Friends booking opens on 2 March 2010 and general booking on 6 April 2010. Tickets priced between £10-97.

Spartacus
19 / 20 / 21 / 31 July at 7.30pm / 31 July at 2.00pm

Coppélia
19 / 20 / 21 / 31 July at 7.30pm / 31 July at 2.00pm

Serenade / Giselle
22 / 23 / 24 July at 7.30pm / 24 July at 2.00pm

Russian Seasons / Petrushka / Paquita
29 / 30 July at 7.30pm

Le Corsaire
2 / 3 / 4 / 5 August at 7.30pm

Don Quixote
6 / 7 August at 7.30pm / 7 August at 2.00pm / 8 August at 3.00pm

The correct dates are now known and in this post:
http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/DCForumID12/212.html#13

Edit: added link to correct dates. BM

However, they have to check and correct the dates for Spartacus and Coppélia:

Spartacus
19 / 20 / 21 / 31 July at 7.30pm / 31 July at 2.00pm

Coppélia
19 / 20 / 21 / 31 July at 7.30pm / 31 July at 2.00pm

????????????

Yes, I already noted in my post that something's wrong with the listing as the dates are identical.

Spartacus:
19/20/21/ 31

Coppelia
22/23/24

It is really unfortunate that the ROH have been failing to spot their error for days and had to be prompted to put it right by outsiders. I know that. Why can not they check properly their information before presenting it to the public?
By the way, talking about information from the ROH (although off the Bolshoi topic). When Polunin was dancing in The Nutcracker today, there was no mentioning in the programme, as it is usually being done, that he replaced Putrov who was announced earlier.

http://www.roh.org.uk/bolshoi/index.aspx

Victor Hochhauser presents
THE BOLSHOI OPERA AND BALLET AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN

19 July – 8 August 2010

Public booking opens 6 April 2010
www.roh.org.uk/bolshoi

The magnificent Bolshoi Ballet and Opera companies return for an exciting four week season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to be presented by Victor Hochhauser who first brought the Company to this country nearly fifty years ago. Now, together with the celebrated Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, there is another opportunity to see this great Company in spectacular ballet and opera productions.

BOLSHOI OPERA

‘The most intense, emotional Tchaikovsky that has ever been seen’.

The Bolshoi Opera presents the British premiere of Dmitri Tcherniakov’s powerful production of Tchaikovsky’s great romantic masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, to be conducted by Dmitri Jurowski. The Bolshoi’s incomparable singers include the sensational winner of the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, Ekaterina Scherbachenko. The Bolshoi’s Eugene Onegin has toured Europe, Japan, China and Russia, and is one of their most acclaimed productions, hailed for its intensity and passion.

Eugene Onegin 11,12,13,14 August at 7pm

BOLSHOI BALLET

Highlights of the ballet season include the Bolshoi’s joyous revival of Coppélia, which has earned ecstatic accolades since its premiere in Moscow last year, and a fascinating triple bill of three celebrated ballets by some of Russia’s supreme choreographers: Fokine’s immortal Petrushka set to Stravinsky’s extraordinary score; the Grand Pas from Petipa’s masterpiece Paquita, in a revival by Yuri Burlaka; and the British premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons, an exuberant celebration of Russian folk dance.

Three renowned classics particularly associated with the Bolshoi’s matchless vitality return to the stage of the Royal Opera House. The season opens with Yuri Grigorovich’s legendary staging of Spartacus to Khachaturian’s famous score and closes with Don Quixote, an exhilarating celebration of the Bolshoi’s breathtakingly virtuoso dancing and irrepressible wit. Following its spectacular success in 2007, Alexei Ratmansky’s recreation of Le Corsaire returns with its exotic blend of love, intrigue and deception.

In contrast, Balanchine’s great twentieth-century classic, Serenade and the haunting Giselle, performed in Yuri Grigorovich’s acclaimed version, combine in a programme which displays the elegance and beauty of the Bolshoi’s incomparable dancers.

