Be wise, taste wines and adjusts your boundless hope to the cup of life, which is small. Even as we speak cruel time flees jealous. Harvest the present day, the morrow is uncertain. Seize the day. Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 b.C.)
Maria Ogneva Мария Огнева, “Eastern Dance”, “Don Quixote – Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Anastasia Limenko Анастасия Лименько as Princess Stéphanie of Belgium and Sergei Polunin Сергеeй Полуyнин as “Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria” (Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph), “Mayerling”, choreography by Sir Kenneth McMillan, music by Franz Liszt, libretto by Gillian Freeman (based on the Mayerling Incident), costume design by Nicholas Georgiadis, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia (2015).
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