 1913, 1916, and
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Anastasia Volochkova


the Bolshoi Theatre, for which Volochkova was awarded the prestigious Prix Benois de la Danse in 2002. In the same year, she was also awarded with the title of Honoured Artist of Russia. After various disagreements with the Bolshoi Ballet over the years, Volochkova's contract was terminated in 2003. It became a major news story worldwide as it was reported that the Bolshoi Ballet had dismissed her for being too tall and heavy. A Moscow court ruled that the Bolshoi Ballet had to reinstate Volochskova immediately and awarded her thousands of US
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Bolshoi Babylon


Bolshoi Babylon is a 2015 British documentary film directed by Nick Read. It is about the history of Russia's Bolshoi Theatre, including Pavel Dmitrichenko's 2013 acid attack on Sergei Filin. It premiered on 14 September at the Toronto International Film Festival. "Bolshoi Babylon" premiered on 14 September 2015 at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the US, it was theatrically released on 27 November 2015, after which it aired on the pay television station HBO on 21 December 2015. It was released 8 January 2016 in the UK
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Wednesday Theatre


production, by Ron Callanderbr 35. "Almost a Honeymoon" (aired 31 Aug. 1966). Previously aired in the UKbr 36. "The Stag "(aired 7 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 37. "The Interior Decorator" (aired 14 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 38. "A Crack in the Ice" (aired 21 Sep. 1966). By Ronald Eyrebr 39. "Hamlet" (aired 28 Sep. 1966) British production, starring Laurence Olivier.br 40. "Flight into
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Bolshoi Theatre


the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. The new building is on a natural hill which it shared, until recently, blocks of old houses with communal apartments. From July 2005 to October 2011 the theatre was closed for restoration. It had undergone many renovations in its time, but none as extensive. The building, whose architecture combines three different styles, was damaged and a quick renovation seemed to be necessary. Repairs were initially estimated at 15 billion rubles ($610 million) but engineers found that more than 75% of the
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Russian opera


operas written in Russia are also: "Gli amanti consolati" (1784 Saint Petersburg), "I finti eredi" (1785 Saint Petersburg, Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre), "Castore e Polluce" (1786 Hermitage Theatre) and "La famille indienne en Angleterre" (1799 Saint Petersburg, Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre). Domenico Cimarosa, (1749–1801) another famous Neapolitan composer, singer, violinist, harpsichordist, conductor ant teacher, who composed about 75 operas, was a "maestro di cappella" in Russia for five years
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Jean-François Thomas de Thomon


revolutionary ideas. Thomas de Thomon sneaked into the country through Hamburg and Riga, assuming a persona of a Swiss citizen, native of Berne. Thomas de Thomon initially worked for the Golytsins in their country residences and later relocated to Saint Petersburg; on January 30, 1802 he was hired by the Imperial government to rebuild Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. The project that started as a modest refit soon expanded into a full-scale rebuild to Thomon's own draft. It was structurally completed in one year; Thomas de Thomon remained its architect
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Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer)


lasted for 50 years, until Ekaterina Maximova died in 2009. They had no children. In March 1995 Vladimir Vasiliev was appointed the General and Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre after Yury Grigorovich, artistic director of the ballet company since 1963, was dismissed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Among the major projects Vasiliev has spearheaded there were such as the large scale exchange of Bolshoi and Mariinsky Ballet companies in 1998, of the Bolshoi and Paris Opera Ballet to be held, first-ever New Year Ball in the Bolshoi on December
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Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)


at the Bolshoi Kamenniy Teatr. The initial lack of enthusiasm for this Russian-inspired production has been attributed to the St. Petersburg's audience's growing taste at the time for Italian opera, which was so pronounced that in 1843, Tsar Nicholas I established an Italian opera company in the Bolshoi Kamenniy Teatr, and the Russian opera company lost its home. Four years later, the opera was given its Moscow premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1846. The opera has been a mainstay of the Bolshoi, having staged over 700 performances
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Yuri Fayer


He worked at the opera house in Riga and formed his own touring orchestra, before returning to Moscow in 1914 and re-entering the Conservatory, while also playing violin at the Bolshoi Theatre. His earlier experience as a conductor stood him in good stead, and before long he was asked to conduct at the Bolshoi, where he became an institution. In 1923 he became chief ballet conductor at the Bolshoi, a post he retained for 40 years, until 1963. On Christmas Eve 1925, he conducted the Bolshoi orchestra in
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Sergei Rozanov


