Bolshoi's Petipa Is Must-See Dance, THE MOSCOW TIMES

The Moscow Times (Russia) | May 23, 2003| | Copyright

Raymond Stults
The Moscow Times (Russia)
05-23-2003
First lead principals Mark Peretokin and Nadezhda Grachyova dancing
Abderakhman and Raymonda last week.
'Raymonda," with music by Alexander Glazunov, is a quintessentially
Russian ballet, much beloved at home, but little known or performed abroad.
This month, "Raymonda" returned to the Bolshoi Theater, after a three-year
absence, in a revision and refurbishment of the production initially choreographed
by Yury Grigorovich and decorated by his close collaborator, Simon Virsaladze,
in 1984. At its third showing, on May 13, with a third successive ...

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