The London Season of the Mikhailovsky Ballet
On 13 July 2010 the Mikhailovsky Ballet started its London season. On 13-25 July the ballet company will give 14 performances at the London Coliseum.
    The London media promise a triumphal return of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. The renowned ballet critic Clement Crisp presented the London Season of the Mikhailovsky Ballet in the Critics’ Choice in the FT stating that the production of Swan Lake premièred in 2009 is ‘of real interest.’ It’s a recreation by Mikhail Messerer of the celebrated Soviet-era staging made at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre in 1956. Debra Crain in the London Times is sure that ‘When the Mikhailovsky comes to the London Coliseum, its unique selling point will be Mikhail Messerer’s restaging of Laurencia, one of the landmark creations of 20th-century Soviet ballet and a work that has been out of sight for 30 years.’ The new version of the legendary production by Vakhtang Chabukiani that had united both traditions of classical ballet and fiery Spanish folk dances was created to mark the centenary of his birth. 

The Season also includes the ballet Giselle presented by the Mikhailovsky Ballet in London two years ago and was called an “exemplary Giselle revealing the spirit of Romantic ballet.”
A ballet for children is a great rarity in any tour program. The ballet Outside Russia the ballet Cipollino was first performed by the Mikhailovsky Theatre in autumn 2009 in the framework of the ballet festival in Mikkeli. The performance was received great critical acclaim and the success gave the idea of including the ballet in the program of the London.

The Triple Bill includes classical masterpieces and contemporary choreography: the new one-act ballet In a Minor Key by Slava Samodurov set to music by Domenico Scarlatti premiered in St Petersburg on 7 July 2010 on the closing of the ballet season of the Mikhailovsky Theatre.