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The Bolshoi will be on tour in Peking from 24 April to 5 May.
Performances will take place at the National Centre for the Performing Arts Opera Hall which has a seating capacity for 2400. The Centre, which opened in 2007, is a contemporary architecture icon in the Chinese capital.

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most frequently performed plays in the world and that goes for the ballet version too. When it is long absent from the repertoire, both public and performers yearn for it. This spring the Bolshoi is presenting the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s famous ballet in a production by Yuri Grigorovich. The Maestro’s first Romeo at the Bolshoi was in 1979, but since then a lot of water has gone under the bridge. There has virtually been a complete turn-over in Company members and the new dancers are temperamental and ’technical’ in the new manner. We refer to this premiere as “a major revival” of the former production though, in effect, it amounts to a new version.

In honor of the great dancer there will be a performance of Giselle, in his version. The title role will be danced by Marianna Ryzhkina and Myrtha by Galina Stepanenko (debut). Both ballerinas were pupils of the late Yekaterina Maximova. The Bolshoi Theatre congratulates Vladimir Vasiliev on the Liberty prize which has just been presented to him in New York. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the development of Russian-American cultural relations. We also congratulate Mr Vasiliev on his forthcoming birthday (April 18).

Hallberg’s Bolshoi debut will be in Giselle. Natalia Osipova will dance the title role.

A briefing devoted to the upcoming premiere of ROMEO AND JULIET will be held on Sunday, April, 18 at 11 a.m.
In the briefing will take part choreographer Yuri Grigorovich and performers of the title roles.
Admittance via New Stage Entrance No. 14

Please, apply for accreditation in advance by fax + 7 495 692 33 67 or e-mail pr@bolshoi.ru

As Nikia.

Among the candidates for the title best female dancer 2009 is Bolshoi Theatre prima-ballerina, Maria Alexandrova.