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MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) --In Russian, "bolshoi" means "big" -- and everything about the Bolshoi Theatre really is larger than life. The vast hall, with its gilt stucco molding, has seats for more ...

Reporting from Moscow — — The general director of the Bolshoi Theatre has confirmed that what’s seemed like a never-ending reconstruction of the Bolshoi’s historic building is finally ...

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The rose-and-white-columned façade of Russia’s famed Bolshoi Theater has stood shrouded in construction curtains and spiky scaffolding for four years — and it looks to stay that way longer ...