to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
to music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Sergei Prokofiev
Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Adam
Ilya Demutsky
Arif Melikov
Aram Khachaturyan
Boris Asafiev
Alexander Glazunov
to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Alfred Shnitke, Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam
Herman Severin Levenskiold
Cesare Pugni
Ludwig Minkus
Alexander Glazunov
to music by Alfred Schnitke
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ilya Demutsky
Yuri Krasavin
to music by Anatoly Korolyov
to music by Valery Gavrilin
to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ludwig Minkus
to music by Frederic Chopin
Ludvig Minkus
to music by Sergei Prokofiev
Leo Delibes
to music by Dmitri Shostakovich
to music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Joby Talbot
The world premiere of the ballet A Hero of Our Time was held on the 22nd of July 2015 at the Bolshoi Theatre. Being released soon after the celebration of the two-hundred-year anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Lermontov, it realised one of the greatest novels of Russian literature through the medium of choreography. That event marked the return to the tradition of a large-scale narrative ballet, a cornerstone for Soviet ballet. For many decades, the Bolshoi has been a world symbol of large multiple act ballets with a serious literary basis, developed dramaturgy, specially created music, complex sets and hundreds of costumes.
The world premiere took place on 22 July 2015.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Can it be that wickedness is so attractive?..
Pechorin’s diary
BELA
1.
Prologue
Pechorin alone.
When I saw Bela in my own house; when, for the first time, I held her on my knee and kissed her black locks, I, fool that I was, thought that she was an angel sent to me by sympathetic fate... Again I was mistaken; the love of a savage is little better than that of your lady of quality, the barbaric ignorance and simplicity of the one weary you as much as the coquetry of the other. I am not saying that I do not love her still; I am grateful to her for a few fairly sweet moments; I would give my life for her — only I am bored with her... Whether I am a fool or a villain I know not; but this is certain, I am also most deserving of pity — perhaps more than she...