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.)
Melissa Hamilton and Gareth Haw, “Chanson”, choreography by Derek Deane, music by Marie-Joseph Canteloube (Chants d’Auvergne. Series 1, Nº 2 – Baïlero), The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London, England.
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Photographer Yekaterina Vladimirova Екатерина Владимирова
Anna Nikulina Анна Никулина as “Anastasia Romanovna” (Ivan IV Vasilyevich’s Wife), “Ivan the Terrible Иван Грозный”, choreography and libretto by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев (excerpts from music to the film “Ivan the Terrible”, “Russian Overture”, “Cantata Aleksander Nevsky”, “The Third Symphony”, Mikhail Chulaki’s version and additional music excerpts), set and costume by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Amandine Albisson as “Carmen”, “Carmen”, music by Georges Bizet, choreography by Roland Petit (1949), libretto by Roland Petit after Prosper Mérimée, stage and costume by Antoni Clavé, Le Ballet de l’Opera Nacional de Paris, Paris, France.
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