Here there is a ballet and detective plot including dreams, kidnappings and joyous releases, a complex and varied ballerina role and a conflict between the male roles – the refined and classical Jean de Brienne and the passionate and pointedly typical oriental Abderakhman, the vast number of characters, meaning a similar number of dancers engaged in the ballet, the colourful character dances and, arguably, Petipa's main pride and glory – the fully-developed dance scenes of classical ensembles.

Cast

Viktoria Tereshkina

Raymonda

Xander Parish

Jean de Brienne

Konstantin Zverev

Abderakhman

Yekaterina Chebykina

Clemence

Nadezhda Batoeva

Henrietta

Yevgeny Konovalov

Bernard

Philipp Stepin

Beranger