The Bright Stream review " Bolshoi's gentle farce brings big guffaws
Royal Opera House, London Alexei Ratmansky's choreography " to Shostakovich's score full of melody and gusto " is agile and substantial and, with its cross-dressing sylph and dog on a bicycle, full of humour The story behind the Bright Stream may be a more intriguing drama than the fun but frivolous tale it tells on stage. The original ballet was made in 1935 by the mostly forgotten choreographer Fedor Lopukhov, to o…