Bolshoi Theater has confirmed resignation of one of the ballet company stars, internationally acclaimed prima ballerina Maria Alexandrova. The resignation was voluntary, it said.
«On January 19, 2017, People’s Artist of Russia Maria Alexandrova filed a request for voluntary resignation,» a spokesperson for the theater said. «This was Ms. Alexandrova’s personal decision.»
Ballet and Orchestra Tour, London 2016
The Bolshoi Ballet ‘brand’ was born sixty years ago during the Company’s first foreign tour. The tour was to London and the date was 1956. The Bolshoi Ballet appeared at The Royal Opera House where the ovations brought the house down and aroused a second wave of interest in ballet in general and in Russian ballet, in particular (the stimulus for the first wave was, of course, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes). It was the 1956 tour which made the Company’s name and won for it worldwide recognition.
Création au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées à Paris
mise en scène et chorégraphie Blanca Li
12 représentations du 22 décembre 2015 au 3 janvier 2016