Bolshoi theatre has prepared the unprecedented surprise for European public. Now ballet fanciers will be able to see ballets staged by Bolshoi on European cinema screens (mainly in France) in real time. The project will start from March 31 in the frames of Year of France in Russia and Russia in France.
Flames of Paris ballet, Jeanne - Anastasia Meskova, Jerome - Andrey Merkuriev, Bolshoi theatre
So 150 cinemas will host the real-time shows of the Flames of Paris ballet on the last day of March. Among the first cities to watch ballet translations are Paris, Avignon, Le Havre, Lyon, Nancy, Nice, Toulon, and Toulouse, as well as Switzerland's Bern and Lausanne.
Then the Bolshoi theatre will show more ballets in some 200 French cinemas in the next season starting this fall. The project will be opened with Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky on September 26 and the other popular Tchaikovsky’s ballet Nutcracker will follow on December 19.
The Flames of Paris ballet by Russian composer Boris Asafyev and choreographer Vasily Vainonen was first staged in Moscow in 1932. The ballet is based on the events of the French Revolution. It includes the scenes of storming of the Tuileries Palace by the Marseillais and their victorious march on Paris. The modern version of the ballet by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky was staged in the Bolshoi Theatre in 2008.
Jeanne - Maria Alexandrova, Jérôme - Denis Savin, Bolshoi theatre
The court ballet "Rinaldo and Armida", Mireille de Poitiers-Armida - Anna Antonicheva,
Cupid - Ekaterina Krysanova, Bolshoi theatre
Jeanne - Anastasia Meskova, Costa de Beauregard - Yuri Klevtsov, Bolshoi theatre
The court ballet "Rinaldo and Armida", Mireille de Poitiers-Armida - Ekaterina Shipulina,
Antoine Mistral-Rinaldo - Vladimir Neporozhny, Bolshoi theatre
Marquis Costa de Beauregard - Yuri Klevtsov, Adelina - Anna Rebetskaya, Bolshoi theatre
Libretto by Alexander Belinsky and Alexei Ratmansky on the basis of the original libretto by Nikolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev
Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky with use of the original choreography by Vasily Vainonen
Music Director: Pavel Sorokin
Scenographers: Ilya Utkin, Evgeny Monakhov
Costume Designer: Yelena Markovskaya
Lighting Designer: Damir Ismagilov As you probably know now the Main Stage of the theatre is under construction. Here you can see exclusive pictures of Bolshoi's future interiors. | 
