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.)
Héloïse Bourdon as “Odette”, “Le Lac Des Cygnes Swan Lake”, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, set design by Ezio Frigerio, costume design by Franca Squarciapino, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vassili Geltser Василий Гельцер, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Paris, France.
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Tiler Peck and Román Mejía, “Allegro Brillante”, choreography by Georege Balanchine, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский (Piano Concerto Nº 3 in E-flat Major Op. 75), costume by Barbara Karinska (Varvara Jmoudsky). As part of the program for January 20, 21 (eve), 22, 24, 27 and February 4 (mat) “Classic NYCB I” (“Walpurgisnacht Ballet” by George Balanchine, “Liturgy” by Christopher Wheeldon, “Firebird” by George Balanchine/Jerome Robbins and “Allegro Brillante“,) New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, USA.
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Yekaterina Pervushina Екатерина Первушина as “Nikiya”, “La BayadèreБаядеркa”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov Сергея Худеков, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, Natalia Makarova Наталья Макарова and Andris Liepa Андрис Лиепа (with choreography fragments by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский), set and costume by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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