Bolshoi Ballet in London 2016

Ballet and Orchestra Tour, London 2016

The Bolshoi Ballet ‘brand’ was born sixty years ago during the Company’s first foreign tour. The tour was to London and the date was 1956. The Bolshoi Ballet appeared at The Royal Opera House where the ovations brought the house down and aroused a second wave of interest in ballet in general and in Russian ballet, in particular (the stimulus for the first wave was, of course, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes). It was the 1956 tour which made the Company’s name and won for it worldwide recognition.

Ten year’s ago our Company’s faithful impresarios, Lilian and Victor Hochhauser, celebrated the golden jubilee of the legendary 1956 tour, by another major Bolshoi Ballet Company London season. And this year brings a big, new Bolshoi Ballet London tour and the diamond jubilee of the union between our Company, the Hochhausers and The Royal Opera House. And it is in these very words – “Bolshoi Ballet Diamond Jubilee” – that our tour is advertised on The Royal Opera House web-site.

As is usually the case with a tour to one of the world’s great ballet ‘hubs’, the programme will include both classical works and recent additions to the repertoire. We are taking Swan Lake, the recently restaged Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, in a reworking by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka (2007), a Soviet era hit The Flames of Paris in a revival (2008) by Ratmansky, and The Taming of the Shrew (2014), specially staged for the Bolshoi by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Both Le Corsaire and The Flames of Paris have already been on tour to England but, to-date, The Taming of the Shrew (excluding a visit to St. Petersburg and to the Principality of Monaco, where the choreographer lives), has only been seen on screen, and it is therefore awaited with special interest.

CAST:

Don Quixote

25 July, 7.30 pm
Kitri: Olga Smirnova
Basilio: Denis Rodkin
A Street Dancer: Anna Tikhomirova
Espada: Ruslan Skvortsov
The Queen of the Dryads: Yulia Stepanova
Don Quixote: Alexei Loparevich
Sancho Pansa: Roman Simachev

26 July, 7.30 pm
Kitri: Maria Alexandrova
Basilio: Vladislav Lantratov
A Street Dancer: Anna Okuneva
Espada: Vitaly Biktimirov
The Queen of the Dryads: Yulia Stepanova
Don Quixote: Alexei Loparevich
Sancho Pansa: Roman Simachev

27 July, 7.30 pm
Kitri: Ekaterina Krysanova
Basilio: Semyon Chudin
A Street Dancer: Anna Tikhomirova
Espada: Ruslan Skvortsov
The Queen of the Dryads: Anna Nikulina
Don Quixote: Alexei Loparevich
Sancho Pansa: Georgy Gusev

28 July, 7.30 pm
Kitri: Margarita Shrainer (debut)
Basilio: Artem Ovcharenko
A Street Dancer: Angelina Karpova
Espada: Vitaly Biktimirov
The Queen of the Dryads: Anna Nikulina
Don Quixote: Alexei Loparevich
Sancho Pansa: Georgy Gusev

Swan Lake

29 July, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Olga Smirnova
Prince Siegfried: Denis Rodkin
The Evil Genius: Artemy Belyakov
Friends to the Prince: Nina Kaptsova, Kristina Kretova
The Fool: Vyacheslav Lopatin

30 July, 2.00 pm
Odette-Odile: Anna Nikulina
Prince Siegfried: Ruslan Skvortsov
The Evil Genius: Mikhail Kryuchkov (debut)
Friends to the Prince: Kristina Kretova, Дарья Хохлова
The Fool: Denis Medvedev

30 July, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Ekaterina Krysanova
Prince Siegfried: Semyon Chudin
The Evil Genius: Igor Tsvirko
Friends to the Prince: Nina Kaptsova, Kristina Kretova
The Fool: Georgy Gusev

1 August, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Olga Smirnova
Prince Siegfried: Vladislav Lantratov
The Evil Genius: Artemy Belyakov
Friends to the Prince: Kristina Kretova, Дарья Хохлова
The Fool: Vyacheslav Lopatin

