Live broadcasts of the Grand ballet performances on YouTube

Alla Zabrovskaya, Director of Public Relations of Google Russia.

Starting from March 11, 2012, all the fans of ballet performances of the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia, with an Internet connection, but do not have the opportunity to attend the theater as often as I would like to be able to watch the performances straight line. Thus, they can join the millions of fans around the world theater - now live broadcasts of the Bolshoi theater are held in dozens of different countries - from the U.S. to Australia.

The webcast will be held live on the official channel of the Bolshoi Theater on YouTube at. www. youtube. com / bolshoi. The first ballet performance, Corsair will be available online - Ballet in three acts staged. Alexei Ratmansky. and. Yuri Burlaka.

Launch of live ballet performances became a logical continuation of successful cooperation between the Bolshoi Theater and Google. At the end of October 2011 on YouTube was broadcast live gala concert in honor of the opening. Historic theater scene. It looked about 28 thousand. people in Russia, USA, UK, Switzerland and even Mexico, Argentina and Peru.