The full complement of the Bolshoi’s leading dancers including Maria Alexandrova, Anna Antonicheva , Maria Allash, Nina Kaptsova, Natalia Osipova, Ekaterina Shipulina, Svetlana Zakharova and Yuri Baranov, Mikhail Lobukhin, Andrei Merkuriev, Ruslan Skvortsov, Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Ivan Vasiliev will perform in London.

Spartacus 19, 20, 21, 31 July at 7.30pm, 31 July at 2pm

Coppélia 22, 23, 24, July at 7.30pm. 24 July at 2pm

Serenade/Giselle 26, 27, 28 July at 7.30pm

Triple Bill 29, 30 July at 7.30pm

Le Corsaire 2, 3, 4, 5 August at 7.30pm

Don Quixote 6, 7 August at 7.30pm, 7 August at 2pm, 8 August at 3pm

Booking information
Public booking opens on 6 April 2010
www.roh.org.uk/bolshoi
020 7304 4000

Ticket prices
Ballet
£10, £15, £22, £45, £48, £62, £65, £90, £97

Opera
£10, £15, £25, £37, £54, £57, £67, £76, £112, £125, £135

Funny, I could have sworn that was what NYCB danced at the Coliseum a couple of years ago?

Does anyone have any more feedback on the Eugene Onegin? I never entirely trust what I read in press releases ...

Where Onegin is concerned the release is telling the truth about “its intensity and passion”.
At the same time the behaviour of Pushkin’s romantic characters is modernised to the highest degree.

This link raides our Reviews Database and brings up 14 reviews including those by the major writers and indexed by dancer etc:
http://www.ballet.co.uk/tiny/eqc

I got it by going to the Reviews database page (there is a link to it on home page):
http://www.ballet.co.uk/cgi/reviews_database_search/db_search.cgi

and for production I entered Russian Seasons
and for Place I entered London.


If I just looked for Russian Seasons reviews, wherever in the world, I get over 40 reviews returned:
http://www.ballet.co.uk/tiny/fqc

And disappointing not to be seeing Uvarov once again.

He has not made many recent appearances at home either, but they do seem to be changing the casts at a drop a hat.

I also would like to see Andrei Uvarov again. He appears with Zakharova on her personal tours sometimes and in gala concerts.

Spartacus 19, 20, 21, 31 July at 7.30pm, 31 July at 2pm

Vasiliev/Kaptsova/Zakharova/Volchkov 19, 31E
Nikulina/Dmitrichenko/Alexandrova/Baranov 20
Lobukhin/Kaptsova/Krysanova/Shpilevsky 21
Nikulina/Dmitirichenko/tbc/Baranov 31M

Coppélia 22, 23, 24, July at 7.30pm. 24 July at 2pm

Alexandrova/Skvortsov 22
Osipova/Lopatin 23
Stashkevich/Lopatin 24M
Osipova/Skvortsov 24E

Serenade/Giselle 26, 27, 28 July at 7.30pm

Krysanova/Leonova/Yatsenko/Shpilevsky and Zakharova/Tsiskaridze/Allash 26

Leonova/Yatsenko/Stashkevich/Shpilevsky and Osipova/Volchkov/Allash 27

Krysanova/Leonova/Yatsenko/Shpilevsky and Nikulina/Skvortsov/Leonova 28

Russian Seasons/Petrushka/Paquita 29, 30 July at 7.30pm

Alexandrova/Volchov; Vasiliev/Osipova/Savin; Osipova/Zakharova/Merkuriev 29

Vorontsova/Tsiskaridze; Lopatin/Krysanova/Biktimirov; Osipova/tbc 30

Le Corsaire 2, 3, 4, 5 August at 7.30pm

Alexandrova/Tsiskaridze/Krysanova 2, 5
Osipova/Vasiliev/Kaptsova 3
Shipulina/Skvortsov/Yatsenko 4

Don Quixote 6, 7 August at 7.30pm, 7 August at 2pm, 8 August at 3pm

Sakharova/Lobukhin 6, 8
Krysanova/Merkuriev 7M
Osipova/Vasiliev 7E

http://www.victorhochhauser.co.uk/
(You also can watch extracts from Bolshoi’s Le Corsaire on that site.)

