The European public will be able to see...

Some 150 cinemas, mainly in France, will host the real-time shows of the Flames of Paris ballet on the last day of March, allowing Europeans to feel the atmosphere of the world famous Russian theatre without travelling to Moscow.

The project comes during the Year of France in Russia and Russia in France.

France"s Paris, Avignon, Le Havre, Lyon, Nancy, Nice, Toulon, and Toulouse, as well as Switzerland"s Bern and Lausanne, are among the first cities expected to see the unprecedented shows.

The Bolshoi, in cooperation with the French company Bel Air Mebia, will show more ballets in some 200 French cinemas in the next season, which will start in the fall, the theatre"s Deputy Director General Anton Getman said.

The project will open with Pyotr Tchaikovsky"s Swan Lake on September 26, he said. The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky will follow on December 19.

"It is hard to overestimate the significance of these projects. This is a real step towards the penetration

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