The Bright Stream
Ballets

The Bright Stream

November 6, 2016 at 04:00 PM

2h30

1 intermission


Synopsis

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening…

Presentation

Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash.Captured live on Apr 29, 2012Bookings in the US and Canada: www.bolshoiballetincinema.comBookings in the UK: www.bolshoiballetcinema.co.ukPlease see map below for our other partners worldwide.

Choreography

Alexei Ratmansky

Music

Dmitri Shostakovich


Cast

Zina

Svetlana Lunkina

Pyotr

Mikhail Lobukhin

the Ballerina

Maria Alexandrova

the Ballet Dancer

Ruslan Skvortsov

the Accordionist

Denis Savin

the Old Dacha Dweller

Alexei Loparevich


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