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Fiery footwork from Margarita Shrainer and Igor Tsvirko kick life into Fadeyechev’s version of Don Quixote. 

Дон Кто? Лучше всего забыть о Сервантесе, когда речь идет о балете «Дон Кихот», особенно о постановке Алексея Фадеечева трехлетней давности, впервые показанной в театре Ковент-Гарден в 2016

This bright, brief and breezy production is occasionally hard to follow, but nonetheless soaked in rustic charm.

Near perfection from the corps de ballet represent the Bolshoi at its very best during its Royal Opera House residency.

Subtlety has no place here. Go for the explosive male dancing and two contrasting female leads.

Большой, храбрый, напористый. Если вы хотите посмотреть, как танцуют балет «Спартак», к вашим услугам только одна труппа: Большой балет.

The Bolshoi delivers a big, bold, and explosive Spartacus in the way that only the Bolshoi can.

The Bolshoi are beautiful but uncertain dancers of Balanchine in Brisbane.

Ratmansky adds choreographic and aesthetic sense to a ballet that doesn't have much to say.

The Bolshoi Ballet's London residency continues with Alexei Ratmansky's restaging of The Flames of Paris

Unveiled in 2014, Jean-Christophe Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew has been an enormous hit in Moscow. Here it received a triumphant London première as part of the Bolshoi's three-week Royal Opera House residency.

Balanchine’s Jewels is the perfect showcase piece to display the excellent dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Alexei Ratmansky's The Flames of Paris shows the Bolshoi Ballet in top form at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Rimsky-Korsakov's opera remain rarities outside Russia, but the Bolshoi Opera made The Tsar’s Bride the anchor of this year's Hong Kong Arts Festival programme. 

Week two of the Bolshoi Ballet's New York engagement featured the effervescent Maria Alexandrova as Kitri in a mostly successful Don Quixote. Alexandrova and Lantratov (as Basilio) lit up the stage of the Koch Theater (Lincoln Centre Festival, New York)  

There can be no lovelier and mystical moment in classical ballet than the sight of 32 ethereal ‘Shades’ in a ribbon of white, slowly descending from a darkened mountain range, down a zigzag ramp to the stage.

De très belles nuances, un son chaud, et surtout une interprétation réfléchie : dirigé par Tugan Sokhiev, le Bolchoï sublime Rachmaninov et Borodine à la Philharmonie.

La Philharmonie invite le Bolchoï : sous la direction de Tugan Sokhiev, solistes, orchestre et chœurs de l'institution russe ont délivré une extraordinaire version de concert d'Ivan le terrible, opéra de Rimsky-Korsakov.

En invitant la prestigieuse troupe du Bolchoï de Moscou pour une représentation d’Eugène Onéguine de Tchaïkovski, la direction du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence a permis la réalisation d’un miracle.

Pour clôturer la saison, le théâtre du Bolshoï donne sa version de la Damnation de Faust de Berlioz, avec la complicité du metteur en scène allemand Peter Stein. Version respectueuse du livret et de la partition, qui cherche la beauté et la force expressive avant tout.