November, 10 2014 The ensemble "Les Arts Florissants " performed at the Bolshoi Theatre The ensemble "Les Arts Florissants" provided the Bolshoi's audience with an opportunity to travel to the "gallant France" of the baroque epoch. It was founded in 1979 by its permanent director and conductor William Christie (USA), who is a harpsichordist, a musicologist and a pedagogue. He became the pioneer of the authentic performance in France and discovered many baroque masterpieces; even today, thirty five years later, this ensemble remains one of the best in the world (its name was inspired by the same-name opera of M.-A. Charpentier). Sophie Daneman, the stage director "Les Arts Florissants" carry out various projects together with Europe's best opera theatres and festivals. During the years of its existence the ensemble has recorded more than a hundred CDs together with various outstanding musicians. The 250th death anniversary of Jean-Philippe Rameau is marked in 2014. He was one of the most prominent composers of his time, a contemporary of Bach and Handel and the greatest music theoretician of his epoch. Rameau invented new ways of musical expression, that allowed him to improve the French baroque opera and ballet considerably. In the beginning of the 20th century Claude Debussy encouraged the French to appreciate Rameau, who represented the national traditions; today Rameau's pieces are performed all over the world, however, this was the first time they were performed in Moscow. The performances "Daphnis et Eglé" and "La naissance d'Osiris" to the music of Rameau were first staged 260 years ago; they were called "ballets", but naturally, these are not ballets that we are used to. The instrumental music and singing under the guise of "beau dance" come together in an unusual yet inseparable unity. T wo "ballets" to the music by Rameau were performed in Moscow as a part of the ensemble's European tour, marking the memory of the great French composer. The tour started on November 4th in Luxembourg and will close on November 22nd in Paris. The productions were created at the music theatre in the city of Caen in cooperation with Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. The productions were choreographed by Françoise Denieau, a specialist in baroque and modern dance. Sophie Daneman, the stage director, combines the careers of a singer and a director successfully. Alain Blanchot, a specialist in historic costumes, designed the costumes for the productions. American Ballet Theatre announced the program for the spring season-2015 American Ballet Theatre announced the program for the spring season-2015, which will be presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The joined performance of David Hallberg, ABT's and Bolshoi's premiere dancer, and Natalia Osipova, the Royal Ballet's prima ballerina, will become the highlight of the season. They will dance in "La Bayadere", "Romeo and Juliette" and the new production of "Sleeping Beauty", created by Alexei Ratmansky. The ABT, which celebrates its 75th anniversary, invited famous stars to participate in its performances as guest stars. The list includes Bolshoi Theatre's prima ballerina Evgenia Obraztsova, Bolshoi Theatre's leading soloist Olga Smirnova and San Francisco Ballet's prima ballerina Maria Kochetkova. Misty Copeland, ABT's soloist, will dance the part of Odette-Odile in "Swan Lake"; she will also make her debut in "Romeo and Juliette". ABT's prima ballerinas Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes will perform for the last time before finishing their dancing careers. " Bolshoi Ballet at the Cinemas " has reached out to an audience of 1 mln people! On October 26th, when the premiere performance of the ballet "A Legend of Love" was broadcast life, the number of viewers who have watched Bolshoi Theatre's performances at cinemas exceeded 1 mln people! The project "Bolshoi Ballet at the cinemas" started in March 2010; the "pilot" broadcast of the ballet "The Flames of Paris" took place in 150 cinemas. Today, four years later, Bolshoi's performances are broadcast live at 1200 cinemas in 50 countries. T op 5 ballets: "The Nutcracker" - 150 000 viewers (one live broadcast and two screenings of the recorded performance) "Sleeping Beauty" - 140 000 (one live broadcast and one screening of the recorded performance)
"Le Corsaire" - 80 000 (one live broadcast and one screening of the recorded performance)
"Don Quixote" - 65 000 (one live broadcast and one screening of the recorded performance)
"Jewels" - 65 000 (only live broadcast) Schedule of screenings for this season is available at: .pathelive.com/fr/saisons/ballet-du-bolchoi-2014-2015 Bolshoi Theatre in the Internet Newsletter

, 7 November, 10 2014 Arif Melikov, a composer, a pedagogue, a People's Artist of the USSR and the Azerbaijan SSR and the author of the music for the ballet "A Legend of Love", became a guest of Bolshoi Theatre's "Green Living Room". Mr. Melikov talked with Katerina Novikova about creating this ballet and about his life and career: .youtube.com/watch?v=pFC5MDvdONU&list=PL YaT A5xy9uAFHIF8RFlLOYk gG4mbYYtli Arif Melikov Ekaterina Golovleva (soprano), Bolshoi Opera's soloist, celebrated her birthday on November 7th. Our most sincere congratulations to the singer! Ekaterina Golovleva

For articles published 6 November 2014 .vogue.com publishes two recipes given by Maya Plisetskaya to Vogue in 1966, Sauce Satsivi and Beef Stew for four. Monte Carlo News announces that 2015 will be the Russia Year in Monte Carlo and says that the official launching will take place on 19th December 2014 with the ballet The T aming of the Shrew, under the direction of Jean-Christophe Maillot, director- choreographer of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo and with the dancers of the BolshoГЇ Theatre Moscow. Several hours later the same Monte Carlo News publishes a story about the Monte Carlo Ballet and writes that "the expected event and missed the end of the year is the legendary Bolshoi Ballet Theatre, which will play The Taming of the Shrew at the Grimaldi Forum on 20 and 21 December 2014." Several international publications are announcing broadcasting from the Bolshoi Ballet. La Plana al Dia (Spain) says that a press conference was held in the town of V inaros in order to present the new season of the JJ Cinema which will start broadcasting Bolshoi's ballets and opera from 13 November 2014. .islandpacket.com publishes a story about the play Of Mice and Men with James Franco being the first Broadway show to be broadcast by the National Theatre Live series in over 900 venues across the U.S. and Canada, and says that "event cinema has exploded. When once there was just the Metropolitan Opera at the movie theater, now there's the Bolshoi Ballet, concerts from One Direction and a steady stream of English plays." Bonnaparte (Germany) announces that the Russian State Ballet Moscow will perform the Swan Lake in Bonn on 24 December and that it works with Yuri Burlaka, former director of ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. The Memorial Parade took place on the Red Square in Moscow According the Moscow Public Relations Committee Press-Office, the march on the Red Square, marking the 1941 legendary parade, started at 10 a.m. on Friday and continued for about 50 minutes. More than 6 thousand people - soldiers of the Moscow Military District, wearing 1941 uniform, the Cavalry Escort of the Presidential Regiment, the guard of honor of the detached commandant of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, students of the Moscow Suvorov Military School, representatives of various patriotic war clubs, search elements and students of the Moscow cadet school marched on the Red Square; this was a way to honor the generation of winners that protected our motherland from fascism. …The Moscow Public Relations Committee announced that a meeting and a concert for participants of 1941 and 1945 parades, veterans of the Great Patriotic W ar and representatives of Moscow NGOs would take place at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre on November 7th at noon.
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