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.)
Yekaterina Pervushina Екатерина Первушина as “Princess Aurora” and Maksim Apatonov Максим Апатонов as “Prince Désiré”, “Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreo by Marius Petipa, Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, Natalia Kasatkina Наталия Касаткина and Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (January 18, 2024).
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Maia Makhateli მაია მახათელი as “Raymonda” (niece of the Countess Sybil de Daurice) and Young Gyu Choi as “Abd al Rahman”, “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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