Sergei Vasilievich Rozanov (1870–1937) was a Russian clarinetist and teacher, considered to be the founder of modern Russian clarinet school. In 1886, he entered Moscow Conservatory, where his teacher was Franz Zimmermann (1818–1891), solo clarinet of Bolshoi theatre. After graduating in 1890, Rozanov began his career as an orchestral musician in different opera theatres of Moscow. In 1894 he was engaged as a second clarinet in Bolshoi theatre, and three years later became the solo clarinet. He kept this place up to 1929. Rozanov also
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Hans-Joachim Frey


working in Bremen Frey staged for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of 2010, the opera gala. At the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre took place in September 2011, the international singing competition Competizione dell 'Opera under Frey's line instead. Thus, this song competition was first held outside of Germany. This competition was then in 2012 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Minsk / Belarus instead. At the Boris Pokrovsky Moscow Chamber Opera he has 2011 opera "Zar und Zimmermann" first fully staged in Russia
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Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater


Antigone" by Jean Anouilh (1996), and "Boris Godunov" by Alexander Pushkin (1998). In 2005, Kamenny Island Theatre became a new stage of the Bolshoi Drama. On 27 April 2007, Kirill Lavrov died and Temur Chkheidze was elected as the artistic director of BDT. Under Chkheidze, the theatre continued its classical tradition, while some observers noted signs of artistic stagnation, as the theatre was trying to prolong Tovstonogov aesthetics, while the master has long passed away. Temur Chkheidze has announced that his resignation
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Ippolit Al'tani


of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Al'tani had a significant association with Tchaikovsky. He conducted the first performance of the "1812 Overture" (1882) and the first performances at the Bolshoi Theatre of his operas "Mazeppa" (1884), "The Enchantress" (1890), "The Queen of Spades" (1891) and "Iolanta" (1893). Al'tani also conducted the 1888 Moscow premiere of the revised 1872 version of Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov", and the world premiere of Rachmaninoff's "
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Wednesday Theatre


1967)br 26. Untitled documentary on Australian ballet with Robert Helpmann (aired 16 Aug. 1967)br 27. "Illyria" / "Elektra"* [double bill: two ballets] (aired 23 Aug. 1967)br 28. "A Ride on the Big Dipper"* (aired 30 Aug. 1967)br [Note: no episode aired on 6 Sep. 1967]br [29. Episode not traced] (aired 13 Sep. 1967)br [30. Episode not traced] (aired 20 Sep. 1967)br [31. Episode not traced] (aired 27 Sep. 1967)br
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Sep Ruf


Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) was a German architect and designer, belonging to the Bauhaus group. He was one of the representatives of modern architecture in Germany after World War II. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the Expo 58 in Brussels, built together with Egon Eiermann, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who
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Alberto Cavos


, commented Cavos. Modern architects add a sober note: despite excellent acoustics, the Bolshoi suffered from poor build quality and poor planning of its public areas. The former may be in part blamed on local contractors, 16-month rush schedule and a modest budget of 900,000 roubles. Ivan Rerberg, who restored Bolshoi in 1920–1932, bitterly commented on the architect's decision to close and fill with earth the original groundfloor galleries that housed cloakrooms before the 1853 fire. Large spans of load-bearing brick walls were laid without mortar; weak
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Svetlana Kasyan


Bolshoi Theatre. In 2010 she debuted on the Bolshoi Theatre stage in the Kupava party in “The Snow Maiden” opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, and later performed there in “The Love for Three Oranges” by S. Prokofiev and “The Enchantress” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In 2011 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with a degree in solo singing. In the same year, she won the first prize of the Fifth International Vocal Competition in Ningbo City. In 2011, she performed the title role in the opera Tosca
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Fidan Haciyeva


Azerbaijani, Russian, and English. The clip was directed by Jeyhun Karimov and Alex Anisenko, and was produced by Aziz Aliyev with operator of the clip being Nadir Mehdiyev and artist Narmina Valiyeva. On December 20, 2016, Fidan represented Azerbaijan at the 7th international world forum in Minsk at the invitation of the National Academic Bolshoi Theatre of the Opera and the Ballet of Belarus, with famous vocalists from a number of countries invited to perform at a gala concert. Following her performance she was invited by National Academic Bolshoi Theatre of
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Georgii Nelepp


