The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow is rightfully considered the most important theater in Russia. Its chronology begins in 1776, from the time of Catherine II. It still remains imperial and is a symbol of the greatness of the Russian state and its culture. The opening of the new season after the summer tour in 2012 will take place on September 6.
With the opening after the reconstruction, which lasted five years, of the main stage of the theater, the audience got the opportunity to fully enjoy its repertoire, which widely presents the masterpieces of Russian musical art of the 19th-20th centuries, as well as new works of the opera and ballet genre. Two-thirds of the works on his stage are masterpieces owned by domestic composers.
In recent years, the theater’s repertoire has been replenished with the following operas: Player, Fiery Angel, War and Peace, Prokofiev’s ballet Cinderella. On stage, you can listen and see Shostakovich’s famous opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and his ballet The Golden Age. On the centenary of the birth of this great Russian composer, the Bolshoi Theater staged all three ballets created by him, which are still successfully performed on its stage.
The prestigious Golden Mask theater award marked such performances that you can see in the Bolshoi Theater's repertoire such as the performances The Queen of Spades, The Adventures of the Hang, The Flying Dutchman and others.
You can find out the repertoire of the new theater season of the Bolshoi Theater on its official website, where the theater’s work schedule is given for the whole year. The first performance, which will open the new season on September 6, is the two-act opera Don Giovanni, which will present the famous Milanese La Scala theater to the court of the sophisticated theater audience in Moscow. The premiere of this performance in his homeland, in Italy, took place only in mid-December 2011. The symphony orchestra of this theater will also give a separate concert, which will take place on September 9.
It seems that the Bolshoi Theater with the opening of the main stage has found a second wind. Already in September, the audience will see three premieres. It will be an opera for a reader, two soloists, a chorus and a chamber orchestra "Francis" composer Sergei Nevsky, an opera in four acts "Enchantress" Pyotr Tchaikovsky and "Jewels" - George Balanchine's ballet in three parts.
