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Russian theatre drops directors who spoke out against Ukraine war

The public reacted with outrage to the cancellation of Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet Nureyev, a controversial production that premiered at the Bolshoi in 2017 [File: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP]

Russia’s renowned Bolshoi Theatre has abruptly cancelled a series of shows by two directors, both of whom had voiced their opposition to the war in Ukraine.

The theatre gave no official reason for dropping Timofey Kuliabin’s production of the opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov’s ballet Nureyev.

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