To be absolutely sure one can phone their office. The details are in Yellow Pages on internet:

http://www.yell.com/b/Victor+Hochhauser-Music+Management+and+Promotion-London-NW37LR-395533/index.html

"Two further awards for Victor and Lilian Hochhauser.
On 27 October 2009 The President of the Russian Federation, Mr Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree that Victor and Lilian Hochhauser are to be awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation for their considerable contribution to the strengthening and developing of Russian-British relations.
On 16 November 2009 The Royal Academy of Dance honoured Victor and Lilian Hochhauser with the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award 2009, to mark their lifetime contribution to dance in Britain."

I really want to congratulate Victor & Lilian Hochhausers. They have been representing opera and ballet companies and individual dancers, singers and musicians for over 50 years and proved to be not only successful impresarios but also people of spirit, courageous and high-hearted. When Mstislav Rostropovich was ostracized in the USSR for his support of Solzhenitsyn and for disagreements with the Soviet system, then was forced to leave his country and both he and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya were stripped of the Soviet citizenship, it were the Hochhausers who met the exile in Heathrow and offered him professional, practical and moral support. They knew what risk they were taking and were ready to sacrifice a huge chunk of their business, which they were inevitably doomed to loose.
The monopolistic Soviet agency Goskontsert stopped all dealings with them and the Russian business went in Britain to a newly formed company Entertainment Corporation (which eventually went bankrupt).
Only about 18 years later, after the collapse of the USSR, the Hochhausers resumed their collaboration with the Russian companies and artists now freed of the Soviet system.
My congratulations to Lilian & Victor with their awards and thank you for their integrity and loyalty to artists.

Svetlana is back and danced Don Q. in Moscow yesterday.

Cathy

Zakharova is out of the tour, as are apparently Ekaterina Shipulina and young soloist Angelina Vorontsova. Marianna Ryzhkina joins the company in London.

Alexandrova no longer dances Coppelia - Osipova gets the opening night and now performs with Skvortsov, Stashkevitch gets one more performance.

The Giselle line-up has changed completely: Osipova/Skvortsov on opening night instead of Zakharova, then Nikulina/Volchkov & Kaptsova/Skvortsov.

Alexandrova/Tsiskaridze lead both performances of the Paquita Grand Pas.

Ekaterina Krysanova gets one Medora in lieu of Shipulina.

Some drastic changes as well in the Don Quixote line-up: Osipova/Vasiliev now get 2 performances but not their original one, Marianna Ryzhkina steps in to do one Kitri.

I remember the last time the Bolshoi were here someone joked that the best way to see the dancers you wanted was to book the dates when they weren't scheduled to appear...

I just used the 'translate' button on the page from the Bolshoi website and it seems to have come out reasonably well:

Spartacus
19, 20, 21 July (19.30) 31 July (14.00, 19.30)

19, 21, 31 July (19.30)
Spartak - Ivan Vasiliev
Phrygia - Nina Kaptsova
Crassus - Alexander Volchkov
Aegina - Maria Allash

20, 31 July (14.00)
Spartak - Paul Dmitrichenko
Phrygia - Anna Nikulina
Crass - Yuri Baranov
Aegina - Catherine Krysanova

Coppelia
22, July 23 (19.30) 24 July (14.00, 19.30)

22, 24 July (19.30)
Swanilda - Natalia Osipova
Franz - Ruslan Skvortsov
Koppelius - Gennady Yanin

23, 24 July (14.00)
Swanilda - Anastasia Stashkevich
Franz - Vyacheslav Lopatin
Koppelius - Gennady Yanin

