Bolshoi Ballet’s Diamond Jubilee of landmark London visit

Russia's Bolshoi Ballet returns to the Royal Opera House stage on the 60th anniversary of landmark London performances. At the height of the Cold War, dancers from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet did their bit to thaw East-West relations, flying to London in 1956 to make their first performances to British audiences who had never seen anything like it. This week, they return to mark the 60th anniversary of an event that was a triumph of art over geopolitics in a year when Britain was rocked by the Suez crisis and the Soviet Union invaded Hungary.