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 Iliushkina Мария Ильюшкина as “Odette” and Even Capitaine as “Prince Siegfried”, “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltser Василий Гельцер, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costume design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 21, new stage).
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Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова as a “Bride of the Prince”, “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltser Василий Гельцер, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costume design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 21, new stage).
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Amandine Albisson, “Boléro”, choreography by Maurice Béjart, music by Maurice Ravel, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille, Paris, France.
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Maria Khoreva Мария Хорева (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “The Light” and Roberto Bolle (Teatro alla Scala) as “Caravaggio”, “Caravaggio”, choreo by Mauro Bigonzetti, music by Bruno Moretti/Claudio Monteverdi, costume by Kristopher Millar and Lois Swandale, Ballet del Teatro Colón, Teatro Colón, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina (May 28).
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Alena Kovaleva Алена Ковалева as “Aegina”, “Spartacus Спартак”, choreography by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, based on the novel of the same name by Raffaello Giovagnolli, music by Aram Khachaturian Арам Хачатурян, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (May 23).
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Anastasiya Lukina Анастасия Лукина as “Princess Aurora” and Aleksandr Sergeev Александр Сергеев as “Prince Désiré”, “Sleeping Beauty Спящая Kрасавица”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев (1952), set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 23, New Stage).
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Sarah Lamb and Ryoichi Hirano, “Concerto”, choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, music by Dmitri Shostakovich Дмитрий Шостакович (Piano Concerto Nº 2), costume design by Jürgen Rose, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, England (November 2012).
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Olesya Novikova Олеся Новикова as “Giselle” and Vladimir Shklyarov Владимир Шкляров as “Count Albrecht”, “Giselle Жизель”, choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges, Théophile Gautier and Jean Coralli, set design by Igor Ivanov Игорь Иванов, costume design by Irina Press, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 12).
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Photographer Yekaterina Vladimirova Екатерина Владимирова
Evgenia Obraztsova Евгения Образцова as “Giselle”, “Giselle Жизель”, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean Henry Saint Georges, choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, choreographic version by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (March 19, 2012).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen” and Igor Zelensky Игорь Зеленский as “José”, “Carmen“, music by Georges Bizet, libretto by Roland Petit based on the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, choreography by Roland Petit, set design and costume by Antoni Clavé, lighting design by Roland Petit, with dancers of Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Novat) Новосибирский Государственный Академический Театр Оперы и Балета (Hobat), 2014 Igor Zelensky Gala, Mariinsky Theatre Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (July 15).
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Lucía Lacarra as “Marguerite Gautier” and Marlon Dino as “Armand Duval” (back then principal dancers at the Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballett), “The Lady of the Camellias”, choreography and stage by John Neumeier, music by Frédéric Chopin, set and costume by Jürgen Rose, based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas fils, 2013 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Oktyabrsky Concert Hall Большой концертный зал Октя́брьский, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 22).
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Anna Rose O’Sullivan as “Princess Aurora”, “Sleeping Beauty”, choreography by Marius Petipa, Sir Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, England (January 16 to June 6).
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Eleonora Sevenard as “Nikiya”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergey Khudekov Сергея Худеков, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, new scenic version by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, scenes from productions by Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани, Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев, supervisor of scenery and costume creation by Valery Levental Валерий Левенталь, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (May 18).
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Anzhelina Vorontsova Анжелина Воронцова as “Nikiya”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa”, choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), revised choreo by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeyev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mikhailovsky Theatre Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Anastasia Matvienko Анастасия Матвиенко, “Rubies”, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский, (Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra), costume by Barbara Karinska (Varvara Jmoudsky) from “Jewels” (“Rubies”, “Emeralds” and “Diamonds”), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 