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unusual facts about Bolshoi


Bolshoi

Bolshoi Theatre, a major ballet and opera theatre in Moscow, Russia


Alexander Polishchuk

From 1989 to 1991, he worked with Helikon Opera and both Bolshoi and Mikhaylovsky Theatres, with which he have international performances as well.

Ariel López Padilla

His dedication and perseverance through several years led him to take courses and workshops about dance, participating in countries like Mexico (practically the whole Mexican republic), Cuba, France, Germany, United States and the extinct URSS, where he had the privilege auditioned for the Bolshoi Ballet in the capital, Moscow.

Charlie Jordan Evans

Evans regularly attended dance classes taught within the Susan Robinson School of Dance, based in West Byfleet, whose notable alumni include Young British Dancer of the Year 2008 runner-up Laurettta Summerscales and Bolshoi Academy graduate Henry Perkins.

Ekaterina Krysanova

The same year, she became a member of Bolshoi Ballet and was promoted to the soloist by 2009 under a direction of Svetlana Adyrkhaeva and as a result played in the Bavarian State Opera.

Ekaterina Maximova

When the Bolshoi Ballet toured to the United States for the first time in 1959, Maximova also performed as a guest artist with the Metropolitan Opera in leading roles in The Stone Flower and other ballets.

Grand Theatre, Swansea

The company, which started in Bristol, is a group of young dancers, most whom trained in Russia at the Bolshoi and Kirov academies.

Ippolit Al'tani

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).

Mark Ermler

His first conducting appearance at the Bolshoi Theatre was in a 1957 production of Cavalleria rusticana.

Natalia Ermolenko-Yuzhina

Ermolenko-Yuzhina and her husband left the Bolshoi in 1908, and joined Sergei Zimin's opera company, remaining for two seasons.

Pavel Dmitrichenko

Dmitrichenko was arrested March 5, 2013 in relation to the attack on January 17, 2013 of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Sergei Filin.

Tatiana Doronina

After graduating the famous MKhAT theatre school in Moscow, she returned to Leningrad and joined the Bolshoi Drama Theatre directed by Georgy Tovstonogov.

Yuri Vladimirov

He became a member of Bolshoi Ballet soon after, and was married to Nina Sorokina who was also a dancer.


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