About Us

All the Bolshoi Companies, including the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet and the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, will be taking part in the tour. There will be a total of ten performances: four — of the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky; three — of the ballet La Fille du Pharaon by Cesare Pugni; and three of the ballet Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus.

This will be the Bolshoi Opera Company’s first ever visit to China. The Bolshoi Ballet Company last appeared in Peking in 2005. However, in March 2006, artists from the Opera and Ballet Companies, accompanied by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, gave two concerts in Peking to mark the opening of the Year of Russia in China. The concerts were held in the main auditorium (seating capacity 10.000) of the Great Hall of the People.

Eugene Onegin
April 24-27, 19.30

Conductor
Alexander Polyanichko

Madame Larina
Makvala Kasrashvili (24, 26)
Irina Rubtsova (25, 27)

Tatiana, her daughter
Yekaterina Shcherbachenko (24, 26)
Anna Kraynikova (25, 27)

Olga, her daughter
Margarita Mamsirova (24, 26)
Svetlana Shilova (25, 27)

Filippievna, the nurse
Irina Udalova (24, 26)
Nina Romanova (25, 27)

Eugene Onegin
Vladislav Sulimsky (24, 26)
Ales Jenis (25, 27)

Vladimir Lensky
Roman Shulakov (24, 26)
Andrew Goodwin (25, 27)

Prince Gremin
Mikhail Kazakov (24, 26)
Alexander Naumenko (25, 27)

Zaretsky
Valery Gilmanov
La Fille du Pharaon
April 30 — May 2, 19.30

Aspicia
Svetlana Zakharova (30, 2)
Natalia Osipova (1)

Lord Wilson/Taor
Ruslan Skvortsov (30, 2)
Artem Ovcharenko (1) — debut

John Bull
Denis Medvedev

Ramze
Anastasia Yatsenko (30, 2)
Nina Kaptsova (1)

A Fisherman
Andrei Merkuriev (30, 1)
Artem Ovcharenko (2)

The Fisherman’s Wife
Nina Kaptsova (30, 2)
Anastasia Yatsenko (1)

Guadalquivir
Yekaterina Krysanova
Congo
Anna Nikulina
Neva
Olga Stebletsova (30, 2)
Viktoria Osipova (1) — debut


Conductor
Pavel Klinichev

Don Quixote
May 3-5, 19.30

Kitri
Natalia Osipova (3)
Yekaterina Krysanova (4)
Svetlana Zakharova (5)

Basilio
Ivan Vasiliev (3)
Andrei Merkuriev (4)
Alexander Volchkov(5)

Don Quixote
Ilya Vorontsov

Sancho Panza
Sergei Minakov

Gamache
Denis Savin

Juanita, Piccilia
Viktoria Osipova (3, 5)
Olga Stebletsova (3, 5)
Chinara Alizade (4)
Anna Tikhomirova (4)

Espada
Artem Shpilevsky

A Street Dancer
Anastasia Yatsenko

Conductor
Pavel Klinichev