The Mikhailovsky Ballet

This spring the Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet company will take to the stage of the London Coliseum for a third time.

The programme will include ballets by Nacho Duato, in addition to classics Giselle, Don Quixote, and Laurencia.

The performances will feature Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet stars Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, and Leonid Sarafanov, as well as invited soloists Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomes.

Laurencia arouses particular interest, as a production from the 'golden age' of Soviet ballet that is not being performed anywhere else. It has been revived by the Mikhailovsky Theatre's Principal Guest Ballet Master Mikhail Messerer, an acknowledged expert on ballet heritage, who is in great demand all over the world as a teacher. On 2nd and 3rd April London audiences will see Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, whose performance of the ballet critics called 'phenomenal'.