Bolshoi, Encore Showing
With its jazzy score by Shostakovich and its music-hall atmosphere featuring beautiful tangos, The Golden Age is a refreshing and colourful dive into the roaring 20’s.
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Starring: Nina Kaptsova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Mikhail Lobukhin, Ekaterina Krysanova
In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer “Mademoiselle Margot”, but also the love interest of the local gangster Yashka…
This is a historic ballet that can be seen only at the Bolshoi!
Note. This screening was captured live on 16 October 2016
(2hr 20min)