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.)
Anastasia Limenko Анастасия Лименько as “Katerina”, “The Stone Flower Каменный цветок”, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Mira Mendelssohn Prokofieva Мира Мендельсон Прокофьева, revised by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович after motifs of the Ural tales “The Malachite Box” also known as “The Malachite Casket” by Pavel Bazhov Павел Бажов, choreography by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Yekaterina Pervushina Екатерина Первушина (Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет) as “Kitri” (Quiteria) and Ivan Vasiliev Иван Васильев (Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр) as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, libretto by Marius Petipa adapted by Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв 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), choreography by Alexander Gorsky and music by Ludwig Minkus. As part of the project“Great Love Большая Любовь”, Live Arena Live Арена, Moscow, Russia (March 11, 2023).
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Alina Somova Алина Сомова as “Odette”, “Swan Lake Лебединое Озеро”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltzer Василий Гельцер, choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев, set design by Igor Ivanov Игорь Иванов, costume design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева.Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, 2013 Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany.
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