Moscow's Most Prestigeous Tourist Attractions "BOLSHOI BALLET THEATRE"

Bolshoi Theatre is a reference, this means that it derives from a stable of productions, any one of which needs to be done on a specific night. It presents usually between two and four of the new Opera Ballet production of each season or retire, and a similar number. It consists fashion collections and for most of the production in the workshops of the Bolshoi. And directs the performance in the first place of the Bolshoi ballet and opera companies and ordinary, with the performance of the guest in some cases. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and there were few attempts to reduce dependence on traditional theater to the big state subsidies. Corporate sponsorship is done for some products, but state support is still the lifeblood of the company.

Bolshoi has been associated from its beginnings with ballet. For the first time, Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake in the theater at Saturday, March 4, 1877. Other staples of reference include the Bolshoi and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Adam, Romeo and Juliet to Prokofiev, and Khachaturian's Spartacus. After the death of Stalin, and became global companies from the Bolshoi toured an important source of cultural status, as well as foreign currency earnings, and as a result "Bolshoi Ballet" has become a well known name in the West. However, the Bolshoi has suffered losses through a series of defections from the dancers. It was the first occurrence in the August 23, 1979, with Alexander Godunov, followed by Leonid Kozlov and Valentina Kozlova on September 16, 1979, and other cases in the following years. Bolshoi difference relevant to continue to tour regularly in the era after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The company specializes in opera classic Russian opera Boris Godunov, such as Mussorgsky, and Glinka of the life of Caesar, and the bride, Rimsky-Korsakov the Tsar, as well as the operas of Tchaikovsky. Are also implementing many of the composers of Western opera, and works from private Italian composers such as Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini. Until the mid-1990s, most soap operas were sung in foreign, but the Italian was listening to other languages more frequently at the Bolshoi Theatre in recent years.

And close the main building of the Bolshoi for the restoration in 2005 and put in originally to open in 2009 or early 2010. S as scheduled in late 2009, and this has been postponed to 2011.It 'to open on October 2, 2011 with the premiere of the Opera in Glinka.And will restore and reform the institution Brickwork. It is intended to restore the renewal of the original sound of the theater, which is largely lost as a result of renovations during the Soviet era. [8] inside the theater, the entire area was stripped from the bottom to the top, and the 19 th century wooden fixtures, silver curtain theater and French-made red velvet banquettes remove fixed in specialized workshops. At the very top of the facade, installed a two-headed eagle of the Russian coat of arms in the original place where the Soviet Union hammer and sickle on hold for several decades.