Ticket giveaway for Romeo and Juliet

Tours en l'air has one ticket to give away to opening night, Wednesday 11 March, for the National Ballet of Canada's Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky. This is one of the best seats in the house (value $200), third row from the front looking across the aisle to the stage. Casting (subject to change): Guillaume Cote, Elena Lobsanova. Contest ends March 4. 
To enter, send an email with the subject line TYBALT to
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National Ballet of Canada Romeo and Juliet casting March 2020

Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky. All casting subject to change. All performances at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto. To buy tickets click here.

	Juliet	Romeo	Mercutio	Tybalt	Nurse	Friar Laurence	Paris	Benvolio
March 11 @ 730 pm	Elena Lobsanova	Guillaume Côté	Jack Bertinshaw	Piotr Stanczyk	Lorna Geddes	Peter Ottmann	Ben Rudisin	Skylar Campbell*
March 12 @ 2 pm	Chelsy Meiss	Brendan Saye	Donald Thom*	Joe Chapman*	Rebekah Rimsay	Tomas Schramek	Ben Rudisin	Spencer Hack*
March 12 @ 730 pm	Heather Ogden	Harrison James	Skylar Campbell	Piotr Stanczyk	Alejandra Perez-Gomez	Peter Ottmann	Christopher Gerty*	Spencer Hack*
March 13 @ 730 pm	Sonia Rodriguez	Naoya Ebe	Donald Thom*	Joe Chapman*	Rebekah Rimsay	Tomas Schramek	Christopher Gerty*	Siphesihle November*
March 14 @ 2 pm	Heather Ogden	Harrison James	Skylar Campbell	Brendan Saye	Alejandra Perez-Gomez	Peter Ottmann	Christopher Gerty*	Spencer Hack*
March 14 @ 730 pm	Jurgita Dronina	Guillaume Côté	Jack Bertinshaw	Piotr Stanczyk	Lorna Geddes	Peter Ottmann	Donald Thom*	Skylar Campbell*
March 15 @ 2 pm	Sonia Rodriguez	Naoya Ebe	Donald Thom*	Joe Chapman*	Rebekah Rimsay	Tomas Schramek	Christopher Gerty*	Siphesihle November*
March 18 @ 730 pm	Elena Lobsanova	Guillaume Côté	Jack Bertinshaw	Piotr Stanczyk	Lorna Geddes	Peter Ottmann	Ben Rudisin	Skylar Campbell*
March 19 @ 730 pm	Svetlana Lunkina	Harrison James	Skylar Campbell	Brendan Saye	Alejandra Perez-Gomez	Tomas Schramek	Donald Thom*	Spencer Hack*
March 20 @ 730 pm	Elena Lobsanova	Guillaume Côté	Jack Bertinshaw	Piotr Stanczyk	Lorna Geddes	Peter Ottmann	Ben Rudisin	Skylar Campbell*
March 21 @ 2 pm	Svetlana Lunkina	Harrison James	Skylar Campbell	Piotr Stanczyk	Alejandra Perez-Gomez	Tomas Schramek	Donald Thom*	Spencer Hack*
March 21 @ 730 pm	Chelsy Meiss	Brendan Saye	Donald Thom*	Joe Chapman*	Rebekah Rimsay	Tomas Schramek	Ben Rudisin	Spencer Hack*
March 22 @ 2 pm	Jurgita Dronina	Guillaume Côté	Piotr Stanczyk	Brendan Saye	Lorna Geddes	Peter Ottmann	Donald Thom*	Skylar Campbell*

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Casting Bolshoi Giselle in cinema January 26

https://youtu.be/gJnVdszyCyM
 
The casting for Alexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of Giselle, to be broadcast in cinemas worldwide starting January 26, has been announced