"Serenade", "Giselle"
26, 27, 28 July (19.30)

Serenade
26, July 28
Catherine Krysanova
Anastasia Yatsenko
Anna Leonova
Yegor Khromushin
Karim Abdullin

July 27
Catherine Krysanova
Anastasia Stashkevich
Victoria Osipova
Yegor Khromushin
Karim Abdullin

Giselle
July 26
Giselle - Natalia Osipova
Count Albert - Ruslan Skvortsov
Myrtha - Maria Allash

July 27
Giselle - Anna Nikulina
Count Albert - Alexander Volchkov
Myrtha - Maria Allash

July 28
Giselle - Nina Kaptsova
Count Albert - Ruslan Skvortsov
Mirta - Anna Leonova

"Petruchka," "Russian Seasons", more classical Pas from Paquita
29, July 30 (19.30)

"Pet"
July 29
Petrushka - Michael Lobuhin
Ballerina - Nina Kaptsova
Arap - Denis Savin
Magician - Gennady Yanin

July 30
Petrushka - Ivan Vasiliev
Ballerina - Anastasia Stashkevich
Arap - Igor Tsvirko
Magician - Gennady Yanin

"Russian Seasons"

A pair of yellow
Catherine Krysanova
Andrew Merkur'ev

Couple in red
Natalia Osipova (29 July), Anastasia Meskova (30 July),
Denis Savin

Couple in green
Julia Grebenshchikova
Alexander Vodopetov

A pair of blue
Anna Okunev
Vladislav Lantratov

A pair of purple
Chinara Alizadeh
Igor Tsvirko

A pair of burgundy
Anna Nikulina
Vyacheslav Lopatin

Many classical Pas from Paquita

Paquita - Maria Alexandrova
Lucien d'Ervili - Nikolai Tsiskaridze
Pas de trois
Anna Tikhomirova
Anastasia Stashkevich
Vladislav Lantratov (29 July), Andrei Bolotin (30 July),

Le Corsaire
2-5 August (19.30)

August 2
Medora - Maria Alexandrova
Conrad - Nikolai Tsiskaridze
Gulnara - Marianna Ryzhkina
Birbanto - Vitali Biktimirov

August 3
Medora - Natalia Osipova
Conrad - Ivan Vasiliev
Gulnara - Nina Kaptsova
Birbanto - Andrew Merkur'ev

August 4
Medora - Catherine Krysanova
Conrad - Ruslan Skvortsov
Gulnara - Marianna Ryzhkina
Birbanto - Vitali Biktimirov

August 5
Medora - Maria Alexandrova
Conrad - Alexander Volchkov
Gulnara - Anastasia Yatsenko
Birbanto - Andrew Merkur'ev

"Don Quixote"
August 6 (19.30), 7 August (14.00, 19.30), 8 August (15.00)

August 6
Kitri - Natalia Osipova
Basilio - Ivan Vasiliev
Street dancer - Anastasia Yatsenko
Queen of Dryads - Maria Allash

7 August (14.00)
Kitri - Catherine Krysanova
Basile - Andrew Merkur'ev
Street Dancer - Anna Leonova
Queen of Dryads - Anna Nikulina

7 August (19.30)
Kitri - Marianna Ryzhkina
Basile - Michael Lobuhin
Street Dancer - Anna Leonova
Queen of Dryads - Maria Allash

8 August (15.00)
Kitri - Natalia Osipova
Basilio - Ivan Vasiliev
Street dancer - Anastasia Yatsenko
Queen of Dryads - Anna Nikulina

Eugene Onegin
August 11-14 (19.00)

Conductor
Dmitri Jurowski

Larina, a landowner
Makvala Kasrashvili (11, 13)
Irina Rubtsova (12, 14)

Tatiana, her daughter
Tatiana Monogarova (11, 13)
Catherine Shcherbachenko (12, 14)

Olga, her daughter
Margarita Mamsirova (11, 13)
Oksana Volkova (12, 14)

