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July 25–27 David H. Koch Theater

Bolshoi Ballet

SpartacusBallet in three acts

Music Aram Khachaturyan

Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich

after the novel by Raffaello Giovagnolli

and a scenario by Nikolai Volkov

Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich

Design by Simon Virsaladze

Bolshoi Orchestra

Conductor Pavel Klinichev

July 7–August 16, 2014

LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2014 SPARTACUS

July 25, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.

Spartacus

Spartacus, leader of the Gladiators: Mikhail LobukhinCrassus, leader of the Roman Army: Alexander VolchkovAegina, courtesan: Svetlana ZakharovaPhrygia, sweetheart to Spartacus: Anna NikulinaGladiator: Denis Savin

MIMESChinara Alizade, Bruna Cantanhede Gaglianone, Yanina Parienko,Anna Rebetskaya, Anna Tikhomirova, Maria Zharkova, Alexei Matrakhov,Roman Simachev, Egor Sharkov, Vasily Zhidkov

THREE SHEPHERDSDenis Medvedev, Alexander Smoliyaninov, Igor Tsvirko

FOUR SHEPHERDSVitaly Biktimirov, Egor Khromushin, Anton Savichev, Alexander Vodopetov

SHEPHERDESSESSvetlana Gnedova, Alesya Gradova, Daria Khokhlova, Yulia Lunkina, Svetlana Pavlova

COURTESANSAnna Antropova, Anna Balukova, Yulia Grebenshchikova, Kristina Karasyova, Anna Nakhapetova, Oxana Sharova, Maria Zharkova


July 26, 2014, at 8:00 p.m.

Spartacus

Spartacus, Leader of the Gladiators: Denis RodkinCrassus, leader of the Roman Army: Vladislav LantratovAegina, courtesan: Ekaterina KrysanovaPhrygia, sweetheart to Spartacus: Maria VinogradovaGladiator: Anton Savichev

MIMESChinara Alizade, Bruna Cantanhede Gaglianone,Yanina Parienko, Anna Rebetskaya, Anna Tikhomirova, Maria Zharkova, Batyr Annadurdyev, Anton Kondratov, Egor Sharkov, Dmitri Zhuk

THREE SHEPHERDSAlexei Matrakhov, Alexander Smoliyaninov, Igor Tsvirko

FOUR SHEPHERDSVitaly Biktimirov, Evgeny Golovin, Egor Khromushin, Alexander Vodopetov

SHEPHERDESSESSvetlana Gnedova, Alesya Gradova, Daria Gurevich, Daria Khokhlova, Yulia Lunkina

COURTESANSAnna Antropova, Anna Balukova, Yulia Grebenshchikova, Kristina Karasyova, Anna Nakhapetova, Oxana Sharova, Maria Zharkova


July 27, 2014, at 2:00 pm

Spartacus

Spartacus, leader of the Gladiators: Mikhail LobukhinCrassus, leader of the Roman Army: Alexander VolchkovAegina, courtesan: Svetlana ZakharovaPhrygia, sweetheart to Spartacus: Anna NikulinaGladiator: Denis Savin

MIMESChinara Alizade, Bruna Cantanhede Gaglianone, Yanina Parienko, Anna Rebetskaya, Anna Tikhomirova, Maria Zharkova, Alexei Matrakhov, Roman Simachev, Egor Sharkova, Vasily Zhidkov

THREE SHEPHERDSDenis Medvedev, Alexander Smoliyaninov, Igor Tsvirko

FOUR SHEPHERDSVitaly Biktimirov, Egor Khromushin, Anton Savichev, Alexander Vodopetov

SHEPHERDESSESSvetlana Gnedova, Alesya Gradova, Daria Khokhlova, Yulia Lunkina, Svetlana Pavlova

COURTESANSAnna Antropova, Anna Balukova, Yulia Grebenshchikova, Kristina Karasyova,Anna Nakhapetova, Oxana Sharova, Maria Zharkova


Act I, Scene 1Imperial Rome’s army, led by Crassus, wages a cruel campaign of conquest, destroyingeverything in its path. Among the chained prisoners doomed to slavery are Spartacus andPhrygia. Spartacus is in despair. Born a free man, he is now a slave in chains.

Scene 2The Slave Market. Slave dealers separate the men and women prisoners before they aresold to the rich Romans. Spartacus and Phrygia are separated. Phrygia is overcome withgrief as she thinks of the ordeal ahead.

