‘Jewels’, glittering brightly at the Bolshoi

This weekend, Moscow is THE hot place to be for ballet as the Bolshoi revels in the glory of George Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’. Watch the Bolshoi in rehearsal led by the incomparable Merrill Ashley.

At its 1967 première by New York City Ballet, Clive Barnes wrote: “It is open to doubt whether even George Balanchine has ever created a work in which the inspiration was so sustained, the invention so imaginative or the concept so magnificent.” The Bolshoi Ballet adds its own special lustre to Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’

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