It was said of Mozart and Bach that they wrote "just the right number of notes"...not too many, not too few...just the right number..
This isn't by the greatest composer ever..actually a second tier...but the muse got to him, the Bolshoi staged it to perfection..the dancing is out of the realm of what we know.
Next time you watch Spartacus Blood and Sand on some HBO thing or Showtime...well take a few minutes and see a different version.