Scene 3Crassus’ Palace. Mimes and courtesans entertain the guests by making fun of Crassus’new slave, Phrygia. Aegina draws Crassus into a frenzied dance. Drunk with wine andpassion, Crassus demands a spectacle: two gladiators are to fight to their deaths in hel-mets with closed visors. When the first gladiator falls, the victor’s helmet is removed. Itis Spartacus.

Forced to murder a compatriot, Spartacus’ despair evolves into anger. He will no longertolerate captivity and his only course of action is to win back his freedom.

Scene 4The Gladiators’ Barracks. Spartacus incites the gladiators to revolt. They swear an oath ofloyalty to him and break out of the barracks to freedom.

Intermission

Act II, Scene 1Having escaped captivity, Spartacus and his followers find themselves on the AppianWay, Spartacus’ followers call upon the area’s shepherds to join the uprising. The shep-herds and the rest of the population proclaim Spartacus as their leader.The thought of Phrygia’s fate as a slave causes Spartacus deep unrest. He is haunted bycontinual memories of her.

Scene 2Spartacus’ search for Phrygia leads him to Crassus’ villa. The reunited lovers are over-joyed, but are forced to hide due to the arrival of a procession of patricians led by Aegina.

Aegina has long dreamed of seducing and gaining power over Crassus. Her goal is to winhim over and gain legal admittance to the world of the Roman nobility.

Scene 3At his villa, Crassus celebrates his victories as the patricians sing his praises. The festiv-ities are cut short by news that Spartacus and his men have surrounded the building. The

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panic-stricken guests disperse and Crassus and Aegina flee. Spartacus breaks into thevilla, renewing his faith that the uprising will be successful.

Scene 4Spartacus’ men have taken Crassus prisoner and are intent upon killing him. However,Spartacus is not bent on revenge and suggests that the two men engage in single-handed combat. Crassus accepts the challenge but is defeated when Spartacus knocksthe sword out of his hand. Crassus prepares for death, but Spartacus lets him go. Thepublic knowledge of Crassus’ dishonor is punishment enough. The jubilant insurgentspraise Spartacus’ victory.

Intermission

Act III, Scene 1Crassus is tormented by his disgrace. Fanning his hurt pride, Aegina calls upon him totake his revenge. There is only one way to proceed: death to the insurgents. Crassussummons his legions, and Aegina sees him off to battle.

Spartacus is also Aegina’s enemy too; Crassus’ defeat would also be her downfall.Aegina devises a plan to spread unrest in Spartacus’ encampment.

Scene 2In Spartacus’ encampment Spartacus and Phrygia are happy to be reunited, but his mili-tary commanders bring the news that Crassus is approaching with a large army.Spartacus decides to engage in battle but some of his warriors are overcome by cow-ardice and desert their leader.

Scene 3Aegina infiltrates the ranks of the traitors who might still be persuaded to return toSpartacus. She and the courtesans seduce the men with wine and dance. Once she haslured the traitors into a trap, she hands them over to Crassus.

Crassus is consumed by his desire for revenge. Spartacus will pay with his life for thehumiliation he forced Crassus to undergo.

Scene 4Spartacus’ forces are surrounded by the Roman legions and his loyal followers perish inan unequal combat. He fights fearlessly up until the last moments when Roman soldiersclose in on the wounded hero and crucify him on their spears.

Phrygia, mourning her beloved, retrieves Spartacus’ body from the battlefield. Raising herarms toward the sky, she appeals to heaven that the memory of Spartacus will live forever.


About SpartacusThe libretto of Spartacus is derived from abook by Raffaello Giovagnolli that detailsevents in a first-century B.C.E Roman slaverevolt. Commonly known as the Third ServileWar it was led by Spartacus, a Thracianwarrior who was captured in battle andforced into slavery. The rebellion’s high point,both literally and figuratively, was its seizure ofMount Vesuvius as a stronghold. After twoyears of unrest, the rebellion was ultimatelyput down by Marcus Licinius Crassus, andSpartacus died in battle. The surviving rebels,numbering more than 6,000, were crucifiedalong the Appian Way.

The ballet’s story takes considerable dramaticliberties from historical fact, but captures thedistinct setting and sentiment of the time.Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian(1903-78) composed the music in 1954 andthe ballet had its world premiere in 1956 in St. Petersburg in a not-too-successful produc-tion choreographed by Leonid Yakobson forthe Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky Ballet). Theballet was first performed at the BolshoiTheatre in 1958 in a choreographic version byIgor Moiseyev (1907-2007), but it was theacclaimed 1968 production by Yuri Grigorovichfor the Bolshoi which has enjoyed the greatestnotoriety. The ballet is strongly identified withthe Bolshoi Ballet where it remains prominentin the company’s repertoire.

