MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) --In Russian, "bolshoi" means "big" -- and everything about the Bolshoi Theatre really is larger than life. The vast hall, with its gilt stucco molding, has seats for more ...

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The only branch in Brazil of Russia’s famous Bolshoi Theater, the Escola do Teatro Bolshoi no Brasil has been active in ...

MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. Moscow's Bolshoi Theater will open its 246th season on Monday with two operas: Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, directed by Rimas Tuminas, will be performed on ...

MOSCOW, May 26 ./TASS/. With the 241st Bolshoi Theater season still underway, plans for next year have already been announced, the theater’s director Vladimir Urin told TASS on Thursday.

He was just 31 at the time but already a prominent figure who, despite taking up ballet at the relatively late age of 14, had made it into the Bolshoi Theater. After joining the Bolshoi ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to sign the Treaty on the Creation of the ...

In 2009 the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater reopened after renovation, the largest in its history. Aleksandr Lukashenko took part in the grand opening of the renovated building.

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