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.)
Stanislava Postnova Станислава Постнова and Aleksandr Vodopetov Александр Водопетов as “Indian Dolls”, “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский [“The Nutcracker” (1892)], libretto by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович based on the fairy-tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, ideas from the scenario by Marius Petipa, choreo by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (December 23, 2023).
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“Giselle”, choreo by Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, production and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean and Ricardo Bustamante, music by Adolphe Adam, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen”, “Carmen“, music by Georges Bizet, libretto by Roland Petit based on the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, choreo 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, 2014).
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Vladimir Shklyarov Владимир Шкляров as “Solor”, “La Bayadère Баядеркa” (Shadows Varation), choreo by Marius Petipa (1877), Natalia Makarova Наталья Макарова and Andris Liepa Андрис Лиепа (with choreography fragments by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941) and Nikolay Zubkovsky Николай Зубковский, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев. As part of the program “Vladimir Shklyarov, 20 Years on Stage” (“Schéhérazade” and “La Bayadère”), Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (November 20, 2023).
Note I: Oksana Skorik and Vladimir Shklyarov were accompanied by dancers from the Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Moscow, Russia.
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