We absolutely loved our evening at the Bolshoi theatre.
The historic theatre is astounding and beautifully laid out.
The production of Sleeping Beauty was magnificent.
A wonderful way to spend an evening in Moscow.

Beautiful, out standing. I never knew I liked Ballet, but I do. It was a very memorable evening and I recommend everyone try Ballet at least once in their life.

It’s highly advisable to read the theatre’s site carefully before you book your tickets.
Information for those of our guests who never bother about extra research:
Most, if not all, theatres are on vacation in July – August; some, like our Bolshoi, are touring the world. The building, as you may well guess, it still there, it hosts other companies. This summer we had received ballet dancers from London with their controversial versions of renowned classics as well as ballet companies from around the country, they usually prefer traditional productions.
This August we expect the ballet company from Novosibirsk with ‘The Swan Lake’ and ‘The Sleeping Beauty’. Note, the latter was staged by a Spanish trailbreaker choreographer. Certain leading parts are taken by invitees from the Mikhailovsky theatre in Petersburg – the two theatres have one and the same art director.
Meanwhile the Bolshoi ballet company has just returned from a triumph in Australia and is heading to London with ever-green hits like ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘The Swan Lake’, the funny Soviet piece ‘Bright Stream’, which I enjoy immensely, and, of course, its flagship production since the ‘60s: ‘Spartacus’.
I suppose you booked the tickets before the cast was announced; anyway, this is my ‘dream team’:
‘Spartacus’ – Mikhail Loboukhin, ever and forever; his evil counterpart – Artemy Belyakov. Igor Tsvirko will be a good choice for the entertaining ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘The Bright Stream’.
Ladies: Olga Smirnova in ‘The Swan Lake’, Ekaterina Krysanova in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘The Bright Stream’. And, of course, ‘la prima assoluta’ Svetlana Zakharova, any title or part.
And look for Denis Savin, he doesn’t do ‘ballet princes’, still, he is a genius, whatever else he does.
You can check my previous photos to see how they all look.
The Bolshoi is opening the new season September 2019 with ‘Eugene Onegin’, a modern production, unanimously scolded. The whole schedule is on the site, until December. Make sure you book seats for ‘Ivan The Terrible’, it seldom appears on stage these days.
Note: the Bolshoi sysadmins had just told me that if you see ‘no tickets’ for the dates months ahead, it doesn’t really mean they are sold out. It means ‘no tickets yet’, come back and check the sale schedule!