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.
Stars: Svetlana Lunkina, Mikhail Lobukhin, Maria Alexandrova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Denis Savin, Alexei Loparevich
Crew: Alexei Ratmansky (Choreographer), Dmitri Shostakovich (Original Music Composer), Pavel Sorokin (Conductor), Boris Messerer (Set Designer), Adrian Piotrovsky (Story), Fyodor Lopukhov (Story)
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Studio: Bolshoi Theatre
Runtime: 121 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 29, 2012
IMDb: 10