. On the 110th anniversary of his birth, the Bolshoi Theatre held an honorary exhibit of Nelepp memorabilia. The same year, at the Kirov, he was the subject of a scholarly lecture in the series “Dazzling Names of the Kirov-Mariinsky Theatre.” The Bolshoi commemoration features recollections from Nelepp's director and friend L. V. Baratov: "When he was singing . . . no one would ever think about giving him a round of applause for a perfect high ‘C’, because this would have ruined the overall
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Vasili Vainonen


dances in Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride (1948, Bolshoi Theatre). He also wrote the libretto (together with Pavel Malyarevsky) for Shchedrin's The Little Humpbacked Horse (1960, Bolshoi Theatre) and choreographed dances in operas and concert numbers. In 1951-1953 he headed the ballet troupe of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. He was awarded a Stalin Prize of the first degree (1947) - for the ballet "Flames of Paris." He was married to Claudia Armashevskoy. V. I. Vaynonen died on
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Kristaq Paspali


he began performing in the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania as their main tenor. In 1958 he went to study music in Moscow. He was the first Albanian soloist, who starred in the famous Bolshoi Theatre. He sang, among others, in "Cavalleria rusticana" and "Pagliacci". Despite his success in Moscow, his return to Tirana was unspectacular. The relations between Russia and Albania had started to deteriorate, and the fact that, despite him singing Albanian songs in the Bolshoi, he also sang
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Anastasia Abramova


of Petersburg (Leningrad) and of Moscow. They passed into the USSR from the Russian Empire. School of ballet in St Petersburg developed high graceful dance, and the Moscow school was engaged a character dance. But in the 1930s under Stalin's orders, a group of Leningrad dancers arrived in Moscow to replace Moscow dancers. Subsequently, the Moscow school ceased to exist. Many Moscow dancers and choreographers have left the Bolshoi theatre. And those who could not find another job, continued to be listed in the Bolshoi theatre,
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Marina Semyonova


were namesakes) transferred to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. There she married Lev Karakhan (the civil marriage), an Old Bolshevik and Deputy Foreign Minister, best known as an advisor to Sun Yat-sen. He was purged in 1937. Semyonova was guest with the Paris Opéra Ballet in 1935 where she danced "Giselle" with Serge Lifar. She received the Stalin Prize for 1941 and retired in 1952. After that, she became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Natalia Bessmertnova,
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Māris Liepa


after he played the most crucial role of his career – Count Albert in staging of "Giselle". Collaboration with the new Ballet Master of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Yuri Grigorovich began in 1964. In 1966 Liepa had his first performance in re-staged Fokin's "Spirit of the Rose", in 1968 he played a part in the new version of "Spartacus" and received the highest accolades for the role of Krass in 1970. The relationship of Māris Liepa and the Ballet Master of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
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Yury Grigorovich


Bolshoi Theatre, where he would work as an artistic director until 1995. His most famous productions at the Bolshoi were "The Nutcracker" (1966), "Spartacus" (1967), and "Ivan the Terrible" (1975). He controversially reworked "Swan Lake" to produce a happy end for the story in 1984. In 1995, he was accused of having allowed the theatre to plunge into stagnation and after many a squabble was ousted from office. Thereupon he choreographed for various Russian companies before settling in
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Sergei Lemeshev


after suffering three heart attacks and having a lung removed. In 1953 Lemeshev was given the prestigious title "People's Artist of the USSR". He was also appointed assistant manager of the Bolshoi from 1957 to 1959. He debuted as director in 1951, with the production of La Traviata in the Maly Opera Theatre in Leningrad (now known as the Mikhaylovsky Theatre). Following this, he was made director for the production of Massenet's Werther in 1957 at the Bolshoi. Toward the end of his career, he mainly
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Lyudmila Tselikovskaya


title only in 1963 (having been notoriously denied the much coveted People's Artist of the USSR accolade). Ignored by the officialdom, Tselikovskaya was admired by the general public and is revered as a true legend of the Soviet War time cinema. Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya was born in Astrakhan to a family of musicians. Her father, a theatre musical producer, later went on to conduct the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra. Her mother, an opera singer, also performed in the Bolshoi in the late 1920s. In 1925 the family moved
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Alexandra Balashova


