A year of Bolshoi, beauty and brilliance

From: China Daily | Date: November 11, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Since the prestigious Bolshoi Theatre raised the curtain on the Year of Russia in China at the Great Hall of the People in March, almost 1,200 artists from 22 Russian ensembles have toured 17 Chinese cities. These cities included Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Wuhan and local audiences were treated with powerful Russian drama, ballet, music, paintings and folk arts.

Russians exerted great influence on New China's performing arts, such as Constantin Stanislavsky's dramas half a century ago. The Year of Russia in China has rekindled the Chinese people's reminiscence of those poetic ...

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