
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.
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...