Boris Eifman appreciated the upcoming ballet "Crime and Punishment" at the Bolshoi Theater

The St. Petersburg State Academic Boris Eifman Ballet Theater will give a series of performances on the Historical Stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. In an interview with Izvestia, the People's Artist of Russia, choreographer, spoke about the upcoming tour in Moscow. They will begin on July 22, the choreographer's birthday. The audience will be presented with the Moscow premiere of a plastic reading of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. The next screenings of the play will take place on July 23 and 24.

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Performances by Benoit, Bakst, Roerich and Goncharova returned to the stage of the main theater of the country.

"My ballet Crime and Punishment is a real achievement. No, I'm not crazy with conceit. Indeed, I consider the new performance to be the result of work on creating a unique style of our theater. There is such depth there, inspired by the lofty ideas of Dostoevsky, the music of Mahler, Tishchenko and Metropolitan Hilarion... A work that gets into the soul, the heart of a person. This is extremely important today," Boris Eifman confessed to Izvestia.

And from July 25 to July 27, the troupe will perform the historical choreographic blockbuster "Russian Hamlet", which tells about the dramatic fate of Tsarevich Pavel, the future Russian Emperor Paul I.

Read the full interview with Boris Eifman in the exclusive Izvestia article:

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