The Bolshoi News

VIDEO: A student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts is about to spend his summer doing ballet at the Bolshoi in Moscow.

More than a hundred Russian ballet fans rallied in Moscow on Saturday in support of a top dancer who says he is being chased out of the Bolshoi Theatre due to disputes in the wake of an acid attack on its artistic director earlier this year.

MOSCOW, June 13 Russian police are investigating a suspected embezzlement of 90 million rubles in tax-payer money allocated for remodeling work at the Bolshoi Theater , the Interior Ministry said Thursday.

RUSSIA'S interior ministry says it has uncovered a $US2.8 million theft of state money allocated for a major refit of the Bolshoi Theatre in the latest scandal to hit the historic site.

A red carpet photo op: Actor Brad Pitt posed for a photo as he walked the red carpet for Sunday's Australian premiere of his film “World War Z” in Sydney.

In this Friday, April 12, 2013 file photo Bolshoi principal dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze walks to a court to take part in the first hearing of a civil lawsuit he is bringing against the Bolshoi theater's general director as part of an effort to unseat him, in Moscow, Russia.

The Bolshoi theater is having another go at Prince Igor opera with the new production staged by a famous Russian stage actor and director Yuri Lyubimov.

BOLSHOI means big in Russian and the Bolshoi Ballet have certainly lived up to their name in the opening of their exclusive Brisbane season.

Bolshoi means "big" in Russia, and that categorises not only the jumps but the whole scope of the two productions the company is presenting in Australia in this once-in-a-generation opportunity.

A hundred years ago, the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris witnessed the scandalous premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" in a production by Vaslav Nijinsky, with sets and costumes by Nicholas Roerich, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.