The magic of the Bolshoi Ballet comes to the big screen at Ster-Kinekor Nouveau. The 2017-2018 Bolshoi Ballet season presents the greatest classics restaged by today’s most celebrated choreographers, for a cinema exclusive experience featuring the Bolshoi principals and corps de ballet. Historical ballets reimagined by Alexei Ratmansky (Romeo and Juliet and The Flames of Paris) will be presented along with John Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias. Timeless classics of the Moscow stage will complete the season: Giselle and Coppélia.
The Lady of the Camellias: From 3 February 2018
Alexander Dumas’ novel comes to life on the Bolshoi stage, with prima Svetlana Zakharova as the ailing Marguerite seeking love and redemption from her life as a courtesan. The Bolshoi brings choreographer John Neumeier’s work of rare beauty and tragic depth to new emotional heights, accompanied by Chopin’s romantic piano score. As he arrives in Paris for the first time, the young and naive Armand is utterly captivated after meeting the ravishing and most desirable courtesan, Marguerite Gautier. Their encounter gives birth to a passionate, yet doomed love…
Duration: 3 hours and 05 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes
Romeo and Juliet (new production): From 3 March 2018
Alexei Ratmansky, former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, stages the company’s premiere of his production with dramatic urgency and a fresh re-telling of Shakespeare’s beloved classic. His brilliant and detailed adaptation set to Prokofiev’s romantic and cinematic score, reignites the story of literature’s most celebrated lovers like no other classical ballet choreographer today. In Verona, Romeo and Juliet fall madly in love while their respective families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are caught in a bitter rivalry ending in heart-wrenching tragedy…
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes
Giselle: From 14 April 2018
Giselle is a romantic ballet in two acts. Prima ballerina, Svetlana Zakharova, personifies this ultimate ballerina role in the classical repertoire, alongside the sensational Sergei Polunin as Albrecht, in this chilling, yet luminous ballet that continues to captivate audiences for over 150 years at the Bolshoi. When Giselle learns that her beloved Albrecht is promised to another woman, she dies of a broken heart in his arms. While Albrecht grieves, she returns from the dead as a Wili, a vengeful spirit meant to make unfaithful men dance until death…
Duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes
The Flames of Paris: From 5 May 2018
The Flames of Paris is a full-length ballet in four acts based on songs of the French Revolution. Very few ballets can properly depict the Bolshoi’s overflowing energy and fiery passion as can Alexei Ratmansky’s captivating revival of Vasily Vainonen’s The Flames of Paris. With powerful virtuosity and some of the most stunning pas de deux, the Bolshoi Ballet displays an exuberance almost too enormous for the Moscow stage. In the era of the French Revolution, Jeanne and her brother Jérôme leave Marseille for Paris in support of the revolutionary effort that is taking over the capital. While fighting for freedom, they both encounter love along the way.
Duration: 2 hours and 15 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes
Coppélia: From 4 August 2018
Closing off the season is the comic ballet Coppélia. The Bolshoi’s unique version of Coppélia exhibits a fascinating reconstruction of the original 19th century choreography of this ebullient comedy involving a feisty heroine, a boyish fiancée with a wandering eye, and an old dollmaker. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the divertissements and famous “dance of the hours,” and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humour in this effervescent production. Swanhilda notices her fiancée Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppelia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson…
Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes
Where: Cinema Nouveau Rosebank, Cinema Nouveau Brooklyn, Cinema Nouveau Gateway Commercial, Cinema Nouveau V & A Waterfront
Book: Ster-Kinekor
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