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.)
Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, “Ein Sommernachtstraum A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music Philip Glass (Violin Concerto Nº 1 2º Movement). Based on a comedy of the same name by William Shakespeare (1595/96). As part of the program “From Berlin with Love I” Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet Season Opening Gala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 26, 2020).
Sarah-Jane Brodbeck and Vahe Martirosyan, “Ein Sommernachtstraum A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music Philip Glass (Violin Concerto Nº 1, 2nd Movement) from program “From Berlin with Love I”, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet Season Opening Gala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 26, 2020).
Anthony Huxley as “Oberon”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Felix Mendelssohn, costumes by Barbara Karinska, based on a comedy by William Shakespeare (1595/96), New York City Ballet, New York City, USA.
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Cecilia Iliesiu as “Hippolyta” (amazonian queen), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Felix Mendelssohn, scenic and costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington, USA (April 12-21, 2019)
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Lindsi Dec and Jerome Tisserand, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” choreography by George Balanchine (based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare), music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, scenic and costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington, USA (April 12 to 21, 2019)
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Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондаурова as “Titania”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” choreography by George Balanchine (1962), music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Mariinsky Ballet, Saint Petersburg, Russia (February 22, 2017)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 