Bolshoi Ballet

50th Anniversary of the Bolshoi Ballet’s first visit to the UK

Royal Opera House,

London WC2

31 July to 19 August 2006

Russia’s great Bolshoi Ballet company comes to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for an exciting three-week season, which includes The Pharaoh’s Daughter, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Bright Stream (Shostakovich Centenary Tribute), Mixed Programme (Go For Broke, Pique Dame, Symphony In C), and Don Quixote, presented by Victor Hochhauser.

Fifty years ago, the Bolshoi Ballet appeared for the first time in the UK on the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Their bravura performances confirmed the legend, enthralling audiences in a love affair which has lasted for half a century. Now again, together with the great Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, is a chance to see this magnificent company in ballets old and new, intimate and grand, lyrical and dazzling.

All the Bolshoi’s magnificent leading dancers – including Svetlana Zakharova, Svetlana Lunkina, Maria Alexandrova, Maria Allash, Ekaterina Shipulina, Anastasia Yatsenko, Natalia Osipova, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Sergei Filin, Andrei Uvarov, Dmitri Belogolovtsev, Dmitri Gudanov, Yuri Klevtsov, Denis Matvienko and Ruslan Skvortsov – will dance in London. In total the company will bring over 200 artists, including the full Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre.