In Verona, Romeo and Juliet fall madly in love while their respective families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are caught in a bitter rivalry ending in heart-wrenching tragedy… Alexei Ratmansky, former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, stages the company’s premiere of his production with dramatic urgency and a fresh re-telling of Shakespeare’s beloved classic. His brilliant and detailed adaptation set to Prokofiev’s romantic and cinematic score, reignites the story of literature’s most celebrated star-crossed lovers like no other classical ballet choreographer today.
2h 55min
Release Date: 04.10.2020
2h 55min
Release Date 04.10.2020
NB! Due to the fact that the cinemas are temporarily closed until futher notice the broadcast of "Romeo and Juliet" is cancelled. All questions regarding tickets please forward to our information email address: info@forumcinemas.ee In spite of each of their families being merciless enemies, Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love.
2h 51min
Release Date: 14.06.2020
2h 51min
Release Date 14.06.2020
The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the Wilis, vengeful spirits of jilted brides who condemn Albrecht to dance until he dies of exhaustion… Giselle touches upon great and universal romantic themes. In this brand new production, renowned choreographer Alexei Ratmansky brings a fresh perspective to one of the oldest and greatest works of classical dance, giving the audience an opportunity to discover this iconic ballet anew.
2h 24min
Release Date: 26.01.2020
2h 24min
Release Date 26.01.2020
On the bazaar square of Andrinopolis, the Pacha is struck by the beauty of Medora and tries to buy her, but the lovely young woman is not for sale. As the transaction is about to come to a close, Medora is kidnaped by Conrad, a charming corsair who catches her eye… Bolshoi Prima Ballerina, the “mesmerizing” Ekaterina Krysanova and Leading Soloist Igor Tsvirko ignite Medora and Conrad’s passion with undeniable intensity.
3h 20min
Release Date: 17.11.2019
3h 20min
Release Date 17.11.2019
In the era of the French Revolution, Jeanne and her brother Jérôme leave Marseille for Paris in support of the revolutionary effort that is taking over the capital. While fighting for freedom, they both encounter love along the way… Very few ballets can properly depict the Bolshoi’s overflowing energy and fiery passion as can Alexei Ratmansky’s captivating revival of Vasily Vainonen’s The Flames of Paris. With powerful virtuosity and some of the most stunning pas de deux, the Bolshoi Ballet displays an exuberance almost too enormous for the Moscow stage.
2h 23min
Release Date: 04.03.2018
2h 23min
Release Date 04.03.2018
In Verona, Romeo and Juliet fall madly in love while their respective families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are caught in a bitter rivalry ending in heart-wrenching tragedy… Alexei Ratmansky, former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, stages the company’s premiere of his production with dramatic urgency and a fresh re-telling of Shakespeare’s beloved classic. His brilliant and detailed adaptation set to Prokofiev’s romantic and cinematic score, reignites the story of literature’s most celebrated star-crossed lovers like no other classical ballet choreographer today.
3h 5min
Release Date: 21.01.2018
3h 5min
Release Date 21.01.2018
Amidst a bustling market, the pirate Conrad falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Medora, the ward of the slave merchant Lankedem’s bazaar. Conrad kidnaps Medora when Lanquedem decides to sell her to the Pasha. Inspired by Lord Byron’s epic poem and reworked by Alexei Ratmansky from Petipa’s exotic 19th century classic, this miracle of the repertoire is one of the Bolshoi’s most lavish productions.
3h 40min
Release Date: 22.10.2017
3h 40min
Release Date 22.10.2017
For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in Hans Van Manen’s Frank Bridge Variations, Sol León and Paul Lightfoot’s Short Time Together and Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons. This encounter between some of the best dancers in the world and masters of contemporary choreography results in an outstanding synthesis of bringing Van Manen’s formal beauty, León and Lightfoot’s intensity, and Ratmansky’s witty brilliance to a new level.
2h 47min
Release Date: 19.03.2017
2h 47min
Release Date 19.03.2017
During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her unfaithful husband a lesson, Zina, the ballerina and the ballerina’s husband decide to swap roles for the evening… Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions, false identities including Principal Dancer Ruslan Skvortsov dressed as a Sylph and its many colorful characters!
2h 30min
Release Date: 06.11.2016
2h 30min
Release Date 06.11.2016
The New York Times: All of this is delightful for balletomanes, who can revel in Ratmansky’s ingenious re-creation of these miniature ballets and the studio scenes that seem lifted straight from a Degas painting. Music Leonid Desyatnikov Choreography Alexei Ratmansky Dramaturgy consultant Guillaume Gallienne With the Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet Lucien, a young provincial and budding composer, sets to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. Quickly, his success blinds him and he betrays his friends and his love ...
2h 45min
Release Date: 02.02.2014
2h 45min
Release Date 02.02.2014
In Adrianople, on the market place, the beautiful Medora is sold to Pasha by a slave dealer. But a pirate, hidden among the crowd with his companions, decides to ravish her... Inspired by Lord Byron’s poem, Marius Petipa created and carried out all of the ballet’s revival at the Bolshoi until the beginning of the 20th century. In 2007, Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka presented a new choreographic version which stands out as the most sumptuous of all. Thrilling suspense is at the core of this lavish exotic fable.
3h 0min
Release Date: 17.11.2013
3h 0min
Release Date 17.11.2013
Marius PETIPA (France 1818 - 1910) is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet in history. Noted for his long career as Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres (1871-1903), Petipa created over fifty ballets and revived a substantial number of works by other Ballet Masters. Most of his choreographies are cornerstones within the classical ballet repertory. Yuri BURLAKA: Admitted into the Moscow Ballet School in 1986, he became first soloist of the Russian Ballet Company on the same year.
3h 10min
Release Date: 31.03.2013
3h 10min
Release Date 31.03.2013
Alexei Ratmansky: After graduating from the Academic College of Choreography in Moscow in 1986, Alexei Ratmansky went on to become a principal dancer for the National Opera of Ukraine, Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet. Whilst dancing, he staged numerous ballets and became famous as a choreographer. In 2003, the Bolshoi Theatre offered him to revive a soviet ballet: The Bright Stream. The ballet became a huge success and Alexei Ratmansky was appointed artistic director of the Bolshoi the following year.
2h 25min
Release Date: 29.04.2012
2h 25min
Release Date 29.04.2012
Inspired by a poem from Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814), this ballet was originally created in 1856 for the Paris Opera by Joseph Mazilier. In 1858, Jules Perrot presented his version at the Bolshoi Theatre, version in which Marius Petipa danced. When he became a choreographer, Marius Petipa remained in charge of all choreographic versions until the beginning of the 20th century. In 2007, Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burklava created a new choreographic version which remains to this day, the most sumptuous of all.
3h 40min
Release Date: 11.03.2012
3h 40min
Release Date 11.03.2012
Marius PETIPA (France 1818 - 1910) is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet in history. Noted for his long career as Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres (1871-1903), Petipa created over fifty ballets and revived a substantial number of works by other Ballet Masters. Most of his choreographies are cornerstones within the classical ballet repertory. Yuri BURLAKA : Admitted into the Moscow Ballet School in 1986, he became first soloist of the Russian Ballet Company on the same year.
3h 10min
Release Date: 09.10.2011
3h 10min
Release Date 09.10.2011