It is Russia's most famous opera house, where Tchaikovsky premiered Swan Lake, where Russia's premier ballet dancers and symphony musicians are judged for their technical excellence and revered for ...

Yuri Grigorovich at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 1985 during a Bolshoi tour - Robert Pearce/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was ...

(Reuters) -Russian ballet maestro Yuri Grigorovich, considered one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, has died at the age of 98, the Bolshoi Theatre said on Monday. Grigorovich, ...

The head of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre was fired Tuesday after months of controversy following an acid attack on its ballet director that has stained the reputation of the famed theater. Anatoly Iksanov ...

The prima ballerina at Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Ballet has decided to leave the country in protest of its invasion of Ukraine. Olga Smirnova first spoke out against the invasion earlier this ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Bolshoi Theater reopens on Friday with a star-studded gala performance after a more than six-year, $700-million restoration dogged by delays and financial scandal to ...

Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin points at boxes containing his archives as his wife, Russian ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya, watches Russian ballet dancer Maya Plisetskaya with her husband Rodion ...

Dedicated to Ukraine, Alexei Ratmansky’s evening-length ballet “The Art of the Fugue” is both dispassionately unsentimental and profoundly moving. By Roslyn Sulcas He drew on Russian literature for ...