Egor Simachev

Lucien, a young composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. His success soon blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his love. Lost Illusions is a new ballet created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgical advice from Guillaume Gallienne. This stylised adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel features thwarted love, ambition, and disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its backdrop.

The Bolshoi presents the famous star-crossed lovers from Shakespeare’s most tragic love story set to Prokofiev’s cinematic score.

Inspiré d’un poème épique de Lord Byron, ce joyau du répertoire est une promesse d’aventure et de grand spectacle dont les plus célèbres pas du ballet classique sont tirés. Avec sa scène de naufrage stupéfiante et ses tableaux luxueux, cette romance théâtrale fait danser presque l’ensemble de la troupe sur la scène du Bolchoï.

La veille de son mariage, James voit apparaitre en rêve une sylphide, créature vaporeuse des forêts d’Écosse. Ensorcelé par sa beauté James fuit la noce et s’enfuit avec la Sylphide dans son royaume. À la poursuite de son idéal, il risquera de perdre l’amour de sa fiancée, bien réel…

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.