Bolshoi Ballet HistoryThe first permanent theater company inMoscow was established in 1776 by PrincePeter Urussov, a public prosecutor inCatherine II’s imperial government, and theEnglishman Michael Maddox. In 1780Prince Urussov built a theater on PetrovkaStreet where the company performeddrama, opera, and ballet. Twenty-five yearslater the building burned to the ground andperformances were staged at a variety ofvenues throughout the city until January

1825, when the classical-style PetrovskyTheatre was opened. Designed by OssipBovet and Andrei Mikhailov, the buildingwas fronted by eight Doric columns, itsportico surmounted by a bronze Apollodriving his four-horse chariot. The dramacompany moved to the newly opened MalyTheatre while the Bolshoi PetrovskyTheatre devoted itself to the production ofopera and ballet. At that time the ballet wascomprised of only 47 dancers. In 1853 fireagain destroyed the interior of the theater.The building was restored by the Venetianarchitect Alberto Cavos (son of the com-poser Caterino Cavos and grandfather ofrenowned designer and painter AlexanderBenois) and reopened its doors in 1856.Today the Bolshoi is considered the princi-pal national theater of the Russian Federation,and employs nearly 3,000 people, includingits famed opera company and a ballet com-prised of more than 200 dancers.

EARLY CHOREOGRAPHERSThe first ballets to be produced were by thegreat French and Italian ballet masters includ-ing Filippo Beccari, the Morelli brothers, andJean Lamirat. Soon Russian choreographerstook over and concentrated on ballets withRussian themes. From 1820 to 1830 thecompany expanded to 150 dancers, devel-oped in the French tradition under the influ-ence of Felicite-Virginie Hullin-Sor and FannyElssler, who familiarized the Moscow publicwith the ballets of Jules Perrot.

During the 1840s the opera companystaged the first productions of Glinka’s IvanSusanin and Ruslan and Ludmila, workswhich marked the foundation of a trulynational school of composition in Russia.Of equal importance to the history of bothballet and opera was the legacy of PyotrIlyich Tchaikovsky, many of whose worksreceived their first performance at the theater,including the operas Eugene Onegin, TheQueen of Spades, and the ballet Swan Lake.


St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre in the sec-ond half of the 19th century, there followed aperiod of rivalry between the two companies.A contrast became apparent between thedance styles favored by audiences inMoscow and St. Petersburg. This disparitywas exemplified by Petipa’s ballet DonQuixote, which received its premiere inMoscow on December 26, 1869, in aboldly conceived, colorful production which,when restaged in St. Petersburg two yearslater, was transformed into a far more clas-sically conceived work.

Alexander Gorsky, Petipa’s assistant andpupil, was appointed to the Bolshoi Theatrein 1900, and from then until his death in1924 he revised the company’s stagings ofthe basic repertoire, making them moredramatic and realistic. Under Gorsky thecompany found its true identity. Adheringto the naturalist principles of the theaterdirector Konstantin Stanislavsky, he cre-ated several original ballets that includedNotre-Dame de Paris in 1902 based on thenovel by Victor Hugo, and Salammbo in 1910after the novel by Flaubert. In 1900 hebrought back into the repertoire Petipa’s DonQuixote, followed by La Fille mal gardée in1903, Swan Lake and Giselle in 1911, LeCorsaire in 1912, and La Bayadère in 1917.

SOVIET ERAFollowing the 1917 October Revolution,Moscow became the capital of the SovietUnion and debate raged as to the functionof the arts within a Socialist society. Left-wing critics demanded the removal of therepertoire of works by bourgeois com-posers such as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov in a mission to educate the publicwith new ideas. More moderate voicesprevailed and during the early Soviet periodtraditional 19th-century operas and balletswere performed alongside contemporaryworks. Alexander Gorsky was chargedwith reorganizing the company and was

succeeded in 1924 by Vassily Tikhomirovas director of ballet, who was instrumentalin developing the Bolshoi style during thenext decades.

