Today's Bolshoi Theater

Bolshoi Ballet and Opera Theatre. Click to enlarge Bolshoi Ballet and Opera Theatre. Click to enlarge At present, almost 2500 people work at the Bolshoi Theatre.

The general director of the Bolshoi theatre is Anatoly Ixanov.

Now the musical director and the chief conductor of the Bolshoi theatre - Alexander Vedernikov.

The principal guest conductor of the Bolshoi theatre - Nikolay Alexseev.

Art director of the Boshoi ballet troupe - Boris Akimov.

Art director of the Bolshoi opera troupe - Makvala Kasrashvili.

The creative team numbers about 900 actors of opera, chorus, ballet, orchestra, pantomime group, children' s choir.

Besides participating in performances, the actors take partin various concerts (solo or ensemble ones) in the Beethoven's Hall or in the White Foyer of the theater. The Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Symphony Orchestra, the Brass Band, the Children' s Choir, the Percussion Instruments Ensemble and the Chamber Group of the Orchestra show exceptional concert programs.

Bolshoi Ballet and Opera Theatre. Click to enlarge Today, the whole world knows the highest mastery of our performers. These are the conductors - Alexander Vedernikov, Alexander Kopylov, Fuat Mansurov, Pavel Sorokin, Alexander Sotnikov, Vladimir Andropov, Alexei Stepanov, Pavel Klinichev; opera soloists - Elena Evsejeva, Maria Gavrilova, Elena Zelenskaya, Makvala Kasrashvili, Marina Lapina, Larissa Rudakova, Elena Bryleva, Lolitta Semenina, Irina Dolzhenko, Tatiana Erastova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Siniavskaya, Olga Teriushnova, Marina Shutova, Sergei Gaidei, Lev Kuznetsov, Oleg Kulko, Andrei Dunaev, Vsevolod Grivnov, Aleoaider Lomonosov, Badri Maisuradze, Zurab Sotkilava, Vitaliy Taraschenko, Juri Vedenejev, Vladislav Verestnikov, Serguei Murzaev, Vladimir Redkin, Juri Nechaev, Pavel Chernykh, Piotr Gluboky, Vladimir Matorin, Maksim Mikhailov, Eugene Nesterenko, Mikhail Kazakov, Alexander Kiselev, Nikolai Nizienko, Viacheslav Pochapsky; ballet soloists - Nadezhda Grachiova, Galina Stepanenko, Nina Ananiashvili, Anna Antonicheva, Maria Alexandrova, Yekaterina Shipulina, Ilze Liepa, Elena Andrienko, Elina Palshina, Inna Petrova, Marianna Ryzhkina, Anastasia Jatsenko, Juliana Malkhasyants, Anastasia Goryacheva, Nina Kaptsova, Dmitri Belogolovtsev, Konstantin Ivanov, Yuri Klevtsov, Vladimir Moissejev, Vladimir Neporozhny, Mark Peretokin, Alexei Popovchenko, Alexander Petukhov, Ilia Ryzhakov, Andrei Uvarov, Sergei Filin, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Dmitri Gudanov, Jan Godovsky, Gennadi Janin among others.

Today's Bolshoi Theater means the grandeur of traditions being developed in the contemporaneity, e means the scale of artistic individualities gathered in its troupe, it means the repertoire, it means concentrated creative life, it means daily hard work and regular improvement of mastery.

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