For their fall visit to Petersburg, the Bolshoi Ballet decided to bring the entertaining Soviet comedy “The Bright Stream,” an atypical production based heavily on pantomime, story line and comic relief, with contemporary dancing vignettes interspersed that include bizarre onstage machinations — a dog, bicycle, and oversized vegetables during the peasant harvest are a few …
Although less well known in some areas of the world, Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita” retains immense popularity in Russia, where musical, opera and film versions have drawn significant attention. But no ballet version of the famous book existed until Zurich choreographer Edward Klug set his version at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2021 — a …
Based on music from the opera by the same name but with a score recreated by Yuri Krasavin specifically for this production, Yuri Possokhov’s “Queen of Spades” premiered at the Mariinsky in July 2024. Describing the ballet, Possokhov stated, “It’s a fantasy. For me the most important thing is to give the production the meaning …