Giselle	Olga Smirnova
Count Albrecht	Artemy Belyakov
Berthe, Giselle's mother	Anna Antropova
Hans, the gamekeeper	Denis Savin
Giselle’s friends	Xenia Averina Bruna Cantanhede Gaglianone Antonina Chapkina Olga Kishnyova Elizaveta Kruteleva Yulia Skvortsova Tatiana Tiliguzova Alexandra Trikoz
Duke, Bathilde’s father	Alexei Loparevich
Bathilde, the Count’s fiancée	Nelli Kobakhidze
Wilfreed, the Count’s squire	Yuri Ostrovsky
Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis	Angelina Vlashinets
The Wilis
	Xenia Zhiganshina
Zulmé	Anastasia Denisova
Peasant Pas de Deux	Daria Khokhlova Alexei Putintsev

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Bolshoi Flames of Paris Cinema Broadcast: Cast & Synopsis

 https://youtu.be/H-G_7kLPFrA


Bolshoi in Cinema broadcast of Alexei Ratmansky's Flames of Paris in select Cineplex theatres in Canada, March 4 at 1255. Click here for Canadian locations. Click here for locations and dates elsewhere.

Jeanne, daughter of Gaspard and Lucille	Margarita Shrainer
Jerome, her brother	Denis Savin
Philippe, a Marseillais	Igor Tsvirko
The Marquis Costa de Beauregard	Semyon Chudin
Adeline, his daughter	Ana Turazashvili
Mireille de Poitiers, an actress	Kristina Kretova
Antoine Mistral, an actor	Artem Ovcharenko
Jarcasse, an old woman	Irina Zibrova
Gilbert, captain of the Marseillais	Alexander Vodopetov
King Louis XVI	Gennadi Yanin
Queen Marie Antoinette	Nelli Kobakhidze
Gaspard, a peasant	Yuri Ostrovsky
Lucille, his wife	Anna Antropova
Amour in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Daria Khokhlova
Apparition of Bride in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Olga Kishnyova
Friends to Armida in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Yulia Grebenshchikova Elvina Ibraimova Alyona Kovalyova Olga Marchenkova
Furies in the ballet Rinaldo and Armida	Daria Bochkova Anastasia Gubanova Anastasia Kazakova Tatiana Lazareva Svetlana Pavlova Xenia Zhiganshina
Huntsmen, friends to the Marquis	Batyr Annadurdyev Anton Gaynutdinov Alexei Gaynutdinov Maxim Oppengeym
Auvergne dance	Kristina Karasyova Oxana Sharova Ivan Alexeyev Vitaly Biktimirov
Marseillaise dance	Andrei Bolotin Georgy Gusev Alexei Matrakhov
President of the Convention	Alexander Fadeyechev
Master of Ceremonies	Alexei Loparevich
David, an artist	Egor Simachev
Sutler	Anastasia Vinokur

Act I
Scene 1
A suburb of Marseilles, the town which gave its name to the French National anthem. Through the forest a large group of people are on the move. This is the battalion of the Marseillais who are on their way to Paris. A cannon which they are taking with them indicates their intentions. Among the men of Marseilles is Philippe.
It is by the cannon that Philippe makes the acquaintance of the peasant girl Jeanne. He kisses her on parting. Jeanne’s brother, Jerome, longs to join the Marseillais.
In the distance is the castle of the Marquis Costa de Beauregard, the local seigneur. Hunters are returning to the castle, among whom are the Marquis and his daughter, Adeline.
The ’noble’ Marquis makes advances to the pretty peasant girl, Jeanne. The latter tries to free herself from his pawing, but only manages to do so with the help of Jerome, who comes to hissister’s defense.
Jerome is beaten up by the hunters from the Marquis’s suite, and thrown into a prison cellar. Adeline, who has observed the scene, frees Jerome, and in their hearts a mutual feeling for each other is born. The sinister, old woman Jarcasse, who has been employed by the Marquis to keep an eye on his daughter, informs her adored master of the escape. The Marquis slaps his daughter and orders her to get into a carriage, accompanied by Jarcasse. They are going to Paris.
Jerome bids farewell to his parents. It is not safe for him to remain on the Marquis’s estate. He and Jeanne go off with a detachment of the Marseillais. Their parents are inconsolable.
Volunteers are enrolling in the detachment. Together with the crowd, the men of Marseilles dance a farandola. The men put on red caps in place of their old headwear. Jerome is given a gun by the leader of the insurgents, Gilbert. Jerome and Philippe ’harness’ themselves to the cannon. The detachment moves off to Paris to the strains of the Marseillaise.

