Exeter Picture House - Bolshoi Ballet Season Live

A wonderful opportunity to see live screenings by satellite direct from Moscow of the world famous Bolshoi Ballet's 2011-2012 performance programme. All screenings will be shown in High Definition.

Live Screening Schedule:

Esmeralda - 9 October - 4pm
A sumptuous ballet in three acts, based on the Victor Hugo story of Notre Dame de Paris.

Sleeping Beauty - 20 November - 3pm
A ballet in two acts based on the well-known fairy tale, with a magical score by Tchaikovsky.

The Nutcracker - 18 December - 3pm
The perennial Christmas favourite, the tale of toys that come to life at night, with enchanting music by Tchaikovsky.

Le Corsaire - 11 March - 3pm
A swashbuckling romantic tale of the rescue of a beautiful slave from her tyrannical master by a handsome pirate, with some of ballet's most famous individual passages.

The Bright Stream - 29 April - 4pm
During a harvest festival at a collective farm on the Russian steppe, a Moscow dance troupe arrives to entertain the workers, causing all manner of hilarious trouble in their interactions with the locals.

Raymonda - 24 June - 4pm
With a lush, exotic score by Alexander Glazunov, Raymonda tells the tale of a French noblewoman betrothed to a knight of the Crusades, and her attempted abduction by a spurned Saracen rival.

Book in advance to avoid disappointment.

Exeter’s recently refurbished cinema, the Exeter Picturehouse, is part of the successful Picturehouse Cinema group who operate over 55 independent cinemas across the UK.