MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Bolshoi Theater reopens on Friday with a star-studded gala performance after a more than six-year, $700-million restoration dogged by delays and financial scandal to ...

In 2009 the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater reopened after renovation, the largest in its history. Aleksandr Lukashenko took part in the grand opening of the renovated building. He ...

It is Russia's most famous opera house, where Tchaikovsky premiered Swan Lake, where Russia's premier ballet dancers and symphony musicians are judged for their technical excellence and revered for ...

Everyone expected “The Kholops,” a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run. By Ivan Nechepurenko He drew on ...