Alexandra Mikhailovna Balashova (; 3 May 1887 — 5 January 1979), also seen as Aleksandra Balashova or Alexandra Balachova, was a Russian ballet dancer, and later a dance teacher and choreographer. Alexandra Balashova was born in Moscow. She was educated at the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School. Balashova was a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre starting in 1905. She often danced with Mikhail Mordkin, and was known for such roles as Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty" and Odette/Odille in "Swan Lake". She performed in
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The Enchantress (opera)


season it was dropped from the repertoire. The sets and costumes were sent to Moscow where the opera received a single performance on 2 February 1890 [OS]. There was a second production at the Bolshoi Theatre on 25 January 1916 [OS], but this remained in the repertoire only until the end of the year. A third production at the Bolshoi in 1958 received 49 performances and remained in the repertoire until 1965. The latest production at the Bolshoi was premiered in 2012 Source: Tchaikovsky Research "Time": The
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Concordia Antarova


-soprano soloist for a year at the Mariinsky, before being hired as a replacement for another singer who worked at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Her debut in 1908 was as Ratmir in the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by Mikhail Glinka. From 1908 to 1930 and then from 1932 to 1936 she performed as a soloist of Bolshoi. From December 1930 to July 1932, she asked to be released from the Bolshoi and worked as a librarian from November 1931. She may have performed briefly in 1931 with the State Academic
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Danko (singer)


School at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 1995, at the Serge Lifar competition in San Francisco (USA), he received the Silver Award for the number staged by choreographer Sergei Bobrov. After graduation, in 1988, he was invited to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, where during the work he attended master classes from Asaf Messerer, Galina Ulanova, Marina Semyonova, Boris Akimov. In the 1990-2000's he participated in the main repertoire performances of the Bolshoi Theater: Spartacus, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The
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Maly Theatre (Moscow)


German, two French, and one "German or French" daily slots, with just one Friday night open to Russian plays. Thursdays and Fridays at Bolshoy were reserved for "light comedy" or musical genres. Thus, popular drama was regularly performed at the Bolshoy stage, alone or bundled with opera and ballet. For example, the January 31, 1828 night at Bolshoy stage for the benefit of Mikhail Shchepkin featured "The Robbers" by Friedrich Schiller, a single-act French opera, and a "vaudeville ballet
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Valentin Elizariev


" Cultural Center in Leningrad. From 1968 to 1970 he has been directing the dance studio in the Leningrad State University. In the age of 26, from 1973 onward, Valentin Elizariev became the Chief ballet master. of the Byelorussian State Academic Bolshoi Theatre. In 1982 he underwent a course in ballet direction in Paris, France with scholarship of UNESCO. From 1992 to 1996 he holds the position of the artistic director of the Ballet company in the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus. From 1996 to 2009
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Pavel Dmitrichenko


Pavel Vitalyevich Dmitrichenko () is a Russian ballet dancer and formerly a principal dancer of the Bolshoi Theatre. Dmitrichenko was born on in Moscow into a family of artists, all members of the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble under the direction of Igor Moiseyev. In 2002 he graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and was accepted into the ballet company of the Bolshoi Theatre. In 2005 he graduated from the Institute of Russian theater. He is Angelina Vorontsova's common-law husband. Among the roles he has played are:
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Alexandrov Ensemble soloists


performed at the Bolshoi Theatre 1963–1979, had a wide repertoire and was one of the leading tenors in a troupe which toured the world. From 1974 to 1976 he was the supervisor of the trainee group of Bolshoi Theatre soloists. From 1979 he was director of the Moscow Ice Ballet Ensemble. In the late 1980s he worked as general director of GosTsirk; he was the head of all circuses in Russia, and he published an article in "Dei/Disillusionist" magazine about a circus tour to the Vatican in 1982. Within
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Elizaveta Gerdt


only world-class dancers who chose to remain in Russia, while others emigrated to the West. In 1928, after 20 years of dancing, she resolved to abandon the stage and devote herself to teaching. She taught the class of perfection for the female dancers in the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre together with teaching the girls in her Alma mater (1927-1934). Then she moved from Leningrad to Moscow. There she taught the class for the female dancers at the Bolshoi Theatre, coaching ballerinas of the Bolshoi Ballet
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Marina Poplavskaya


