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From 13 to 18 December, the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus invites admirers of one of the most beautiful art genres to the Minsk International Christmas Opera Forum, which will take place at the Bolshoi for the 12th time.

On 30 October, Valentin Elizariev turned 75! On 4 November a jubilee evening will take place to celebrate the jubilee of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, People's Artist of the USSR and Belarus. The world ballet stars will perform in Minsk.

On 12 November: Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi. The People's Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan, winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre Award and Musical Heart of the Theatre Award in the nomination "Best Conductor" Artem Makarov will conduct. 

On 25-29 October, the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus will tour in Moscow. The audience will see The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and King Stakh’s Wild Hunt by Vladimir Soltan.

On 10 November, the Queen of the Night from Kazakhstan will appear at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus. The soloist of the Astana Opera Saltanat Akhmetova will perform this most complicated filigree role in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. 

On 24 November 24, admirers of Belarusian opera will hear the soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera tenor Mikhail Pirogov for the first time.

On 8 and 9 September, the summer premiere of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore will take place in the new season at the Bolshoi. 

On 10 and 11 January, the “Hollywood Music” will be performed again at the Belarusian Bolshoi. Maestro Wilhelm Keitel promises the renewed programme that will set the real New Year's mood. 

The Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus announces a competition for vacancies in the ballet company.

On 6 and 7 September, the Bolshoi opens its 90th anniversary season with a fabulously beautiful Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty. 

Dancing ghosts will come to life on the stage in the new season. Giselle (staged by the principal ballet master of the theatre and Honoured Artist of Russia Igor Kolb) will be the first ballet premiere of the 90th season. 

On 11 and 12 July, the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus will close the 89th season with a premiere. Director Anna Motornaya will present her version of the comic opera by Gaetano Donizetti. 

Dear viewers, please note that in the 90th season the time of performances is shifting on weekends!

On 17, 18 and 19 June, the Bolshoi invites the audience to the magical evenings in Nesvizh for the 12th time. The residence of the Radziwill family has long been a second home for the Belarusian theatre and the main summer open-air venue.

On 19 June, the final gala concert of opera and ballet stars of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in Nesvizh will turn into a real summer ball of Urszula Radziwiłł. We invite everyone to the music and dance festival!

A memorandum of understanding was signed with the Erik Sapayev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre

The stars of the Belarusian ballet, as well as principal dancers, soloists and leading artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg and even Cairo will shine on the Minsk stage in a gala concert that will close the Ballet Summer at the Bolshoi on 12 June. 

On Saturday, 25 June, artists of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus will go to Mir. Under the arches of the castle of the 21st century, opera soloists and orchestra artists will give the audience a real feast of music. This creative project will be presented to the viewers of the Mir Castle for the first time.

On 10 June, The Little Humpbacked Horse  will take place to mark the jubilee of the Honoured Art Worker of the Republic of Belarus Nikolai Koliadko! 

On 17 May, the leading opera soloists Marta Danusevich and Taras Prysiazhniuk will tell a "Love Story" in the Chamber Hall. This time the artists will perform Giacomo Puccini’s works.