Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions
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Lucien, a young composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. His success soon blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his love. Lost Illusions is a new ballet created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgical advice from Guillaume Gallienne. This stylised adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel features thwarted love, ambition, and disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its backdrop.Read moreLess
Lucien, a young composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. His success soon blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his love. Lost Illusions is a new ballet created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgical advice from Guillaume Gallienne. This stylised adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel features thwarted love, ambition, and disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its backdrop.
The story
Lucien, a young composer, sets out to conquer the Parisian scene in search of glory. His success soon blinds him, and he betrays his friends and his love. Lost Illusions is a new ballet created in Moscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky with dramaturgical advice from Guillaume Gallienne. This stylised adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel features thwarted love, ambition, and disillusionment, with 19th century Paris as its backdrop.
Cast & crew
Vladislav LantratovLucien
Diana VishnevaCoralie
Ekaterina ShipulinaFlorine
Artem OvcharenkoThe First Danser (Youth, Robber's Leader)
Egor SimachevCamusot, a banker, Coralie's patron
Alexander FadeyechevDuke, Florine's patron
Anna AntropovaBerenice, Coralie's servant
Chinara AlizadeFriend to Lucien
Anna RebetskayaFriend to LucienExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Leonid Desyatnikov