Filippevna, nanny
Nina Romanova (11, 13)
Irina Udalova (12, 14)

Eugene Onegin
Mariusz Kvechen (11, 13)
Basil Ladyuk (12, 14)

Vladimir Lensky
Roman SHULAKOV (11, 13)
Alexey Dolgov (12, 14)

Prince Gremin
Anatoly Kocherga (11, 13)
Mikhail Kazakov (12, 14)

Zaretsky
Valery Gilmanov

Edited to make layout clearer
Edited again to change 'parsley' to Petrushka

I've ended up with an Osipova/Vasiliev Don Q, so I'm not entirely upset by the changes.

And they're showing Osipova's partner for Giselle on July 26th as Nikolai Tsiskaridze.

Well it makes me wonder if publishing casting in advance is more a hindrance than a help.

I remember in 1986, when there was no advance casting, eventually during the season a hand written casting board appeared appeared in the window of the old box office in Floral Street.

A much ammended hand written casting board.

"Parsley" *)
July 29
Parsley *) - Michael Lobuhin
Ballerina - Nina Kaptsova
Arap - Denis Savin
Magician - Gennady Yanin

July 30
Parsley *) - Ivan Vasiliev
Ballerina - Anastasia Stashkevich
Arap - Igor Tsvirko
Magician - Gennady Yanin

*) A minor correction!
"Parsley" must be replaced by "Petrushka".
The Russian word "Petrushka" means both - "parsley" and one of the diminutives for the name Petr/Pyotr/Peter.

Edited for typo.

Many thanks, Amelia. The automated translation clearly couldn't cope with this! Fortunately I saw your correction while there was still time to edit the posting so it should now be accurate.

Thanks to various people for the updates - I was trying to decipher them on the Bolshoi website last night and my eyes were going crossed.

BTW, has anyone spotted whether there are any changes to the Eugene Onegin casts?

Yes, much to my annoyance they switched the Tatyanas around: Shcherbachenko is now second cast (12, 14 Aug) and Monogarova first (11, 13 Aug).

Actually Zakharova did guest-appear with Japan's New National Theatre Ballet, last week (in La dame aux camelias). It appears she did 3 shows in this run, so I presume she'd be pretty much in good shape now...

I thought it's been a while, since the US tour was in April and she dropped out of Ballet Imperial in Milan in May because of injury, according to the Scala website. Her own website isn't showing any scheduled performances after Tokyo.
Curiouser and curiouser

Ismene Brown has written a piece in today's Arts Desk concerning the Bolshoi casting changes:
The Arts Desk

As of now, the Coppelia casting has not been changed and Alexandrova is still down for the 22nd July.

Also, Osipova is down for the July 26 AND July 27 Giselle with Nikulina down for July 28

I suspect that there are gremlins at work and that we'll see more changes yet.

Edited to point out possible mistake in Don Q casting

THE BOLSHOI BALLET
at the Royal Opera House
Monday 19 July – Saturday 14 August 2010

REVISED CASTING
13.07.2010

Svetlana Zakharova has had to withdraw from the Bolshoi Ballet season at the Royal Opera House due to a hip injury. The revised casting is listed below.

Spartacus
July 19, 20 21, 31 (mat &eve)

Spartacus           Ivan Vasiliev 19, 21, 31(eve)
                        Pavel Dmitrichenko 20, 31(eve)
Crassus             Alexander Volchkov 19, 21, 31(eve)
                        Yury Baranov 20, 31(mat)
Phrygia              Nina Kaptsova 19, 21, 31(eve)
                        Anna Nikulina 20, 31(mat)
Aegina               Maria Allash 19, 21, 31(eve)
                        Ekaterina Krysanova 20, 31(mat)

Coppélia
July 22, 23, 24 (mat & eve)

