Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, grounded by COVID-19 and then shunned in the West since Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, returns to international touring next week for the first time since the pandemic with a trip to Beijing.
The theatre, founded in 1776 by Empress Catherine the Great, will showcase excerpts of some of its best-known ballet works in two gala performances in Beijing, followed by a three-day staging of the 19th-century ballet "Don Quixote". Some 300 costumes and set designs have been sent ahead to China.
Last February, the day after Moscow sent thousands of troops into Ukraine, London's Royal Opera House called off the Bolshoi's planned post-pandemic return for a residency scheduled for that summer. Cancellations in other Western cities followed.
Its dancers hope the performance in Beijing will herald a return to the global stage for the crown jewel of Russian culture.
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