BOLSHOI THEATER BALLET FINISHES ITS U.S. AND MEXICO TOUR
RIA Novosti, Russia
Nov 14 2004
MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti’s writer Natalia Kurova) The Bolshoi
Theater ballet is finishing its six-week U.S. (Boston and Chicago)
and Mexico tour, the first one in over 30 years. Raymonda ballet is
closing the tour in Chicago on Sunday.
The Bolshoi performed its modern version of Romeo and Juliet as well
as classical Raymonda, Giselle, and Don Quixote ballets.
“Through all the six weeks and over 40 performances, the house was
overcrowded,” director general of the Bolshoi Theater Anatoly Iksanov
told RIA Novosti exclusively, “In Mexico, newspapers wrote it must
have been the Lord himself who had sent the Bolshoi ballet to the
Mexican audience. Of course we are pleased with the result of the
tour, but most of all I am happy about landslide success of the Romeo
and Juliet, a ballet that produced controversial remarks among the
Russian public. On returning back to Russia, we will make a tour of
Russian regions and post-Soviet countries.”
According to Iksanov, on November 21-23 there would be three gala
concerts in Tajik capital Dushanbe; in May the Bolshoi’s ballet
company will perform in Armenian capital Yerevan, while in January
2006, the ballet will move to Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia.
In Moscow, he added, the ballet will begin rehearsing A Midsummer
Night’s Dream with renowned American choreographer John Neumeier.
