Where Are All The Crowds For The Bolshoi Ballet’s Cinema-Casts?

Alastair Macaulay: “This year some of us, but too few, have watched direct transmissions from the Royal Ballet in London, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. … Is it because these broadcasts happen sporadically, at various times of day and the week, that [venues have] not been packed? … We don’t see the Bolshoi enough that we can afford to skip these sightings.”