Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre

Principal dancer, 26, will perform in 9 ballets during 2016 at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre

The Sixth Siberian Ballet Festival is underway in Novosibirsk, running until June.

Completed during the Second World War, and with its first performance three days after peace in Europe on 12 May 1945, it is arguably the most extraordinary building in all Siberia. 

Located on Lenin Square, it includes a vast dome some 60 metres wide and 35 metres high supported by neither columns nor girders. The dome is some 8cm thick, meaning that the ratio to its radius is less than that of a hen's egg. 

The theatre has a capacity of just under 1,800, with a total area of 11,837 square metres and a volume of 294,340 cubic metres.

Prima ballerina was accepting the audience’s plaudits for her debut as Juliet, when she turned to find Romeo on his knee offering her an engagement ring.

Marking the centenary of the Paris premiere of the 'The Rite of Spring', the ballet plays for two nights in Novosibirsk.

The 22 year has twice walked out of Britain, while this is the third time in his rollercoaster year that he has gone on to perform in Siberia.

One month after criminal proceedings launched into 'blasphemous' Tannhauser, officials rule production did not break any laws.

One of the world's great dancers is rediscovering his passion for ballet in Novosibirsk after dramatically quitting the Royal Ballet in the United Kingdom.

A 175-room Marriott hotel is to open on a landmark site in Novosibirsk, while Irtuksk is set to get both a Kempinski and a Hyatt.