The Kirov Ballet at The Lowry 13th - 17th May

The Kirov Ballet from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, one of the World’s great ballet companies, return to The Lowry.

The 200-year-old Russian company, under the Artistic Direction of Valery Gergiev and ballet Director Makhar Vaziev, will perform two full-length ballets - Balanchine’s shimmering Jewels and Don Quixote, one of the highlights of the classical canon, as well as a Gala Evening of balletic fireworks.

The company is led by Uliana Lopatkina.  She is joined by principal dancers Viktoria Tereshkina, Anton Korsakov, Andrian Fadeyev, Sofia Gumerova, Alina Somova, Igor Kolb, Anton Korsakov and Leonid Sarafanov and the company’s ravishing corps de ballet.  The company’s visit is in association with Victor Hochhauser.