Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions (2014): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2014, Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions is a notable film.

What it’s about. This production is a new ballet, with new music and totally new choreography, but it owes its birth to the old libretto. Alexei Ratmansky was thumbing through the anthology 100 Ballet Librettos when he came across the Dmitriev Lost Illusions and immediately noticed its dramaturgical merit and personally found it very attractive. (Good librettos are few and far between and a rare find for a choreographer). Dmitriev’s libretto was later highly praised by the staging consultant for the ballet, Comedie Fransaise actor and director Guillaume Gallienne, and its scenographer, the well-known theatre designer Jerome Kaplan. (Though, of course, the text had to be freed of its patina of Soviet ideology).

Who’s in it. Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions stars Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Alexander Fadeyechev as Duke, Florine's patron and Anna Antropova as Berenice, Coralie's servant.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions page.