Ballet dancers Svetlana Zakharova and Andrei Uvarov perform "Adagio" from Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981011
Ballet dancers Nina Kaptsova and Pavel Dmitrichenko perform "Tango" from Shostakovich's ballet "The Golden Age" during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981010
Ballet dancers perform the "Polovtsian Dances" from Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981009
Ballet dancers perform the "Polovtsian Dances" from Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981008
Soloist Natalia Osipova in a scene from the ballet by Boris Asafiev "Flames of Paris" during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981006
Opera singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981005
Ballet dancer Ivan Vasilyev in a scene from Aram Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981003
Soloists and dancers performing "The Waltz" to the music of Sergei Prokofiev during a gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#981002
Final scene of the festive gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980940
October 28, 2011. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and opera singer Yelena Obraztsova during the gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980939
October 28, 2011. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (center background) with his wife Svetlana (right background) and opera singer Yelena Obraztsova (left background) during the gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980938
October 28, 2011. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (foreground right) and his wife Svetlana (right background) and opera singer Yelena Obraztsova (left foreground) during the gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980937
Audience in the hall during the festive gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980914
From left: The widow of Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin, Naina Yeltsina, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, Boris Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Yumasheva and her son Boris attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction.28.10.2011#980876
Opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction.28.10.2011#980874
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 2nd right, and Russian first lady Svetlana Medvedeva, left, attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction, October 28, 2011. Right: Opera singer Yelena Obraztsova. 2nd left: Bolshoi Theater ballet company artistic director Sergei Filin.28.10.2011#980873
Ex-Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his granddaughter Kseniya attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction.28.10.2011#980872
Audience in the main hall during that gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980869
Widow of first Russian President Boris Yeltsin Naina, ballerina Maya Plesetskaya, composer Rodion Shchedrin (left to right foreground), the daughter of first Russian President Tatyana Yumasheva with her son Boris (left to right background) before the gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980862
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (left to right background) before the gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980861
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and his wife Irina (foreground), Deputy head of the Presidential Administration Alexander Beglov and Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich (left to right background) before the gala concert marking the reopening of the historic Bolshoi Theatre after a six-year renovation.28.10.2011#980860
Russian first lady Svetlana Medvedeva, center, ballet choreographer Yury Grigorovich, left, and Bolshoi Theater's ballet company artistic director Sergei Filin attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction, October 28, 2011.28.10.2011#980851
Russian first lady Svetlana Medvedeva and ballet choreographer Yury Grigorovich attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction, October 28, 2011.28.10.2011#980824
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 2nd right, and Russian first lady Svetlana Medvedeva, left, attend the gala concert marking the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction, October 28, 2011. Right: Opera singer Yelena Obraztsova. 2nd left: Bolshoi Theater ballet company artistic director Sergei Filin.28.10.2011#980823
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction, October 28, 2011.28.10.2011#980815
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at the reopening of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater after six-year reconstruction, October 28, 2011.28.10.2011#980814
