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.)
Anastasia Matvienko Анастасия Матвиенко as “Giselle” and Kenta Yamamoto 山本健太 as “Count Albrecht”, “Giselle”, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier, Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Jean Coralli, choreo by José Martínez, costume and set design by Iñaki Cobos Guerrero, Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and BalletSlovensko Narodno Gledališče Opera in Balet Ljubljana, Ljubljana Opera House Ljubljanska Operna Hiša, Republic of Slovenia (October, 2023).
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May Nagahisa 永久メイ as “Princess Aurora” and Philipp Stepin Филипп Стёпин as “Prince Désiré”, “Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreo by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев (1952), set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 8, 2024).
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Maria Shirinkina Мария Ширинкина as “Princess Shyrin” and Nikita Korneyev Никита Корнеев as “Ferkhad”, “The Legend of Love Легенда о любви”, choreo by Yury Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, music by Arif Melikov Ариф Меликов, libretto by Nazim Khikmet Назим Хикмет, set, costume and lighting design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 22, 2024).
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Roseanna Leney as “Odette” and Evan Loudon as “Siegfried”, “Swan Lake”, choreo and concept by David Dawson, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costume design by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, Scottish Ballet, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scotland.
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“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 (2012).
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Aubane Philbert as “Cupid”, “Don Quixote Don Quichotte”, choreo by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев, Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Elena Rivkina, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Paris, France.
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Camille Bon as “Queen of the Dryads”, “Don Quixote Don Quichotte”, choreo by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев, Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Elena Rivkina, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille, Paris, France.
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Lada Ivanova Лада Иванова, “Chopiniana Шопениана”, choreo and scenario by Mikhail Fokine (1908) revised version by Agrippina Vaganova Агриппины Вагановой (1931), music by Frédéric Chopin, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Olesya Novikova Олеся Новикова as “Princess Aurora”, “Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreo by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев (1952), set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 6, 2024).
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Hohyun Kang, “Don Quixote Don Quichotte”, choreo by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев, Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Elena Rivkina, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille, Paris, France.
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Héloïse Bourdon as “Kitri” and Thomas Docquir as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Don Quichotte”, choreo by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев, Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minkus, costumes by Elena Rivkina, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille, Paris, France.
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Yvonne Slingerland and Bela Erlandson “Tenzij”, choreo by Milena Sidorova, music by Caroline Shaw, costume by François Noël Cherpin. As part of “Dancing Dutch” (“Wings of Wax” by Jiří Kylián; “Anima Animus”by David Dawson/Ezio Bosso; “Concertante” by Hans van Manen/Frank Martin and “Tenzij”), Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Nadezhda Ivanova Надежда Иванова as “Princess Aurora”, “Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreo by Marius Petipa, Moscow Ballet of Classical Choreography “La Classique” Московский Государственный Театр Балета Классической Хореографии “La Classique”, Moscow, Russia (February, 2020).
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Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук and Aleksey Kazantsev Алексей Казанцев , “Persian Dance”, “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 Пётр Чайковский, 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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Natalia Povoroznyuk Наталья Поворознюк, graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy Aкадемии Русского балета А.Я. Вагановой, former principal at Eifman Ballet Театр балета Борис Эйфман. Currently teacher and choreographer.
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Emma Von Enck and Víctor Abreu, “Bourrée Fantasque”, choreo by George Balanchine, music by Emmanuel Chabrier [“Marche Joyeuse”, “Bourrée Fantasque”, “Prélude” (from the opera Gwendoline) and “Féte Polonaise” (from the comic opera Le Roi Malgré Lui)], costume by Barbara Karinska (Varvara Jmoudsky), New York City Ballet, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, USA.
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“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 (2012).
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