Yuri Grigorovich, The Golden Age

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First performed at the Kirov Theater in 1930, The Golden Age has as its central theme the battle and triumph of the proletariat over the decadent bourgeoisie. Surprisingly, the score by Dmitri Shos...

First performed at the Kirov Theater in 1930, The Golden Age has as its central theme the battle and triumph of the proletariat over the decadent bourgeoisie. Surprisingly, the score by Dmitri Shostakovich raised political controversies, and the ballet vanished from theaters until 1982, when Grigorovich restaged it with a love story as its central focus. To celebrate Grigorovich's 90th birthday, the Bolshoi has revived this ballet with leading artists of a new generation, Nina Kaptsova, Mikhail Lobukhin, and Ruslan Skvortsov.

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