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    television documentary Strictly Bolshoi followed Wheeldon as he became the first Englishman to be invited to create a new work for the Bolshoi Ballet. In the...
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  • Category Winner Television network Country Arts Documentary Strictly Bolshoi Channel 4 United Kingdom Comedy Kombat Opera Presents BBC Two United Kingdom...
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  • Simon Schama's Power of Art: Bernini  United Kingdom BBC 2008 (36th) Strictly Bolshoi Channel 4 2009 (37th) The Mona Lisa Curse Channel 4 2010 (38th) The...
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    Ruslan Skvortsov (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    premiere) Dream of Dream (choreography: Jorma Elo; world premiere) Strictly Bolshoi, Bolshoi Ballet, 2007 (documentary includes a complete performance of Christopher...
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  • ( Germany) (ZDF) Wait for the Birth of the Husband ( China) (CCTV-6) Strictly Bolshoi ( United Kingdom) (Channel 4) Nara Leão: All My Life ( Brazil) (Rede...
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  • Waltz Orkater / AVRO Television  Netherlands Smile NHK  Japan 2008 Strictly Bolshoi Ballet Boyz / Channel 4  United Kingdom Nara Leão: All My Life Por...
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    Svetlana Lunkina (category Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers)
    Tsiskaridze, Ilze Liepa, Bolshoi Theatre, 2005 Passacaille (choreography by Roland Petit), Bolshoi Theatre, 2005 Strictly Bolshoi (documentary includes a...
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    Russian actress. Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading actress of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was awarded the title of...
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  • Phoebus are happily reunited. Jules Perrot for the Imperial Ballet. Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2 January 1849. Revived especially for...
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    Concerto No. 2 in 1901. Rachmaninoff went on to become conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre from 1904–1906, and relocated to Dresden, Germany, in 1906. He...
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  • woman to conduct an orchestra at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, breaking the barriers of what so far was a strictly male area of expertise. She conducted...
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    La Bayadère (category Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg)
    La Bayadère was first presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1877...
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    critical acclaim for her Carmen in Spoleto; she repeated the role at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1963, and at the New York City Opera in 1964 (opposite Richard...
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    a Russian dancer and choreographer who had started his career at the Bolshoi Theatre, was appointed Maître de ballet at the Paris Opera. Clustine's...
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    concert-pianist after World War I. On the strength of his Mamontov appearances, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow engaged Chaliapin, and he appeared there regularly from...
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  • 1974) was a Soviet opera singer, mezzo-soprano, a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theatre (1923–1953), who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s,...
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    Petersburg/Leningrad. Ballet was popular with the public. Both the Moscow-based Bolshoi and the St. Petersburg (then Leningrad)-based Kirov ballet companies were...
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    He was a junior conductor at the Bolshoi from 1923 to 1928, and then director 1943–1948. As a conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, he is credited with having...
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    1982), and of a 2009 live performance by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky with the Bolshoi Orchestra can be heard on John Berky's website. The new edition by Paul...
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  • to share their experiences with him. He also stood backstage to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Aronofsky...
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    image of the Greek god Apollo driving a Quadriga on the portico of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on the 100 ₽ banknote constitutes pornography that should...
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    uncanny." Journalist Sid Lowe wrote, "Zidane was football's answer to the Bolshoi Ballet. Zidane was elegance above all else." In 2005, upon Zidane's return...
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    Ricordi and the conductor Arturo Toscanini, he was forced to write a second, strictly censored version that followed Puccini's sketches more closely, to the...
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    The principal solo parts were performed by notable opera singers of the Bolshoi Theatre. The film was well received by critics and viewers. In 1972, Zweites...
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    ballet school, Moscow State Academy of Choreography, commonly known as The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, was founded during Catherine's reign on 23 December 1773...
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    Free Productions, BBC Studios, FX Network for BBC) Hamza Yassin - Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey (Silverback Films for BBC) Children's Program A Kind of Spark...
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  • companies around the world including La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. He has been awarded several prestigious dance prizes...
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    the score to the censorship agency in order to get an approval for the Bolshoi Theatre. It was returned unedited, yet suddenly taken back the next day...
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    Song of the Heart" to the poem by Rasul Rza. It was performed in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in the presence of Joseph Stalin in the same year. Garayev conducted...
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    needed] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky criticised Berlioz's arrangement in the Bolshoi Theatre production of 1873 as "utterly incongruous", "tasteless" and "silly"...
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