The City Hall's press office said that Vilnius Mayor Arturas Zuokas would present Plisetskaya with a Barbora Radvilaite award, named after a 16th-century Lithuanian duchess, at the National Opera and Ballet Theater Wednesday night.
The award ceremony will take place after the first showing of a new production of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet "Anna Karenina." The premiere has been timed to coincide with the dancer's 80th birthday this month.
The Radvilaite medal was established in 2000 to award women for their distinguished service to the city of Vilnius.
Plisetskaya and her composer husband Shchedrin now live between Moscow, Munich, and Lithuania, where they own a house in Trakai. Both have Lithuanian citizenship.
The couple have just arrived in Vilnius from Moscow, where a week-long string of arts events in Plisetskaya's honor culminated with a dance gala at the Kremlin Palace on November 20. Plisetskaya, who had brought performances charged with eroticism and modern choreography to tradition-bound Soviet ballet, came on stage to perform Ave Maya, an act created for her by celebrated French choreographer Maurice Bejart.
