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Bolshoi Ballet: Ivan The Terrible

Bolshoi Theater of Russia

 $15

  The Englert Theatre

Event Description

Box Office Hours

Tuesday - Friday
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
(319) 688-2653
info@englert.org

Ticketing: $18 Adult General Admission
$15 Student and Senior General Admission
Purchase tickets at the Box Office or Online

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The Bolshoi Ballet: Ivan the Terrible

The Bolshoi Theatre of Russia will be producing live performances in real time of Bolshoi Ballet productions in over 300 cinemas in 22 countries.

The Englert Theatre will be rebroadcasting these performances, allowing the Iowa City community a unique opportunity to experience unprecedented proximity to the artists and take a look behind the scenes at the most renowned ballet company in the world, with occasional interviews and backstage footage.

Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Libretto: Yuri Grigorovich
Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich


As young Ivan IV is crowned, he has to choose one of the 13 Boyar daughters to be his wife and Tsarina. He selects Anastasia, and the two eventually fall deeply in love. When the Boyar’s plot against him and poison his beloved wife, Tsar Ivan finds himself surrounded by enemies. Haunted by dark thoughts and phantoms, he slowly sinks into madness. 

Drawing on the music composed by Prokofiev for the 1944 Eisenstein film, Ivan the Terrible is a work in the true Bolshoi style. Yuri Grigorovich’s powerful and fascinating epic dramatizes Ivan the Terrible’s controversial reign, and portrays events in 16th-century Russia in visually stunning scenes. His choreography, full of vigor, strength and wild jumps, also includes great grace and fragility in the female roles. Sensitive classical and powerful character dance blend to create a lyrical epic, rich in the colors of medieval Russia. Recently revived, Ivan the Terrible is an essential part of the company’s repertoire, a 20th-century classic and a wonderful theatrical experience.

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