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If at Christmas and New Year ballet lovers traditionally applaud The Nutcracker, then on the Old New Year the Bolshoi is going to please music lovers: on the 13th of January, the first gala concert of 2022 will be held, and its name speaks for itself “Plácido Domingo invites…”. Together with the renowned master, outstanding musicians, iconic figures of the modern opera world, will perform on the Historic Stage.

On the 23^rd of January 2022, it will be a hundred and ten years since the birth of Boris Pokrovsky (1912–2009). Having started at Christmas, the festival commemorating Pokrovsky, an outstanding opera director and teacher, theorist and practitioner, the main director of the Bolshoi (1952, 1955, 1956-63, 1970-82) and the founder of the Chamber Musical Theatre, which became a part of the Bolshoi as its Chamber Stage four years ago, will continue until almost the end of January.

On the 2^nd of January, Yuri Grigorovich is turning ninety-five. The Bolshoi Theatre is celebrating this anniversary by, as is traditional, bringing together performances staged by the maestro in one festival playbill: original ballets and his interpretations of ballet’s classical heritage.