World news about “Bolshoi Theatre” published by euronews.
Show goes on at the Bolshoi post acid attack It was curtain up at the Bolshoi – for the first time since the acid attack on the ballet company’s artistic director in January. A new version of Igor… 27/03/2013
Bolshoi staff rally in support of alleged acid attacker One hundred and fifty employees of the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow have signed a petition in support of dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko, who allegedly has confessed… 12/03/2013
Bolshoi Ballet dancer admits acid attack A top dancer at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre has admitted plotting an acid attack that nearly blinded the troupe’s artistic director Sergei Filin. It follows… 06/03/2013
Bolshoi ballet dancer admits acid attack Russian police say one of the top dancers at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre has confessed to plotting an acid attack that nearly blinded the troupe’s artistic… 06/03/2013
Dancer held in Boshoi Ballet acid attack A dancer and two other men have been arrested in connection with an acid attack on the director of Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Ballet. Sergei Filin’s eyes… 05/03/2013
Suspects questioned over Bolshoi acid attack Police in Moscow have detained a suspect in connection with an acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Sergei Filin was nearly blinded… 05/03/2013
Spotlight on Russia Russia has an enviably high literacy rate of nearly 100%. The influences of the Soviet era are still very much present although, to keep up with the modern… 02/03/2012
Bolshoi Theatre reopens after renovations After years of controversy, questions over missing funds, and accusations of corruption the Bolshoi Theatre renovation is complete and the theatre is due to… 27/10/2011
Filin says ‘wait and see’ for acid attackerThe artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet Sergei Filin has left hospital in Moscow bound for specialist treatment in Germany to try and save his… 04/02/2013
Choreographer steps in to head Bolshoi balletThe Bolshoi ballet has unveiled the choreographer who will head the company in the absence of Sergei Filin. Galina Stepanenko was unveiled to the… 22/01/2013
Acid attack shines harsh light on Russia’s ballet sceneThe creative director of Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre is facing the possibility that he may not see properly again. With his face almost entirely covered with… 19/01/2013
Acid attack on Bolshoi ballet artistic directorRussian doctors say the Bolshoi ballet’s artistic director may lose his eyesight following an acid attack outside his Moscow home. Sergei Filin was… 18/01/2013
Russians enjoy a night a the Bolshoi, via YouTubeThe Bolshoi Ballet is a proud part of Russia’s heritage. However, traditionally not everyone in the vast country has had the chance or the means to see a… 15/03/2012
Bolshoi dance pair defect to St PetersburgOne of the Bolshoi Theatre’s most promising dance partnerships is leaving Moscow in favour of appearing on stage in St Petersburg. Prima ballerina Natalia… 15/11/2011
Bolshoi expansion gala aims for autumnSix years of Bolshoi Theatre renovations in Moscow are scheduled for completion this autumn, with several thousand builders now on the more than half a… 21/07/2011
American Ballet Theatre finally returns to RussiaThe American Ballet Theatre has returned to Moscow for the first time since the 1960s, ending decades of frosty relations after Mikhail Baryshnikov, then one… 01/04/2011
Ballerina Marina Semyonova dies at 102One of Russia’s greatest ballerinas, Marina Semyonova, has died at the age of 102 at her home in Moscow. Born in St. Petersburg in 1908, she joined the… 10/06/2010
Belle of the Bolshoi Ballet dies – aged 92The Russian ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, who is said to have been Joseph Stalin’s favourite dancer, has died in Moscow. She was 92. Lepeshinskaya was born… 21/12/2008
Bolshoi season opens with a step back in timeMoscow’s Bolshoi ballet has launched it’s current season with a retrospective of three centuries of choreography. It consists of three one-act ballets that… 05/12/2008
