Event listing: Anna Karenina | Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | Mon 11 Jul 2011 at 20:00

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Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House New York City, New York, 10023, United States

Dates/times in New York time zone

Programme

Music: Sergei Rachmaninov, Witold Lutosławski, Sulkhan Tsintsadze and Josef Bardanashvili
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky

Performers

Mariinsky Ballet
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Valery Gergiev	Conductor
Diana Vishneva	Dancer	Anna
Yuri Smekalov	Dancer	Wronski

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Mariinsky Ballet: A look at the future?

Stephanie Sirabian, 11th July

For all their classical roots and tradition, the Mariinsky Ballet opened their week at the Metropolitan Opera House with an innovative performance of Anna Karenina. Artistic director Maestro Valery Gergiev blended a number of unique elements to bring Leo Tolstoy’s epic to life, including his own conducting of Rodion Shchedrin’s modern score.First, consider the Mariinsky Ballet’s long history.