Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide

Overview

On his wedding day, the young Scotsman James is awakened with a kiss from an ethereal winged creature, a Sylph. Entranced by her beauty, James risks everything to pursue an unattainable love. La Sylphide is one of the world’s oldest surviving ballets, and a treasure in Danish ballet master August Bournonville’s style. Staged for the Bolshoi by Bournonville expert Johan Kobborg, this production is the ultimate romantic masterpiece. Captured live from the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

Directed by Vincent Bataillon

Top cast

Vyacheslav Lopatin

James

Ekaterina Krysanova

Slyph

Anna Rebetskaya

Effie

Denis Savin

Gurn

Irina Ziborova

Madge, a witch

I

Irina Semirechenskaya

Anna, James' mother

E

Evgeny Golovin

Two Friends

Alexander Vodopetov

Two Friends

I

Ivan Alexeyev

Pas de six

K

Klim Efimov

Pas de six

Svetlana Pavlova

Pas de six

Maria Prorvich

Pas de six

A

Anna Proskurnina

Pas de six

Igor Tsvirko

Pas de six

Andrei Sitnikov

Old man musician

Anna Tikhomirova

The First Sylph

Chinara Alizade

Two Sylphs

Yulia Lunkina

Two Sylphs

B

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

Details