State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia

 

Since the beginning of the 21st century, after a long break, the theatre repertoire started including the masterpieces of Russian composers of the 20th century seen nowadays as the national classical heritage. In the recent years the Bolshoi has introduced the audiences to the operas The Gambler and The Fire Angel by Sergei Prokofiev, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Dmitry Shostakovich. as well as to the ballet The Bright Stream by Dmitry Shostakovich. Soon another opera by Sergei Prokofiev, War and Peace, will join the repertoire. In the centennial year of Dmitry Shostakovich all three of his ballets, The Bright Stream, The Bolt, and The Golden Age, will be represented in the playbill of the Bolshoi for the first time in history.
 
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