MOSCOW (AP) â€" The Bolshoi Theater has announced that Makhar Vaziev, the Russian ballet director at Italy's La Scala, will be joining the renowned Moscow theater early next year.
Vaziev will replace Sergei Filin, the artistic director who lost much of his sight as the result of an acid attack organized by a disgruntled dancer in January 2012. The attack shocked the international ballet world and exposed infighting within the theater.
In presenting Vaziev on Monday, Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin said he would take up his new post on March 18 when Filin's contract ends.
From 1995 to 2008, Vaziev was director of the Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, where previously he had been a principal dancer. He has been at La Scala since early 2009.
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