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.)
Elle Macy as “Odette” and James Kirby Rogers as “Price Siegfried”, “Swan Lake”, choreo by Kent Stowell, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, staging by Francia Russell, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, costume design by Paul Tazewell, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Prisca Zeisel as “Giselle”, “Giselle, ou Les Wilis Жизель, или Вилисы”, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint Georges, choreo by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, stage and costume design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maia Makhateli მაია მახათელი as “Firebird” and Remi Wörtmeyer as “Ivan”, “Firebird”, choreo by Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский (“Le Oiseau de Feu”), scenery by Simon Pastukh, costume by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Photographer Yekaterina Lola Екатерина Лола (Kate Lola) – Photo courtesy of the State Kremlin Palace Press Service.
Anna Animutskaya Анна Анимуцкая and Pyotr Gorbunov Петр Горбунов, “Chinese Dance” from “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa adapted by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreo and direction by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, scene design by Anatoly Nezhny Анатолий Нежный, 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.
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