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<small>Anna Antonicheva as Kitri in Don Quixote; image by I.Zaharkin</small>

VICTOR HOCHHAUSER BRINGS THE BOLSHOI BALLET TO THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

JULY 19 – AUGUST 7, 2004

One of the World’s great ballet companies, the Bolshoi Ballet, comes to the Royal Opera House, London for a three-week season from July 19 – August 7, 2004. The company is presented by Victor Hochhauser who first brought the company to Covent Garden exactly forty years ago.

In its first major London season since1999, the company - under its newly appointed Artistic Director Alexei Ratmansy - will perform three of its most revered productions – Yuri Grigorovitch’s productions of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty and Alexei Fadeechev’s production of Don Quixote – as well as the latest acquisitions to the Bolshoi’s repertoire – a brand new take on Romeo and Juliet from British theatre director Declan Donnellan with choreography by Radu Poklitaru, and a programme of Balanchine Ballets to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the choreographer’s birth.

Public booking for the season opens in March 2004.
Further details of the season will be announced early in the New Year.