
Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Alexander Glazunov

Cesare Pugni

to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Alfred Shnitke, Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam

Leo Delibes

Ludwig Minkus

Aram Khachaturyan

Alexander Glazunov

Yuri Krasavin

to music by Anatoly Korolyov

Ilya Demutsky

Ludvig Minkus, Edouard Deldevez

Ludwig Minkus

Georges Bizet–Rodion Shchedrin

Sergei Prokofiev


Joby Talbot

to music by Frederic Chopin
Sergei Prokofiev

to music by Sergei Prokofiev

Arif Melikov

to music by Valery Gavrilin

Adolphe Adam

to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Herman Severin Levenskiold
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Yuri Krasavin

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Yuri Krasavin

to music by Alfred Schnitke and Milko Lazar


In the 1960s Maya Plisetskaya was officially called Prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre. She didn’t lack performances, yet the feeling of artistic dissatisfaction was growing. She wanted to dance not just classical pieces, but something new, staged specifically for her. Having attended performances of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba at the end of 1966, which came on tour to Moscow, she conceived an idea to invite the Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to stage the ballet Carmen, which she had long dreamt about.
On the 20th of April 1967, Carmen Suite was first shown on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. The ballet was completed quite quickly and the transcript of the opera by G. Bizet was done by Shchedrin in record time: over twenty days. The splendid and metaphorically precise set, the key idea of which was formulated by the ballet master in the following concise phrase, “Carmen’s whole life is corrida” (a bullfight), were designed by the well-known theatre artist, the cousin of Maya Plisetskaya, Boris Messerer, then the chief artist at the Moscow Art Theatre. The premiere was conducted by maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
For the first time entered the repertory of the Bolshoi Theatre on April 20, 1967.
Revived on November 18, 2005.
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00