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.)
Yekaterina Borchenko Екатерина Борченко as “Lilac Fairy”, “The Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreography by Nacho Duato, libretto by Nacho Duato and Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perraul, stage and costume design by Angelina Atlagić Ангелина Атлагич, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Viktoria Tereshkina Виктория Терёшкина as “Nikiya” and Nadezhda Batoeva Надежда Батоева as “Gamzatti”, “La Bayadère Баядерка”, choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costumes by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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