At New York’s Lincoln Center Festival in July, the Bolshoi Ballet will dance the U.S. premiere of The Taming of the Shrew choreographed by Christophe Maillot and set to music from multiple Shostakovich film scores. Included is music from Moscow, Cheryomushki; Counterplan; Alone; Hamlet; Pirogov; The Gadfly; Sofia Perovskaya; and The Great Citizen, as well as excerpts from Symphony No. 9 and String Quartet No. 8. Igor Dronov will conduct the New York City Ballet Orchestra. The work has sets by Ernest Pignon-Ernest, costumes by Augustin Maillot, and lighting and video projection by Dominique Drillot. Jean Rouaud is dramatist for the work, a rethinking of the Shakespeare comedy, that was premiered in 2014 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and was later performed in London.
Posted July 25, 2017
