On March 27, 2024 in the exhibition halls of the Russian House in Brussels in cooperation with the Bakhrushinsky Theatre Museum the opening of the photo exhibition dedicated to Roland Petit took place.

Dilya Rudenko, Head of the International Department of the Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum, candidate of philological sciences, curator of the exhibition, welcomed the guests and briefly told about Roland Petit.

Oksana Karnovich, Head of the Museum-Apartment of M. Plisetskaya, PhD in Art History (Bakhrushinsky Museum), told about the main stages of Roland Petit’s biography and creative life, about interesting and little-known facts of his productions – both the most famous ballets (“Carmen”, “Notre Dame de Paris”, etc.) and those less familiar to the general public.

At the end of the lecture a film prepared especially for the exhibition was shown, in which Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, People’s Artist of Russia, tells about his work with Roland Petit.

The photo exhibition “RePETITion” is open to the public by appointment by phone +32 2 219 01 33 until April 26, 2024.