WAR YEARS AND FIRST VISIT OUTSIDERUSSIAWith the invasion of Russia by Germanforces in 1941, the Bolshoi Ballet and Operawere evacuated to Kuibyshev on the Volga,where they remained until August 1943. Theballet was under the charge of LeonidLavrovsky who was given the task of re-establishing the company during the post-war years of deprivation and reconstruction.In 1945 Prokofiev’s Cinderella received itsfirst performance with Olga Lepeshinskaya inthe title role. Nine years later the same com-poser’s The Stone Flowerwas given its worldpremiere. One of Lavrovsky’s most signifi-cant achievements was to administer theBolshoi Ballet’s first appearance in the Westin 1956 at London’s Covent Garden, followeda year later by a tour to New York City.

POST-WAR CHOREOGRAPHERS,DANCERS, AND ORCHESTRALavrovsky continued as director of ballet until1964, when he was succeeded as chiefchoreographer and artistic director by YuriGrigorovich, whose years at the Bolshoi werecharacterized by a series of large-scale, highlyspectacular productions. He transferred to theTheatre some of his productions first pre-sented in St. Petersburg: The Stone Flowerand The Legend of Love; created master-pieces including Spartacus (1968) and Ivan theTerrible (1975); and his own versions of SwanLake, La Bayadère, Raymonda, and Giselle.Maya Plisetskaya, Natalia Bessmertnova,Mikhail Lavrovsky, Ekaterina Maximova,Vladimir Vasiliev, Nina Timofeyeva, and MarisLiepa were among the great principal dancersin his company. The majority of his produc-tions remain in the company’s repertoiretoday. Grigorovich served as artistic directorand principal choreographer from 1964–95.


In 1995 Vladimir Vasiliev took over as artis-tic director of the Bolshoi Theatre, withAlexei Fadeyechev as the artistic directorof the Ballet from 1998–2000. Fadeyechevwas succeeded by Boris Akimov in 2000,

Alexei Ratmansky in 2003, and Yuri Burlakain 2009. In 2011 Sergei Filin, who was for-merly a principal dancer with the company,was appointed artistic director of theBolshoi Ballet.

About the BolshoiTheatre StaffVladimir Urin (General Director of theBolshoi Theatre) is a graduate of the RussianAcademy of Theatre (RATI-GITIS). From 1987to 1996 he was twice elected the secre-tary of the board of the Theatre Union ofRussia, acting first as deputy president(1987–96) and later as first deputy presi-dent (1991–96). Mr. Urin created Russia’sGolden Mask National Theatre Award,which was established in 1994. He wasnamed general director of the Stanislavskyand Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow MusicTheatre in 1995. Under his leadership itbecame one of Russia’s leading theaters.Since 1997 he has been general director ofthe International Contemporary Dance Fes -tivals held by the Theatre in collaborationwith the cultural centers and embassies ofEurope, Canada, and the United States. In2013 he was appointed general director ofthe Bolshoi Theatre.

Sergey Filin (Artistic Director of theBolshoi Ballet) is a graduate of MoscowState Academic College of Choreography(Alexander Prokofiev’s class), Moscow StateInstitute of Choreography, and LomonosovMoscow State University, where he earneda B.A. in arts with distinction in 2006.Former principal dancer with the BolshoiBallet, he performed with the companyfrom 1988 to 2007, creating major roles inmore than 30 ballets of classical and mod-ern repertoire. His career as a dancer wasdistinguished by numerous internationaland national awards. He was named aPeople’s Artist of Russia in 2001. From

2008 to 2011 he was artistic director ofballet for the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. Hewas appointed artistic director of theBolshoi Ballet in 2011.

Yuri Grigorovich (Ballet Master/Choreo -grapher) is one of today’s leading Russianchoreographers. Born in St. Petersburg, hetrained at the Leningrad ChoreographicSchool with Vladimir Ponomarev andAlexander Pushkin. Upon graduation hejoined the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet.Although he enjoyed a success on stage,he is best known as a choreographer. Hisfirst major works, Prokofiev's The StoneFlower (1957) and Melikov’s A Legend ofLove (1961), were choreographed for theMariinsky. In 1959 he restaged The StoneFlower for the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1964 hemoved to Moscow as chief choreographerof the Bolshoi Ballet, a position he helduntil 1995. Among his productions thathave won acclaim for the Bolshoi areSpartacus, Ivan the Terrible, The Nutcracker,Romeo and Juliet, Angara, and The GoldenAge. He also created new versions of mas-terpieces of the past including The SleepingBeauty, Swan Lake, Raymonda, La Bayadère,and Giselle. He returned to the companyas ballet master in 2008.

