
to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

to music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Prokofiev

Adolphe Adam

Adolphe Adam

Arif Melikov

to music by Anatoly Korolyov

to music by Alfred Schnitke


Alexander Glazunov

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Aram Khachaturyan

Ludwig Minkus

Ilya Demutsky

to music by Sergei Prokofiev

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

Leo Delibes

Boris Asafiev

to music by Dmitri Shostakovich

Herman Severin Levenskiold

Yuri Krasavin

Alexander Glazunov

Ludwig Minkus

to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky

to music by Valery Gavrilin

Cesare Pugni

Ilya Demutsky

Ludvig Minkus, Edouard Deldevez

to music by Frederic Chopin

Joby Talbot

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

to music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

The world premiere of one-act ballets, united under the joint name Four Characters in Search of a Plot, was held on the 10th of September 2020.
The programme included four ballets, staged by four foreign choreographers, who have different experiences of life and the profession, belong to different schools, reflect different styles and work with different dance techniques. The performances they staged have only one feature in common: they were created especially for the troupe of the Bolshoi Theatre.
The process of staging took place at a complex time: in June 2020. The whole world was divided into tiny national ‘hives’ and locked into them. The Artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Makhar Vaziev decided that in order to uplift the spirit of the artists, they had to be gathered together and provided with work: “The best time in life for a ballet artist is the time spent in a rehearsal studio with a choreographer, when something new is being created. When it became clear, that all our plans had been ruined, I realised that many of our artists missed theatre and were desperate to work. At the same time, the majority of creative practitioners who are usually hard to reach happened to be free: because of the quarantine around the world, plans were destroyed and obligations were cancelled. I approached my friends, and they approached theirs. I started to study ballets and consider various choreographers. Chose four to invite. The most important thing for me was whether they had their own dance language. The choreographers had a complete freedom of choice – they were free to choose themes, ideas, music and performers”.
Premiered on September 10, 2020.
to music by Mikhail Glinka and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Accompanied by the Bolshoi Theatre Ochestra
to music by David Lang
to music by Enrique Granados
Accompanied by piano
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Saturday, 12:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00