Coliseum; Royal Opera House, LondonThe Mikhailovsky Ballet is St Petersburg's second classical dance company, and half the size of its grander sister, the Mariinsky. In 2007 the company hit the headlines when a wealthy fruit importer, Vladimir Kekhman, became general director and poured tens of millions of dollars into the state-owned theatre. Six years later things have taken a downturn for Kekhman's JFC Group, curr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PM on March 30, 2013