Classical music, opera, ballet and dance in Russia

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Bychkov, Semyon Gergiev, Valery Gerstein, Kirill Lugansky, Nikolai Netrebko, Anna Petrenko, Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Sokolov, Grigory See all...

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St PetersburgLa Bayadère

Mariinsky Theatre, Feb 04, 05, 06

Minkus: La Bayadère

Marius Petipa; Mariinsky Ballet; Mikhail Shishliannikov; Yevgeny Ponomarev; Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

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Intrada's Russian Christmas from Moscow's Yelokhovo Cathedral

Intrada and Ekaterina Antonenko © Live from London

Laurence Vittes, 07 Jan

Intrada's concert on the Great Feast Day of Orthodox Christmas featured first performances of music by Peter the Great's favorite composer Vasily Titov in more than 300 years.

*****

Isabella Zijp, 01 Apr

The Bolshoi dancers Anna Tikhomiova and Artemy Belyakov shine in the stylish and poetic version of La Sylphide by Johan Kobborg.

****1

Bogdan Volkov (Prince Myshkin), Pyotr Migunov (Rogozhin) © Damir Yusupov

Julien Hanck, 08 Oct

Completed in 1985 and premièred in Mannheim in 2013, Mieczysław Weinberg's The Idiot is a true rarity. Seeing it revived for the first time, it's thrilling to see the opera given the vocal and musical treatment it desrves, lending a helping hand to its return from oblivion.

****1

Edem Umerov (Boris) © Natasha Razina | State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

David Karlin, 20 Jun

In Tarkovsky's venerable production, the Mariinsky orchestra and chorus are brilliant – but too brilliant for their soloists, including two replacement Borises for an indisposed Mikhail Petrenko.

***11