Galina Stepanenko (Bolshoi BalletManaging Director) graduated fromMoscow College of Choreography (SophiaGolovkina’s class). She danced with theMoscow Classical Ballet from 1984–88,Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-DanchenkoMoscow Ballet from 1988–90, and in 1990she joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company.


She has danced all the major parts of clas-sical repertoire, as well as the leading partsin ballets by Grigorovich, Lavrovsky, andBalanchine, among others. Her numerousawards include a gold medal at the 1989Moscow International Ballet Competition,the title of People’s Artist of the RussianFederation, and the 1996 State Prize ofRussia. In 2013 she was appointed theBolshoi Ballet’s managing director.

Pavel Klinichev (conductor) trained at theMoscow State Conservatory first as a choir-master, and later as a conductor. In 2001 hebecame the Bolshoi Theatre’s resident conductor. His repertoire includes many of the masterpieces of Western andRussian opera and ballet. He has also ledthe St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra,Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatory Or -chestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra,California’s Orchestra of the West and theSt. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, and Saratovsymphony orchestras. He currently teachessymphony conducting at the Moscow StateConservatory. Since the 2010–11 seasonMaestro Klinichev has served as chief con-ductor of the Ekaterinburg Opera. In 2014he was awarded Russia’s Golden Masknational theater award in the Best Con -ductor category for the Ekaterinburg OperaBallet’s Cantus Articus.

About the DancersEkaterina Krysanova (Principal Dancer)began her professional training at theLavrovsky School of Ballet. After winning agold medal at the 2001 Prix de LuxembourgInternational Ballet Competition, she wasinvited to finish her studies at the BolshoiBallet Academy. In 2003 she joined theBolshoi Ballet where she has dancedOdette/Odile, Nikia and Gamzatti, PrincessAurora and Lilac Fairy, Giselle, Kitri, Medoraand Gulnare in Le Corsaire, Sylphide, andEsmeralda. She has also danced Marie inNutcracker; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet;

Aegina in Spartacus; Luska in The GoldenAge by Yuri Grigorovich; Jeanne and Mireillede Poitiers in The Flames of Paris; TheClassical Ballerina and Zina in The BrightStream, Florine in Lost Illusions, RussianSeasons, and Jeu de Cartes by AlexeiRatmansky; Aspicia in La Fille du Pharaon andAngela in Marco Spada by Lacotte; and lead-ing parts in works by George Balanchine,Leonide Massine, Twyla Tharp, ChristopherWheeldon, and Nacho Duato. She receiveda silver medal at the 2005 Moscow Inter -national Ballet Competition in 2005 and wasawarded the title of People’s Artist of theNorthern Osetia-Alania Republic in 2013.

Anna Nikulina (Leading Soloist) graduatedfrom Moscow Choreographic Academy in2003, and that year joined the BolshoiBallet. Her repertoire with the companyincludes the parts of Odette/Odile, Giselle,Nikia, Princess Aurora and Lilac Fairy,Raymonda, Medora, Fleur de Lis in LaEsmeralda, and Queen of Dryads in DonQuixote. As well as leading roles in YuriGrigorovich’s Nutcracker (Marie), Romeo andJuliet (Juliet), Spartacus (Phrygia), and Ivan theTerrible (Anastasia); Alexei Ratmansky’s TheFlames of Paris (Adeline), Russian Seasons,and Jeu de Cartes; William Forsythe’sHerman Schmerman (Quintet); GeorgeBalanchine’s Symphony in C and ApollonMusagete (Polyhymnia); Twyla Tharp’s Inthe Upper Room; and Roland Petit’sPassacaille. She was the recipient of the2004 Triumph youth grant prize.

Maria Vinogradova (Soloist) graduatedfrom the Moscow Choreographic Academyin 2006, and the same year joined theBolshoi Ballet. Her repertoire with the Bolshoiincludes Phrygia in Spartacus and Anastasiain Ivan the Terrible by Yuri Grigorovich,Marchesa Sampietri in Marco Spada and TheFisherman’s Wife in La Fille du Pharaon byPierre Lacotte, Myrtha in Giselle, StreetDancer in Don Quixote; Russian and


Neapolitan Brides-to-be in Swan Lake, andCalliope in Balanchine’s Apollon Musagète.Her awards include a silver medal in theJunior Division at the 2005 Moscow Inter-national Ballet Competition and a gold medalin the Junior Division at the 2006 BerlinInternational Dance Festival “Dancing Olymp.”

