Bolshoi Ballet: The Bright Stream

The story

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.

Cast

S Svetlana LunkinaZina M Mikhail LobukhinPytor M Maria AlexandrovaBallerina R Ruslan SkvortsovBallet Dancer D Denis SavinAccordionist A Alexei LoparevichOld Dacha Dweller A Anastasia VinokurAnxious-to-be-younger-than-she-is Dacha Dweller E Egor SimachevGavrilych K Ksenia PchelkinaGayla A Anastasiya MeskovaMilkmaid A Alexander VoytyukTractor Driver A Alexander VorobiyovHighlander

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B Batyr AnnadurdyevField Worker from Kuban C Chinara AlizadeZina's Friend Y Yulia LunkinaZina's Friend S Svetlana PavlovaZina's Friend M Maria ProrvichZina's Friend A Anna TikhomirovaZina's Friend V Victoria YakushevaZina's Friend A Alexei MatrakhovHighlanders A Anton SavichevHighlanders R Roman SimachevHighlanders R Roman TselishchevHighlanders P Pyotr KazmirukField Workers from Kuban A Anton KuznetsovField Workers from Kuban S Sergei MinakovField Workers from Kuban A Andrey RybakovField Workers from Kuban B Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra