“A series of setbacks in the £400m refurbishment of the Bolshoi theatre has put back its reopening by at least another two years, it emerged yesterday. The legendary [theatre], home to the Bolshoi opera and ballet companies, closed in 2005 for a total overhaul after decades of neglect turned the building into a fire hazard with a decaying structure and basements crumbling into an underground stream. The Moscow venue was supposed to reopen in spring last year.”