The Bolshoi Ballet
Vintage 1894
"Coppélia in HD"
Bolshoi Ballet
Empire 25 Theater
New York, NY
June 10, 2018
There was no more joyous place to be in New York on a gray damp Sunday than inside a standard issue (vertical) multiplex in wildly overcrowded Midtown. The reason? Sergei Vikharev's staging, for the Bolshoi in 2009, of "Coppélia" based on that of Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti for the Imperial Russian Ballet in 1894. The production is – even on film – proof of the magic of