Svetlana Zakharova (Principal Dancer) is agraduate of the Vaganova Academy ofRussian Ballet. She joined St. Petersburg’sMariinsky Ballet in 1996 and became a prin-cipal dancer the following year. She hasdanced many leading roles with theMariinsky including those in ballets byGeorge Balanchine, Michel Fokine, RostislavZakharov, Vasily Vainonen, Alexei Ratman-sky, Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier,Leonid Lavrovsky, and Harald Lander. Shejoined the Bolshoi Ballet during the2003–04 season, where she has dancedOdette/Odile; Giselle; Princess Aurora; Nikia;Kitri; Raymonda; Medora in Le Corsaire;Aegina in Grigorovich’s Spartacus; Aspicia inLacotte’s La Fille du Pharaon; MargueriteGautier in Lady of the Camellias andHyppolita/Titania in A Mid summer Night’sDream, both by Neumeier; leading roles inBalanchine’s Symphony in C (SecondMovement), Serenade, and Jewels (Dia-monds section); Ratmansky’s RussianSeasons; and La Mort in Petit’s Le JeuneHomme et la Mort. She has appeared as aguest artist with the New York City Ballet,Paris Opera Ballet, English National Ballet,Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, American BalletTheatre, La Scala Ballet, Hamburg Ballet,Bayerische Staatsballett, Berlin Staatsbal-let, and Tokyo’s New National Theatre,among others. In 2008 she was awardedthe title of People’s Artist of the RussianFederation and was named étoile at the LaScala Ballet.

Vladislav Lantratov (Principal Dancer) joinedthe Bolshoi Ballet in 2006 after completinghis studies at the Moscow Choreographic

Academy. His repertory with the Bolshoiincludes Albrecht; Solor; Basilio; Jean deBrienne in Raymonda; Phoebus and Actéonin La Esmeralda; Conrad in Le Corsaire; TheEvil Genius in Swan Lake; leading parts inGrigorovich’s Nutcracker (Nutcracker Prince),Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV), and Spartacus(Crassus); Ratmansky’s The Flames of Paris(Philippe), The Bright Stream (the BalletDancer), Lost Illusions (Lucien), RussianSeasons, and Jeu de Cartes; Cranko’sOnegin (Onegin); Neumeier’s Lady of theCamellias (Armand Duval); Balanchine’sApollon Musagète (Apollo), Serenade, andJewels (Emeralds section); and WayneMcGregor’s Chroma. He was the recipientof the 2010 Triumph youth grant prize, andin 2014 was named best male dancer byDanza&Danza magazine.

Mikhail Lobukhin (Principal Dancer) grad-uated from the Vaganova Academy ofRussian Ballet and joined the MariinskyBallet in 2002. He became a member ofthe Bolshoi in 2010, where his rolesinclude Basilio in Don Quixote; Solor in LaBayadère; Conrad in Le Corsaire; Albrechtin Giselle; Abderakhman in Raymonda; thetitle roles in Spartacus and Ivan theTerrible; Nutcracker-Prince in Nutcracker;Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet by YuriGrigorovich; Peter in The Bright Stream;Philippe in The Flames of Paris by AlexeiRatmansky; Artynov in Anyuta by VladimirVasiliev; Gaston Rieux in Lady of theCamellias by John Neumeier; Toreodor inCarmen Suite by Alberto Alonso; and thepas de deux in Herman Schmerman byWilliam Forsythe. He received a gold medalat the 2002 Vaganova-prix InternationalBallet Com petition and was nominated fora Golden Sofit Award in 2008.

Denis Rodkin (First Soloist) graduatedfrom the Choreographic College of MoscowTheatre of Dance Gzhel in 2009 and joinedthe Bolshoi Ballet that year. His repertoire

PRINCIPALSMaria AlexandrovaSemyon ChudinDavid HallbergEkaterina KrysanovaVladislav LantratovMikhail LobukhinArtem OvcharenkoAlexander VolchkovSvetlana Zakharova

LEADING SOLOISTSKristina KretovaAnna NikulinaOlga Smirnova

FIRST SOLOISTSAnna AntropovaVitaly BiktimirovDenis MedvedevDenis RodkinDenis SavinAnna Tikhomirova

SOLOISTSChinara AlizadeArtemy BelyakovYulia GrebenshchikovaKristina KarasyovaDaria KhokhlovaEgor KhromushinAlexei Loparevich

Yulia LunkinaYanina ParienkoAnna RebetskayaAnton SavichevIgor TsvirkoMaria Vinogradova

