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.)
Iana Salenko Яна Саленко as “Odette” and Xander Parish as “Prince Siegfried”, “White Swan” pas de deux from “Swan Lake”, choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, 2023 Les Hivernales de la Danse Gala, Manège de la Caserne Fonck, Liège, Belgium (March 17 & 19).
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова and Alexis Oliveira, “La Belle”, choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, costume by Philippe Guillotel and Jérôme Kaplan, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco.
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Zlata Dorofeeva Злата Дорофеева as “Gorislava Горислава” (Ratmir’s captive woman), “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (May 9).
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