The tour of Boris Eifman’s St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater in Japan began in the western city of Otsu, located near the ancient capital of Kyoto.

Nearly 2 thousand of those gathered watched the ballet “Anna Karenina”, staged after the novel by Leo Tolstoy, to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. This is the first performance of the theater in Japan since 1998.

Now another theater has returned to Japan, with a new repertoire, artists and a completely different level of skill.

After Otsu, the Ballet Theater will perform in Shizuoka, and the tour will end in a week with a series of performances on one of the main scenes of Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.

In addition to Anna Karenina, the tour also included the ballet “Roden, Her Eternal Idol” to the music of Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saens and Jules Massenet.