The Bolt Ballet Suite - Shostakovich

The Bolt, Op. 27, is a ballet music score written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931. The score is for a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes, with a libretto by Vladimir Smirnov. It premiered on 8 April 1931, at the Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad, and choreographed by Fyodor Lopukhov. Shostakovich composed a suite from the ballet, Op. 27a, with 8 movements: Overture (Introduction) The Bureaucrat (Polka) The Drayman's Dance (Variations) Koelkov's Dance with Friends (Tango) Intermezzo The Dance of the Colonial Slave-Girl The Appeaser General Dance and Apotheosis