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Article Excerpt
Half a century ago this month an event of seismic proportions hit the dance world. It was the first visit to the West of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. And it was quite a night--October 3, 1956, at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the Leonid Lavrovsky/Sergei Radlov/Serge Prokofiev production of Romeo and Juliet featuring Galina Ulanova, Yuri Zhdanov, and Sergei Koren in the ballet's original 1946 Bolshoi staging, itself only slightly revised from the first 1940 Soviet production by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. Three years later the American impresario Sol Hurok brought the Bolshoi, with the same first program and much the same cast, to New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
On both occasions, this was a big deal. Ulanova with her Juliet, already seen...
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