MOSCOW — The Bolshoi Theater. The name conjures up visions of ballet and opera performed at the arts' highest levels. What has not been at the highest level, though, is the theater itself. For ...

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian officials on Tuesday announced the sacking of Bolshoi Theatre director Anatoly Iksanov following a series of scandals including the horrific January acid attack on its ...

A performer at Moscow’s renowned Bolshoi Theatre was killed on Saturday in an accident on stage during an opera. The Bolshoi, one of Russia’s most prestigious theaters, said the incident ...

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Reporting from Moscow — — The general director of the Bolshoi Theatre has confirmed that what’s seemed like a never-ending reconstruction of the Bolshoi’s historic building is finally ...

Since 1919, the Bolsheviks renamed it The State Academic Bolshoi Theatre – Vladimir Lenin mulled banning it altogether as a citadel of old-regime art, but, fortunately, changed his mind.

A couple of months ago, ballerina Olga Smirnova was soaring across the vast Bolshoi Theatre stage in “Swan Lake.” Celebrated actor Chulpan Khamatova, fresh off her star turn at Moscow’s ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government replaced the head of the Bolshoi Theatre on Tuesday, six months after a hit man hired by one of its dancers threw acid in the face of the director of ballet.

The theater tweeted its condolences on Sunday. “The management of the Bolshoi Theatre and the team of the mimic ensemble regretfully announce the tragic death of our artist YEVGENY SERGEEVICH ...

MOSCOW, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A performer at Moscow's renowned Bolshoi Theatre was killed on Saturday in an accident on stage during an opera, the theatre said. The Bolshoi, one of Russia's most ...