CORPS DE BALLETIvan AlexeyevBatyr AnnadurdyevNino AsatianiXenia AverinaAnna BalukovaAnna BaranovaOlga BarichkaEkaterina BesedinaDaria BochkovaVera BorisenkovaAnastasia DenisovaSergey DievDmitry DorokhovKlim EfimovDmitry EfremovLiudmila ErmakovaAlexander FadeyechevIvan FilchevNatalia FokinaBruna CantanhedeGaglianone Alexei GainutdinovSvetlana GnedovaEvgeny Golovin

Mariana GomesAlesya GradovaAnna GrigorievaAnastasia GubanovaDaria GurevichElvina IbraimovaArsen KarakozovAngelina KarpovaElena KasiyanovaPyotr KazmirukMikhail KemenovKirill KireyevOlga KlypinaMikhail KochanVictoria KochkinaAnton KondratovAlexei KostinElizaveta KrutelevaMikhail KryuchkovKonstantin KuzminSergey KuzminKristina LosevaSophia LyubimovaOlga MarchenkovaAlexei MatrakhovVictor MeshcherekovAnna NakhapetovaMaxim OppengeymYuri OstrovskyElena PaninaSvetlana PavlovaZakhar Potapov

Alexandra RakitinaAlevtina RudinaAndrei RybakovEvgeny SazonovIvan SemirechenskyIrina SerenkovaEkaterina SeryodkinaEgor SharkovOxana SharovaMikhail ShelamovAnastasia ShilovaMargarita ShrainerEgor SimachevRoman SimachevAlexander SmoliyaninovKirill SobolevDmitry StarshinovMaxim SurovErick SwolkinAlexei TedeyevEvgeny TruposkiadiRoman TselishchevOlga TubalovaAna TurazashviliDmitry UmnikovAlexander VodopetovAnna VoronkovaIlya VorontsovSergei ZelenkoMaria ZharkovaVasily ZhidkovDmitri Zhuk


Bolshoi Ballet

with the Bolshoi includes Prince Siegfriedand The Evil Genius; Jean de Brienne inRaymonda; Espada in Don Quixote; leadingroles in Grigorovich’s Spartacus (title role),Ivan the Terrible (Prince Kurbsky), andRomeo and Juliet (Count Paris); Lacotte’sLa Fille du Pharaon (Lord Wilson/ Taor);Ratmansky’s The Flames of Paris (AntoineMistral); and Neumeier’s Lady of theCamellias (Gaston Rieux).

Alexander Volchkov (Principal Dancer)graduated from the Moscow Ballet Schooland joined the Bolshoi Ballet in 1997. Hisrepertoire with the Bolshoi includes PrinceSiegfried in Swan Lake, Jean de Brienne inRaymonda, Prince Desire in The Sleeping

Beauty, Albrecht in Giselle, Basilio in DonQuixote, Solor in La Bayadère, Conrad in LeCorsaire, and Phoebus in La Esmeralda, aswell as principal roles in Yuri Grigorovich’sNutcracker (Nutcracker-Prince), Spartacus(Crassus), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Ivanthe Terrible (Ivan IV), The Legend of Love(Ferkhad) and The Golden Age (Boris),Alexei Ratmansky’s The Flames of Paris(Philippe) and Lost Illusions (The FirstDancer), John Cranco’s Onegin (title role),Balanchine’s Symphony in C (SecondMovement Soloist), Jewels (Diamonds andEmeralds sections), Agon (pas de deux),Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris(Phoebus), and John Neumeier’s A Midsum-mer Night’s Dream (Lysander).


FIRST VIOLINSAlexander KalashkovInna LiAlexander MayborodaLyubov KalashnikovaElena IzachikOlga KochnevaLada MalykhinaEkaterina NazimovaElena KulyginaDayavan Motoyama

SECOND VIOLINSVladimir KozhemyakoKsenia RozanovaMaxim MuchkinSvetlana MiklyaevaEkaterina PolikarpovaSergey BurovYulia TyulkinaElena Misyurova

VIOLASOlga ZhmaevaAlexander BalashovEkaterina KotominaElena VasilievaAlexei YanenkoDmitry Usov

CELLOSBoris LifanovskyVladimir StreltsovViktor PlutalovDarya BelyaevaDaniil Men

DOUBLE BASSESGennadi BorisovSergei KornienkoGurgen OganesyanPavel SablinLeonid Smelov

