Bolshoi Ballet returns to Australian cinemas

For the fifth consecutive year, The Bolshoi Ballet returns to Australian cinemas with four new productions captured live in HD from Moscow, showing in cinemas from December 13.

Regarded as one of the greatest ballet companies in the world, The Bolshoi Ballet offers a spectacular new 2014-15 season on the big screen featuring the magnificent Tchaikovsky classics like The Nutcracker and Swan Lake in time for the 175th birthday of the composer.

The new cinema season also features two new ballets, including the long-awaited return of The Legend of Love (after a 10-year absence on the Bolshoi stage) and the unique unreleased epic Ivan the Terrible, an essential masterpiece within the company’s repertoire.

Once again, audiences across Australia will be able to enjoy these outstanding performances featuring Bolshoi Principals David Hallberg and Olga Smirnova, as well as soloists and corps de ballet.

The Legend of Love will screen from December 13, with nearly three hours of choreography by Yuri Grigorovich. The Nutcracker will be shown from February 7 before Swan Lake swoops in a month later. Ivan The Terrible will screen from June 20, 2015.

Cinemas screening these productions, by region, include:

NSW

Cremorne Orpheum

Dendy Opera Quays

Palace Verona

Palace Chauvel

Event Cinemas Bondi Junction

Event Cinemas Castle Hill

Riverside Theatres Parramatta

Avoca Beach Picture Theatre

Greater Union Newcastle

Manning Entertainment Centre Taree

QLD

Palace Centro

Dendy Portside

Toowoomba Strand

BCC Maroochydore

VIC

Cinema Nova

Palace Dendy Brighton

Palace Brighton Bay

Sorrento Athenaeum

ACT

Dendy Canberra

Greater Union Manuka

TAS

MONA Museum of Old & New Art, Hobart

SA

Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas

WA

Luna Cinema Paradiso

Photo: The Bolshoi Ballet performing Swan Lake. Photo courtesy of Sharmill Films.