Nikolai Tsiskaridze left the Bolshoi Theater

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The famous ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze no longer works at the Bolshoi Theater. Yesterday, June 30, his labor contract expired, and the Bolshoi administration announced earlier that it was not going to renew the contract. The prime minister himself called the situation "persecution", and the fans staged several pickets in support of Tsiskaridze. But nevertheless, the artist's career at the Bolshoi ended on a rather solemn note.

On Sunday Tsiskaridze took part in the festival of arts "Visiting Larisa Gergieva", performed a part from the ballet "Scheherazade" and received the title of People's Artist of North Ossetia. As for his departure from the Bolshoi Theater, the artist prefers not to touch on this topic in conversations with journalists.

Recall that Nikolai Maksimovich worked at the Bolshoi for more than twenty years and for the last few years has acted not only as a prime minister, but also as a teacher.

“It’s useless to fight against theatrical management,” said Lucia Lacarra, the prima ballerina of the Bavarian Ballet, about the situation with the former Bolshoi premier. - Especially if we are talking not only about a collision with the head of the ballet, but also with the "big boss" of the whole theater. In general, it is normal that not everyone is happy all the time. It is another matter whether it is worth organizing a revolution because of this. If you're uncomfortable, it's best to just go elsewhere. That's what I would do."

According to most observers, Tsiskaridze will easily find a job. As for the artist, one day he noticed that he could not imagine life without ballet. “I don't know what will happen to me when I stop dancing - I mean dancing classical ballet. I have the role of princes and young men in love. But there is an age when you are already funny in a white leotard with a romantic expression on your face. There are other roles to be done …”.

“There is no need to feel sorry for Nikolai Tsiskaridze,” said colleague of the artist Anastasia Volochkova. - He is a man of world renown. Everything that the Bolshoi Theater, represented by the Iksanov administration, has done to him, which has been ruining the theater for 13 years, is persecution. This scandal is a minus for the Bolshoi Theater. I have such a premonition that Nikolai Tsiskaridze will not say goodbye to the Bolshoi Theater. I would like to wish the Bolshoi Theater such a fate that Nikolai Tsiskaridze returned to this theater as its director."