A live telecast of the reopening of the The Bolshoi Theatre in Russia will be shown at the Parrish Art Museum. In a 105 minute program, the program will include, according to the museum:
- A special restaging of the garland waltz from The Sleeping Beauty by Alexey Ratmansky, with music by Pytor Illich Tchaikovsky.
- The Bolshoi Orchestra performs the polonaise from the opera Ivan Susanin by Mikhail Glinka. This opera is commonly known in the West as A Life for the Tsar.
- Performance of the Act II opening scene—“the Appian Way”—from the ballet Spartacus,with music by Aram Khachaturian and choreography by former director and chief choreographer of the Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Grigorovich.
- Performance of an excerpt from the opera Betrothal in a Monastery by Sergei Prokofiev.
- Performance of the folk-like “Basque dance” from the ballet The Flames of Paris, with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky and music by Boris Asafiev.
- Rarely seen or heard in the West, singers of the Bolshoi Opera will perform an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera Iolanta. This opera served as an opening to the premiere of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker in St. Petersburg.
- Members of the Bolshoi Opera will perform the famous “Polovetsian Dances” scene from the opera Prince Igor by A. Borodin.
