On its eighth trip from Russia to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, St. Petersburg’s stellar Mariinsky Ballet brought a work from the classical canon that’s dogged with a story many consider beyond ...

The Mariinsky Ballet finally arrived on the East Coast of the United States 118 years after its initial apparition in a revival of “Raymonda,” a classical piece of the Russian ballet repertoire, at ...

The Boston Ballet premiered Mikko Nissenen’s reimagined one-act version of “Raymonda” as part of their Winter Experience this February. “Raymonda” stands alongside “The Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake ...

Continuing its run of historic ballet firsts, the Segerstrom Center opened its 30th season on Thursday night with the U.S. premiere of the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra’s production of the rare three ...

“I could never follow the story of Raymonda,'” complained Prince Peter Lieven, after seeing the Marius Petipa-Alexander Glazunov ballet, which was premiered at St. Petersburg’s Maryin-sky Theater in ...

In Russia, whose ballet culture has a higher tolerance of such things, the work remains central to the repertoire, complete with foiled kidnap by a muslim villain but minus more than half the original ...

The Crusades are about to launch, and in a castle in the south of France, a group of Hungarian knights is partying. Among them is Jean de Brienne, a cavalier smitten with a local princess. The ...

The Bolshoi Ballet was back in resplendent classical form at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall Friday night with a feast of dancing to satiate appetites unsatisfied by the "modern" new "Romeo and Juliet" ...

Houston Ballet soloist Danbi Kim as Princess Raymonda, visiting principal dancer Chun Wai Chan as Jean and choreographer Stanton Welch rehearing Raymonda. Credit: Photo by Alana Campbell, Courtesy of ...