Bolshoi
Famous dance company
Bolshoi is a Russian word meaning "big" or "grand," known to English speakers almost entirely through the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow's historic ballet and opera house.
References to the Bolshoi typically mean this theater or its ballet company: She dreamed of dancing with the Bolshoi.
Art of staged performance
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- Swan LakeRomantic Russian ballet
- prima ballerinaLead female in ballet
- corps de balletBallet's ensemble performers
Spartacus · Nutcracker · Sleeping Beauty · classical repertoire · Giselle · Don Quixote · Romeo and Juliet · defection
Russia's capital city
- opera houseVenue for staged singing
- chandelierDecorative suspended light fixture
- red velvetCocoa cake dyed crimson
- giltCovered with gold
renovation · auditorium · acoustics · neoclassical · main stage · curtain · orchestra pit · landmark
Imposing or splendid
- bigOf great size
- greatLarge or excellent
- largeOf great size
- magnificenceImpressive beauty or scale
supreme · major · scale · grandeur · imposing · monumental · vastness · impressive
theatre
Art of staged performance
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- Swan LakeRomantic Russian ballet
- prima ballerinaLead female in ballet
corps de ballet · Spartacus · Nutcracker · Sleeping Beauty · classical repertoire · Giselle · Don Quixote · Romeo and Juliet · defection
Moscow
Russia's capital city
- opera houseVenue for staged singing
- chandelierDecorative suspended light fixture
- red velvetCocoa cake dyed crimson
gilt · renovation · auditorium · acoustics · neoclassical · main stage · curtain · orchestra pit · landmark · cultural institution
grand
Imposing or splendid
magnificence · supreme · major · scale · grandeur · imposing · monumental · vastness · impressive · stature
- Russian EntitiesAeroflot, Yandex, Kremlin, RT, Pravda
- performing artsacting, dance, music, drama, theater
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms
- RussiaRussia, Moscow, Kremlin, Red Square, Siberia
- balletballet, ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet shoes, tutus
- Russian Culturematryoshka, Kremlin, Hermitage, balalaika, samovar
- Bolshevik Revolution1917 communist coup in Russia
- Bolshoi BalletPremier Russian dance ensemble
- Bolshevik PartyLenin's revolutionary socialist organization
- Bolshoi TheatrePremier Moscow performance hall