Bolshoi Theater of Belarus performs "Easter Bells"

21 апреля 2017

The National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus performs the music programme “Easter Bells”. This evening, the foyer of the Bolshoi Theatre turned into a bell tower – the sounds of the “prayer in bronze” filled the temple of art.

Bogdan Berezkin, the director of the school of bell ringers of the Minsk Eparchial leadership, played the programme on the only mobile Belarusian belfry. During the Easter week, bell chimes not only call believers to liturgies – the chimes can be heard at any time.

The music programme was performed at the Bolshoit Theatre for the first time. It was prepared especially for the first national ballet "Passions (Rogneda)" directed by People’s Artist of USSR Valentin Elizariev. The ballet became a sensation at the Benois de la Danse International Ballet Festival in 1996, and was awarded the prize “Benois de la Danse”.