September 14 - the 239 theatre season at the Bolshoi Theatre will open with a production of the opera "Boris Godunov" Historic Stage - rehearsal day New Stage - rehearsal day A welcoming reception for the Bolshoi Ballet artists was organized in Saratoga Springs (USA) during the company's guest performances Ekaterina Shipulina, Bolshoi Theatre's prima ballerina, will perform the main part in the ballet "Anna Karenina" staged by the St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet. A rehearsal. Photo: Evgeny Matveev, the press-office of the St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet Mass media about the Theatre Bolshoi Theatre in the Internet Newsletter

August, 2 1 2014 Newsletter

August, 2 1 2014 , 7 For articles published 19 august 2014 New Y ork Times announces that David Hallberg, the first American who joined the Bolshoi Ballet as principal, will withdraw from dance performances until 2015 due to injury. Gramilano.com publishes a similar story. In a review of 'Cinderella' at the Royal Opera House, Financial Times writes that "Diana Vishneva and Nadezhda Batoeva danced superbly", but the ballet by Ratmansky is "mediocre". Theartsdesk.com says in a review that 'Cinderella' is "a brash, strident, but ultimately likeable close to the season". The Independent is giving four stars to 'Cinderella' and says that it is "a happy whirlwind of speed and precision" and also that "Anastasia Matvienko holds the ballet together".
Cinemas from Australia are announcing the new season with live broadcasting of four Bolshoi ballets: 'The Legend of Love', 'The Nutcracker', 'Swan Lake' and 'Ivan the Terrible' in 2014/2015. American cinemas also announce the new season of the „incredible and electric Bolshoi Ballet" with the premieres of 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Swan Lake', 'The Legend of Love' and 'The Nutcracker' starting 26 October 2014. V arious German and also Eastonian cinemas are announcing the live premiere of 'The Legend of Love' on 26 October 2014. Rebecca Sciapi, a 14-year old student at the Bolshoi Ballet School says in an interview for quotidiano.it that the Bolshoi school "is the highest point that you can reach", but it is "too bad that in the corps de ballet dancers are only Russian-born".
In brief T atarstan Days of Culture started in Moscow As the Permanent Representative Office of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation announces, the Tatarstan Days of Culture started in Moscow on August

20. For five days, Moscow citizens and guests of the Russian capital will have a chance to visit numerous meetings, where they will be able to familiarize themselves with the culture, the traditions and the history of the Tatar people. The opening ceremony took place at the Moscow International House of Music. /…/

On August 22 a monument of Fuat Mansurov, a People's Artist of Russia and a Bolshoi Theatre's conductor, will be unveiled at the Troekurov Cemetery; there will also be a flower-laying ceremony at the monuments of the poet-hero Musa Cälil and the poet G. Tukai. A presentation of a documentary film entitled "Inglorious Heroes of the Unknown War", dedicated to the Tatars' participation in the First World War, will take place on the same day. Saint Petersburg mass media:

On Sunday, August 24, a concert "The War. The Music and the Word", marking the

100 anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, will take place at the Palace Square.
The concert stars: the People's Artist of the USSR Irina Bogacheva, the People's Artist of Russia Svetlana Kryuchkova, the Honored Artist of Russia Oleg Pogudin, Bolshoi Theatre's soloist Petr Migunov, the State Hermitage Orchestra (conductor - the Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Begletsov) and the Choir of the Valaam Monastery. The Honored Artist of Russia Mikhail Morozov will be the MC. The director of the concert will be Victor Vysotsky, the set designer - Yulia Goltsova. The concert will be organized with the support of the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture. Entrance: free of charge.