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7 unusual facts about Bolshoi Theatre


31 June

After its premiere, it was archived for over ten years because Alexander Godunov, one of the film's leads who was also a famous dancer in the Bolshoi Theatre, requested political asylum in the United States due to persecution by Soviet censorship.

Academic theater

The title was established in 1919 and was given to six oldest theaters of the Soviet Union: Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, and Mikhaylovsky Theatre.

Bolshoi

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

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.

Joseph Bové

He designed numerous private mansions in Moscow, but his most famous work remains the Bolshoi Theatre.

New National Theatre Tokyo

The NNBT has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (Asami Maki's Raymonda in February 2008), and will also perform Asami Maki's version of La dame aux camellias, as a guest company at the Bolshoi Theatre in September 2009.

Theatrical Novel

Helen says that while she, on returning Mikhail Bulgakov in evening from the Bolshoi Theatre, laying dinner, he sat at his desk and wrote a few pages, then went to her incredibly pleased, rubbing his hands with satisfaction.


Ada Sari

In the spring of 1914 Sari embarked on a lengthy concert tour of Russia with a group of Italian singers which included extended stays in Moscow and Saint Petersburg for opera performances at the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres.

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.

Anna Antonicheva

The same year, she joined Bolshoi Theatre where she reprised roles in such plays as Hungarian bride in Swan Lake, Shireen in the Legend of Love, and Myrtha in Giselle.

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.

Aristarkh Lentulov

From pre-revolutionary times, Lentulov was actively involved in various theatrical projects, designing for plays in the Kamerny Theatre (The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1916) and contributing sets for a production of Scriabin's Prometheus in the Bolshoi Theatre in 1919.

Christopher Moulds

Later on, he produced Ariodante with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and became involved in the Young Artists Program in the Bolshoi Theatre.

Jana Jonášová

Her performance credits include appearances at the Berlin State Opera, the National Theatre in Belgrade, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, the Edinburgh Festival, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Hungarian State Opera House, La Monnaie, De Nederlandse Opera, the Opéra National de Bordeaux, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the Semperoper, the Teatro Massimo, and the Teatro Real among others.

Lev Leshchenko

Between 1960 and 1959, Leshchenko worked as a stage helper at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, and before being conscripted into the army in 1961, he worked as an adjuster at a precision measuring instrument factory.

Nadezhda Repina

At the same time, architects Andrei Mikhailov and Joseph Bové have built a new theatre on the place of the burnt theatre of Michael Maddox – now this is Bolshoi Theatre; it opened on 18 January 1825.

Theatre Square

The square is named after the three theatres situated there — Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theatre, and Russian Youth Theatre.

Vorkuta State Drama Theatre

In the post the chief director of the theater was appointed a prisoner Boris Mordvinov (ru: Мордвинов, Борис Аркадьевич), former director of the Bolshoi Theatre, and professor of the Moscow Conservatory (he was appointed as a spy).

Vyacheslav Polozov

As a member of the Opera Theatre (Minsk), in 1982, Polozov made his successful debut with the Bolshoi Theatre when he performed Alfredo opposite Margarita Voites and Turiddu in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana opposite Makvala Kasrashvili and Elena Obraztsova.


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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.