Bolshoi Ballet Season 2020/21

The Bolshoi Ballet is back!

The legendary Russian company offers dance lovers the opportunity to experience five of their most iconic shows on the big screen. In November, Spartacus, a sensational ballet composed by Aram Khachaturian, opens this season with a live broadcast from the Bolshoi Theatre’s historic stage. In December, Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic The Nutcracker will bring out a festive atmosphere in movie theatres. George Balanchine’s sparkling Jewels opens the new year with a live broadcast, followed by the captivating Swan Lake in early March to ravish cinema audiences. Finally, The Pharaoh’s Daughter, a monumental show live from Moscow, will bring the program to beautiful close in Pierre Lacotte’s production.

Experience the best of classical ballet in cinemas all over the world.

Die Ballette

SPARTACUS
November 7, 2021 – 4PM CET
LIVE
2:50h
Music Aram Khachaturian
Choreography Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto Yuri Grigorovich (after the novel by Raffaelo Giovagnolli, ideas from Nikolai Volkov’s scenario)

THE NUTCRACKER
December 19, 2021 – 4PM CET
2:15h
Music Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto Yuri Grigorovich (after E.T.A. Hoffmann and Marius Petipa)

JEWELS
January 23, 2022 – 4PM CET
LIVE
2:20h
Music Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography George Balanchine

SWAN LAKE
March 6, 2022 – 4PM CET
2:35h
Choreography Yuri Grigorovich
Libretto Yuri Grigorovich

THE PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER
May 1, 2022 – 5PM CET – CANCELLED!
LIVE
2:50h
Music Cesare Pugni
Choreography Pierre Lacotte

Libretto Jean-Henry Saint-Georges and Marius Petipa (after the novel Le roman de la momie by Théophile Gautier)