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 Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина as “Juliet”, Igor Kolb Игорь Колб as “Tybalt”, Philipp Stepin Филипп Стёпин as Romeo” and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов as “Mercutio”, “Romeo and Juliet Ромео и Джульетта”, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Andrian Piotrovsky Адриана Пиотровского, Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Sergei Radlov Сергея Радлов and Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky Леонид Лавровский, set and costume design by Pyotr Williams Петр Вильямс, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (November 22, 2014, Mariinsky II).
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Claudine Schoch and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов, “Die Jahreszeiten”, choreography by Martin Schläpfer, music by Franz Joseph Haydn (“The Seasons”), scenery and costume design by Mylla Ek, Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.
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Elvina Ibraimova Эльвина Ибраимова and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов (today principal dancer at Vienna State Ballet Wiener Staatsballett), “Rubies”, choreography by George Balanchine, music by Igor Stravinsky Игорь Стравинский (Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra), costume by Barbara Karinska. From “Jewels” (“Rubies”, “Emeralds” & “Diamonds”), Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballet, Nationaltheater, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Antonia McAuley and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов, “Borderlands”, choreography and costume by Wayne McGregor, music by Joel Cadbury and Paul Stoney, set design by Wayne McGregor and Lucy Carter, Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballet, Nationaltheater, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Sofia Gumerova (Lazutkina) Софья Гумерова (Лазуткина) as “Death” and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов as “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Alexander Goedicke), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebé”) and Barbara Karinska, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Premiere: June 25, 1946, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Paris, France.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва, Vasily Tkachenko Василий Ткаченко, Alexei Popov Алексей Попов, Ivan Kostik Ивкин Костик y Andrey Soloviev Андрей Соловьёв, “Cinderella”, Mariinsky Ballet, The Music Center, Los Ángeles, California, US (October 8, 2015)
Valeria Martynyuk Валерия Мартынюк as “Gulnare” and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов as “Lankedem”, “Le Corsaire” choreography by Pyotr Gusev (original choreography by Marius Petipa), Mariinsky Ballet (July 2, 2015)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 