2 August, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Yulia Stepanova (debut with the Bolshoi Ballet Company)
Prince Siegfried: Artem Ovcharenko
The Evil Genius: Igor Tsvirko
Friends to the Prince: Anna Okuneva, Ana Turazashvili
The Fool: Georgy Gusev

8 August, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Svetlana Zakharova
Prince Siegfried: Denis Rodkin
The Evil Genius: Artemy Belyakov
Friends to the Prince: Anna Okuneva, Ana Turazashvili
The Fool: Vyacheslav Lopatin

9 August, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Olga Smirnova
Prince Siegfried: Semyon Chudin
The Evil Genius: Mikhail Kryuchkov
Friends to the Prince: Nina Kaptsova, Kristina Kretova
The Fool: Denis Medvedev

10 August, 7.30 pm
Odette-Odile: Svetlana Zakharova
Prince Siegfried: Denis Rodkin
The Evil Genius: Artemy Belyakov
Friends to the Prince: Anna Okuneva, Ana Turazashvili
The Fool: Vyacheslav Lopatin

The Taming of the Shrew

3 August, 7.30 pm
Katharina: Ekaterina Krysanova
Petruchio: Vladislav Lantratov
Bianca: Olga Smirnova
Lucentio: Semyon Chudin
Hortensio: Igor Tsvirko
Gremio: Vyacheslav Lopatin
The Widow: Юлия Гребенщикова
Baptista: Artemy Belyakov
The Housekeeper: Anna Tikhomirova
Grumio: Georgy Gusev

4 August, 7.30 pm
Katharina: Kristina Kretova
Petruchio: Denis Savin
Bianca: Nina Kaptsova
Lucentio: Artem Ovcharenko
Hortensio: Alexander Smoliyaninov
Gremio: Denis Medvedev
The Widow: Анна Балукова
Baptista: Karim Abdullin
The Housekeeper: Yanina Parienko
Grumio: Georgy Gusev

The Flames of Paris

5 August, 7.30 pm
Jeanne: Ekaterina Krysanova
Philippe: Igor Tsvirko
Adeline: Nina Kaptsova
Jerome: Vyacheslav Lopatin
Mireille de Poitiers: Yulia Stepanova
Antoine Mistral: Denis Rodkin

6 August, 2.00 pm
Jeanne: Kristina Kretova
Philippe: Mikhail Lobukhin
Adeline: Anna Nikulina
Jerome: Denis Savin
Mireille de Poitiers: Anna Tikhomirova
Antoine Mistral: Artem Ovcharenko

6 August, 7.30 pm
Jeanne: Maria Alexandrova
Philippe: Vladislav Lantratov
Adeline: Nina Kaptsova
Jerome: Alexander Smoliyaninov
Mireille de Poitiers: Yulia Stepanova
Antoine Mistral: Denis Rodkin

Le Corsaire

11 August, 7.30 pm
Medora: Maria Alexandrova
Conrad: Vladislav Lantratov
Gulnare: Anna Tikhomirova
Birbanto: Denis Savin
Pas d’esclaves: Nina Kaptsova, Vyacheslav Lopatin

12 August, 7.30 pm
Medora: Anna Nikulina
Conrad: Mikhail Lobukhin
Gulnare: Nina Kaptsova
Birbanto: Vitaly Biktimirov
Pas d’esclaves: Kristina Kretova, Igor Tsvirko

13 August, 2.00 pm
Medora: Yulia Stepanova (debut)
Conrad: Denis Rodkin
Gulnare: Kristina Kretova
Birbanto: Vitaly Biktimirov
Pas d’esclaves: Margarita Shrainer, Alexander Smoliyaninov

13 August, 7.30 pm
Medora: Ekaterina Krysanova
Conrad: Igor Tsvirko
Gulnare: Anna Tikhomirova
Birbanto: Denis Savin
Pas d’esclaves: Nina Kaptsova, Vyacheslav Lopatin

Seyd, the Pacha: Alexei Loparevich (all the performances)
Isaac Lanquedem: Yegor Simachev (all the performances)

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