FLUTESNatalia BereslavtsevaEkaterina HofmanElena Mitrofanova

OBOESSergei LysenkoEvgeny AleshinIgor Chemerichenko

CLARINETSSergei VlasovDenis BokarevNikolai Sokolov

BASSOONSAndrei LokalenkovVladimir Semus

KEYBOARDNadezhda Demyanova

HARPSAnna LevinaNina Ryabchinenko

FRENCH HORNSAlexei RaevAndrei FerapontovAlexei KanarevAlexei RynzinAdik Fatkullin

TRUMPETSAndrei KlevtsovEvgeny GurievAlexander SkvortsovDenis ProvkinNikolai Pavlov

TROMBONESDmitry ZheleznovYakov BraginAlexander Zhigankov

TUBAAlexander Zhbanov

PERCUSSIONKonstantin SemenovGennadi ButovAlexei UsovAlexander YurasovDmitry Kozhemyako

ORCHESTRA MANAGING DIRECTORAlexander Shanin

ORCHESTRAADMINISTRATIONEvgenia Shchukina

SHEET MUSIC LIBRARYBoris Kochergin

ORCHESTRA STAGECREWGayar AbdryakhimovAlexei Efanov

Bolshoi Orchestra

Bolshoi Theatre StaffGeneral Director of the Bolshoi TheatreVladimir Urin

Deputy General Director and Tour LeaderAnton Getman

Music Director and Chief ConductorTugan Sokhiev

Artistic Director of the Bolshoi BalletSergey Filin

Bolshoi Ballet Managing Director Galina Stepanenko

Head of the Bolshoi Touring Division andTour Leader Elena Perfilova

Public Relations Katerina NovikovaTour Managers Anna Kovtun, Ekaterina Kraynova, Tatiana Sidorova

Conductors Pavel Klinichev, Pavel SorokinBallet Administration Veronika Sanadze

Coaches Svetlana Adyrkhaeva, Tatiana Krasina, Alexander Petukhov,Lyudmila Semenyaka, Alexander Vetrov

Pianists Uliana Karmadonova, Alexander Ksendzovsky, Svetlana Levina

Doctor Igor LukiyanchenkoMasseurs Yuri Gorbunov, Sergey IvanovStage Manager Vladimir ShcherbakovTechnical Director Sergey TimoninAssistant to the Technical DirectorAnastasia Pilnikova

Stage Hands Alexander Komissarov(Deputy Head), Sergey Bukhantsev,Dmitry Lukhmanov, Soslan Margiev,Mikhail Mineev, Vladimir Tyurin

Props Yana Podyacheva (Head),Olga Demina, Oleg Korobochkin, David Divoev


Special Effects Akhtyam KuramshinLighting Designers Mikhail Sokolov,Ayvar Salikhov

Lighting Engineers Sergey Grafov, Alexei Melnikov, Arkady Medvedev,Nelli Tyurina

Wardrobe Daniil Aldoshin (Deputy Head)Female Wardrobe Nadezhda Maksimovskaya, Vera Seregina, Galina Shchedrina

Male Wardrobe Irina Rasstanaeva (Head),Rashid Alimov, Ivan Andriyanov

Shoe Division Amaliya AlekseevaMakeup Elvira Dashimova, Natalia Piyanova, Elena Strebkova,Rimma Voropaeva

The Bolshoi Theatre is represented byIMG Artists: imgartists.com.

General Sponsor of the Bolshoi TheatreCredit Suisse

Official Sponsors of the Bolshoi TheatreNestlé (Bolshoi Ballet Official Sponsor)Audemars PiguetBank of MoscowBMWGuerlainKPMGMetLifeSamsungShellTelenor

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AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to New York City BalletLighting Equipment PRG LightingTranslators Fay Greenbaum, AndreyShenin, Nina Morozova, Katya Khellblau

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Theater ManagementDirector of Operations ..................................................... Joseph Padua Technical Director ........................................................Meghan VonVettHouse Manager ................................................................Mari EckroatePerformance Manager ....................................................Lauren RosenChief Engineer ............................................................. Edward J. GebelTreasurer ..............................................................................Todd TangoAssistant Treasurer ......................................................... William HolzeMaster Carpenter ..............................................................Frank LavaiaMaster Electrician ......................................................... Thomas MaherMaster of Properties ...............................................Leonard SimoncekMaintenance Supervisor ......................................................Rafael DiazPerformance Porter ................................................... Darwin GonzalezSecurity Supervisor................................................... Clement MitchamMail Room Supervisor ........................................................Aracely Diaz

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