Scene 2
The sound of the Marseillaise gives way to an elegant minuet. The royal palace. The Marquis and Adeline have arrived here. The Master of Ceremonies announces the start of the ball.
Rinaldo and Armida, a court ballet, with the Paris stars Mireille de Poitiers and Antoine Mistral: Sarabande — Armida and her friends. Armida’s forces return from a campaign. Prisoners are led in. Among them is Prince Rinaldo.
Amour aims an arrow at the hearts of Armida and Rinaldo. Variation — Amour. Armida frees Rinaldo.
Pas de deux Rinaldo and Armida.
The phantom of Rinaldo’s bride appears. Rinaldo abandons Armida and sails off in a boat after the phantom. Armida conjures up a storm. Waves cast Rinaldo onto the seashore, he is surrounded by furies.
Dance — Furies. Rinaldo falls dead at Armida’s feet.

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette make their entrance. Greetings, oaths of loyalty and toasts to the prosperity of the monarchy follow.
The tipsy Marquis chooses the Actress as his next ’victim’, and starts to ’court’ her in the same way as he had Jeanne, the peasant girl. The strains of the Marseillaise are heard from the street. The courtiers and officers panic. Making use of this, Adeline escapes from the palace.
Act II
Scene 3
A square in Paris, into which the men of Marseilles march, among whom are Philippe, Jerome and Jeanne. A shot from their cannon is to give the signal for the start of the assaulton the Tuileries.
Suddenly, in the square, Jerome catches sight of Adeline. He rushes over to her. The sinister, old woman Jarcasse spies on their meeting.
In the meantime, in honor of the arrival of the detachment of men from Marseilles, a barrel of wine is rolled out into the square. Dances get underway: the Auvergne dance gives way to theMarseillaise dance, then the temperamental dance of the Basques starts up, in which all the chief characters take part: Jeanne, Philippe, Adeline, Jerome and Gilbert, the captain of the Marseillais.
In the crowd, flushed with wine, petty brawls break out here and there. Stuffed dolls of Louis and Marie Antoinette are torn to pieces. Jeanne with a spear in her hands dances the carmagnole to the singing of the crowd. Philippe, who is drunk, lights the fuse, there is volley of cannon fire, after which the crowd dashes off to storm the Tuileries.
Against a background of shots being fired and the beating of drums, Adeline and Jerome declare their love for each other. They are oblivious to what is going on around them.
The Marseillais break into the palace. They are led by Jeanne, waving a flag. Fighting. The palace is taken.
Scene 4
The crowd fills the square which is decorated with lanterns. Members of the Convention and new government mount the tribune.
The crowd rejoices. The famous artists, Mireille de Poitiers and Antoine Mistral, who before had entertained the king and his courtiers, now perform the Freedom dance for the people. The new dance is little different to the old, only now, the actress holds the Republican flag in her hands. Artist David is sketching the celebration.
By the cannon, from which the first volley had been fired, the President of the Convention unites the hands of Jeanne and Philippe. These are the first young newly weds of the new Republic
The sound of Jeanne and Philippe’s betrothal dance gives way to the muffled thuds of the falling knife of the guillotine.
The condemned Marquis is led in. Seeing her father, Adeline rushes over to him, but Jerome, Jeanne and Philippe beg her not to give herself away. In order to revenge the Marquis, Jarcasse betrays Adeline, revealing her true origins. Roused to fury, the crowd demands her death. Beside himself with despair, Jerome tries to save Adeline, but to no avail. She is guillotined. Frightened for their lives, Jeanne and Philippe restrain the struggling Jerome.
The celebration continues. To the strains of Ca ira, the triumphant populace moves downstage towards the audience.

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