Swanilda            Natalia Osipova 22, 24(eve)
                         Anastasia Stashkevich 23, 24(mat)
Frantz                Ruslan Skvortsov 22, 24(eve)
                        Vyacheslav Lopatin 23, 24(mat)
Dr Coppelius       Gennady Yanin

I Serenade
July 26, 27, 28

Waltz                        Ekaterina Krysanova, Igor Khromushin
Russian Dance    Anastasia Yatsenko 26, 28 Anastasia Stashkevich 27
                     Svetlana Pavlova, Maria Vinogradova, Daria Gurevich, Anna Tikhomirova
Elegy                 Anna Leonova 26, 28
                        Victoria Osipova 27
                        Karim Abdullin

II Giselle

Giselle               Natalia Osipova 26
                    Anna Nikulina 27
                    Nina Kaptsova 28
Prince Albrecht    Ruslan Skvortsov26, 28
                        Alexander Volchkov 27
Berthe               Elena Bukanova
Bathilde             Ekaterina Barykina
Grand Duke          Alexey Loparevich

Triple Bill
29, 30 July

I Petrushka

Petrushka           Mikhail Lobukhin 29
                        Ivan Vasiliev 30
Ballerina            Nina Kaptsova 29
                        Anastasia Stashkevich 30
Moor                  Denis Savin 29
                        Igor Tsvirko 30
Charlatan            Gennady Yanin

II Russian Seasons

Couple in Yellow
(then in white)    Ekaterina Krysanova    Andrei Merkuriev
Couple in Red     Natalia Osipova 29
                         Anastasia Meskova 30
                         Denis Savin
Couple in Green  Yulia Grebenschikova           Alexander Vodopetov
Couple in Blue     Anna Okuneva            Vladislav Lantratov
Couple in Violet  Chinara Alizade           Igor Tsvirko
Couple in Claret
Red                   Anna Nikulina             Vyacheslav Lopatin

III Grand Pas from ballet “Paquita”

Paquita              Maria Alexandrova
Lucien d’Hervilly  Nkolay Tsiskaridze
Pas de Trois       Anna Tikhomirova  Anastasia Stashkevich
                  Vladislav Lantratov 29
                  Andrey Bolotin 30

Le Corsaire
2, 3, 4, 5 August 2010

Medora      Maria Alexandrova 2, 5
                Natalia Osipova 3,
                Ekaterina Krysanova 4
Conrad       Nikolay Tsiskaridze 2
                Ivan Vasiliev 3
        Ruslan Skvortsov 4
        Alexander Volshkov 5
Gulnare      Marianna Ryzhkina 2, 4
                Nina Kaptsova 3
                Anastasia Yatsenko 5
Birbanto     Vitaly Biktimirov 2, 4
                Andrey Merkuriev 3, 5
Pas d’esclaves
                Nina Kaptsova 2, 4
                Anastasia Yatsenko 3, 5
                Ivan Vasiliev 2
                Denis Medvedev 4
                Vyacheslav Lopatin 3, 5

Don Quixote
6, 7 (mat & eve), 8 (mat) August

Kitri                  Natalia Osipova 6, 8
                        Ekaterina Krysanova 7(mat)
                        Marianna Ryzhkina 7(eve)
Basilio                       Ivan Vasiliev 6, 8
                        Andrey Merkuriev 7(mat)
                        Mikhail Lobukhin 7(eve)
Don Quixote               Alexey Loparevich
Sancho Panza     Alexander Petukhov 6, 7(eve)
                        Sergey Minsakov 7(mat), 8
Gamache            Denis Savin        

Edit: tidy format

I got that email, too. This was the exact wording:

Performance Timings:
Act I < 19:30 - 20:05> (35 minutes)
Interval < 20:05 - 20:30> (25 minutes)
Act II < 20:30 - 21:25> (55 minutes)
Interval < 21:25 - 21:55> (30 minutes)
Act III < 21:55 - 22:50> (55 minutes)

Act III? Have they got it mixed up with the Le Corsaire?

All discussion on the new thread please - ta!