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This 1982 production by the Bolshoi Ballet finds the company interpreting the ballet The Seagull, adapted from Anton Chekhov's play of the same name - with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya and a score by Rodion Shchedrin. The principal dancers include Plisetskaya as The Seagull/Nina Zarechnaya, Alexander Bogatirev as Konstantin Treplev, Lyudmila Butzkova as Arkadina and Boris Efimov as Trigorin. The Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre provides musical accompaniment under the baton of Alexander Lazarev.