Live performance of the ballet about a nutcracker doll that comes to life at the stroke of midnight. Yuri Grigorovich directs the Bolshoi Ballet with Tchaikovsky's score conducted by Pavel Klinichev and performed by the Bolshoi State Theatre Orchestra. The dancers include Nina Kaptsova, Artem Ovcharenko and Denis Savin.

Live performance of the ballet composed by Boris Asafiev, who based the music on his impressions of the French Revolution. The dancers of the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Company perform, with Pavel Sorokin conducting the orchestra.

Moscow's legendary Bolshoi Ballet perform the classic tale of a slave who leads an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans, set to music by Aram Khachaturian and choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. Acclaimed Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta takes the lead role.