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The Mariinsky Ballet 50th Anniversary Season

25 July - 13 August, The Royal Opera House

Fifty years ago the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet made its first appearance in the West and, under the management of Victor Hochhauser, appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in June 1961. This summer the ROH celebrates the golden jubilee of that visit with another season - one of so many happy returns under that same banner. Much, vastly much, has changed in the world, and especially in Russia in these five decades, typified by the reversion of Leningrad to its Imperial title of St. Petersburg and the name of the Mariinsky Opera House to its original tribute to the Tsarina Marie. Yet one immutable fact remains for ballet-goers, and that is the nobility and grace of the dancing which the Mariinsky artists display. 

See the Mariinsky Ballet perform Swan Lake, Homage to Fokine: Chopiniana / The Firebird / Scheherazade, Don Quixote, Balanchine / Robbins: Scotch Symphony / In the Night / Ballet Imperial, Anna Karenina and La Bayadère.

Visit www.roh.org.uk for more info and to book tickets or call the box office on +44 (0) 20 7304 4000