In 1998, the renowned choreographer Yuri Grigorovich from the Bolshoi came to Chişinău to direct his version of "The Nutcracker", originally played at the Bolshoi in 1966. The company now toured to Moscow, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Los Angeles. In 1999 it brought productions of Swan Lake and "Sleeping Beauty" to the UK. Since 2001 the company performed Grigorovich’s "Nutcracker" several times in the UK. This was the first time the production had been seen in this country since the Bolshoi performed it in London in the early seventies. The Moldova National Ballet has toured regularly in Spain since 2005, in January 2007 it performed "The Best of Tchaikovsky" in Spain and northern Germany.