Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus

Director: Jurij Grigorovics

Choreography: Jurij Grigorovics

Starring Mikhail Lobukin (Spartacus), Anna Nikulina (Frygie), Alexandr Volcskov (Crassus), Szvetlana Zaharova (Aegina)

Conductor: Pavel Sorokin

Music director: Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

The Bolshoi’s grandiose epic Spartacus recounts the story of a Roman slave’s fight for freedom. With its famous Khachaturian score, since the 1960s it has been considered one of the greatest ballets in the Bolshoi repertoire.  The choreography by Yuri Grigorovich fills the Bolshoi stage with dynamic scenes of tension and conflict, and gives full expression to the virility and strength for which Russia’s male dancers are renowned.