01 February 2019 (Fri), 19:00 World famous Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre (established 1776) - Marvellous Main (Historic) Stage - Classical Ballet Ballet Gala in Honor of Ekaterina Maximova (Best Dances from different Ballets, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet Stars only). Gala Night in Commemoration of the 80th Tickets available only at OperaAndBallet.com
Schedule for Ballet Gala in Honor of Ekaterina Maximova (Best Dances from different Ballets, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet Stars only). Gala Night in Commemoration of the 80th 2022
Ballet company: Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Gala Night in Commemoration
of the 80th Anniversary
Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova (1 February
1939 – 28 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international
renown.
Maximova was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Maximova
enjoyed her greatest successes in Giselle, Don Quixote,
Cinderella and The Nutcracker. On 8 May 1966, Maximova was one of
the Bolshoi stars who danced in the last program presented at the old
Metropolitan Opera House on Thirty-ninth Street and Broadway. Maximova was
coached by the legendary ballerina Galina Ulanova.
Maximova performed with the Bolshoi Ballet from 1958
until 1980, often performing opposite her husband Vladimir Vasiliev. She and her
husband gained wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli's filmed
version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata (1983). Both performed in
Spanish costume in the divertissements composed for the equivalent of Act
II, scene 2, though she with much diminished technique in comparison to her
husband.
Her greatest successes were the roles of Kitri in Don
Quixote, Clara (called Maria in the Bolshoi production) in The
Nutcracker, and the title roles in Giselle and Cinderella.
When the Bolshoi Ballet toured to the United States for the first time in 1959,
Maximova also performed as a guest artist with the Metropolitan Opera in leading
roles in The Stone Flower and other ballets. She later was one of the
Bolshoi stars who danced in the last program presented at the old Metropolitan
Opera House on Thirty-ninth Street and Broadway on 8 May 1966. Following her
career as a dancer, Maximova was a coach with the ballet and a member of the
GITIS Institute faculty. On 27 April 2009 she died aged 70 in Moscow,
Russia.
Schedule for Ballet Gala in Honor of Ekaterina Maximova (Best Dances from different Ballets, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet Stars only). Gala Night in Commemoration of the 80th 2022
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