The “My Maya” production, created with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives along with a team of professionals and dedicated to what would be Maya Plisetskaya’s 100th birthday this November, took place ahead of other celebrations in mid-September at the Bolshoi Dramatic Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Produced by Sergey Velichkin, the gala …
As winter weather peeks in — with snow predicted this last week in October for Petersburg — the wintertime setting of Mikhail Fokine’s 1911 production of “Petrushka” seems an apt choice for October billing. As the first in a three-ballet program on the 24th of October, the rather dark tale of the puppet retains …