Yevgeny Kolobov. She performed as a soloist during 2001–2004 at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, and debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2003 as Ann Truelove in Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress"; the next year at the Bolshoi she sang Maria in "Mazeppa". In 2005 her association with the Royal Opera, London began when she joined its Young Artists Programme, and in 2006 she received critical acclaim when she sang the title role of Rachel in a London concert performance of Halévy's "
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Angiolina Bosio


first at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and then again at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. She returned to Moscow for another performance and then was traveling by train back to St. Petersburg when she caught a bad cold. The disease affected her badly and her health rapidly declined. She died in 1859 at the age of 29 in Saint Petersburg. Her funeral drew a large crowd in St. Petersburg and a monument was erected in her memory near the cathedral at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery where she is buried. She is mentioned in Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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Lyudmila Vlasova


-parented. Her mother realized the daughter's potential of becoming a ballerina, and turned her to choreography school. Following graduation, Lyudmila Vlasova joined Bolshoi Theatre with which she performed in London and USA and danced with such greats as Maya Plisetskaya, Ekaterina Maximova, Natalia Bessmertnova and many others. Lyudmila Vlasova was the leading ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, where in 1971, acting in the movies "Naughty Limericks" and "Keystone", she met with Alexander Godunov. Soon they began to meet regularly and Lyudmila left her
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Semen Hulak-Artemovsky


Artemovsky left to continue his studies in Italy. Towards the end of his stay in that country, he began performing opera in Florence. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in 1842, Hulak-Artemovsky became a soloist of the Imperial Opera at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, a position he held for 22 years. In 1852 and 1853 he sang roles in Anton Rubinstein's first two operas, "Dmitry Donskoy" and "Fomka the Fool". Hulak-Artemovsky performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow from 1864 to 1865
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Boris Godunov (opera)


and Vasiliy Vasilyev, 'Vasilyev II' (Pretender). 1888, Moscow – Bolshoy Theatre premiere The Revised Version of 1872 received its Moscow premiere on 16 December 1888 at the Bolshoy Theatre. The Cell and Kromï scenes were omitted. Production personnel included Anton Bartsal (stage director), and Karl Valts (scene designer). Ippolit Altani conducted. The cast included Bogomir Korsov (Boris), Nadezhda Salina (Fyodor), Aleksandra Karatayeva (Kseniya), O. Pavlova (Nurse), Anton Bartsal (Shuysky),
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Boris Godunov (opera)


The Rimsky-Korsakov version remained the one usually performed in Russia, even after Mussorgsky's earthier original (1872) gained a place in Western opera houses. The Bolshoy Theatre has only recently embraced the composer's own version. Dmitriy Shostakovich worked on "Boris Godunov" in 1939–1940 on a commission from the Bolshoy Theatre for a new production of the opera. A conflation of the 1869 and 1872 versions had been published by Pavel Lamm and aroused keen interest in the piece. However, it did not erase doubts as to whether
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Don Quixote (ballet)


Don Quixote is a ballet in four acts and eight scenes, based on episodes taken from the famous novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and first presented by the Ballet of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Russia on . Petipa and Minkus revised the ballet into a far more expanded and elaborated edition in five acts and eleven scenes for the Imperial Ballet, first presented on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of St. Petersburg.
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Arkady Shilkloper


After two years of military service (1974 - 1976) he studied at the Moscow Gnessin Institute (Gnessin Russian Academy of Music) from 1976 to 1981. At the same time he began his career in the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre (1978 - 1985) and also began his first jazz activities. In 1984, he formed a duo with his colleague from the Bolshoi Theatre, bassist Mikhail Karetnikow, with whom he recorded the LP "Move". (Melodiya, С60 26043 003) "Horncall", 1988,
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Sergei Filin


Sergei Yurevitch Filin (; born 27 October 1970) is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016. He is currently the Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre. Previously, he was the artistic director of the ballet at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, serving in this capacity from 2008 to 2011. Filin was born in Moscow. He started dancing at age seven at the V. Loktev's Children's Ensemble of Folk Dances. At
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Spartacus (ballet)


The ballet received its first staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1958, choreographed by Igor Moiseyev; however it was the 1968 production, choreographed by Yury Grigorovich, which achieved the greatest acclaim for the ballet. It remains one of Khachaturian's best known works and is prominent within the repertoires of the Bolshoi Theatre and other ballet companies in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Principal Characters: The Roman consul Crassus returns to Rome from his latest conquests in a triumphal procession. Among his captives are the Thracian king Spartacus and
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