
Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream
Music · Comedy
Overview
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! The Bolshoi bursts with vivid life and bright spirits in Ratmansky’s brilliantly choreographed smash. Captured live on Apr 29, 2012.
Top Cast


Svetlana Lunkina
Svetlana Lunkina
Zina
Svetlana Lunkina
Zina


Mikhail Lobukhin
Mikhail Lobukhin
Pytor
Mikhail Lobukhin
Pytor


Maria Alexandrova
Maria Alexandrova
Ballerina
Maria Alexandrova
Ballerina


Ruslan Skvortsov
Ruslan Skvortsov
Ballet Dancer
Ruslan Skvortsov
Ballet Dancer


Denis Savin
Denis Savin
Accordionist
Denis Savin
Accordionist


Alexei Loparevich
Alexei Loparevich
Old Dacha Dweller
Alexei Loparevich
Old Dacha Dweller


Anastasia Vinokur
Anastasia Vinokur
Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller
Anastasia Vinokur
Anxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller


Egor Simachev
Egor Simachev
Gavrilych
Egor Simachev
Gavrilych


Ksenia Pchelkina
Ksenia Pchelkina
Gayla
Ksenia Pchelkina
Gayla


Anastasiya Meskova
Anastasiya Meskova
Milkmaid
Anastasiya Meskova
Milkmaid
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