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.)
Marta Gerani and Claudio Coviello, “Bella Figura”, choreo by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy.
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Kathleen Breen Combes and Altan Dugaraa, “Bella Figura”, choreo by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Boston Ballet, Boston, Massachusetts, US.
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Rie Ichikawa, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Boston Ballet, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Charlotte Ranson and Daniel Stokes, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris (December 17, 2016).
World Premiere on October 12, 1995 in Netherlands Dance Theatre, The Hague, The Netherlands.
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Silvia Saint-Martin and Alessio Carbone, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris (December 23, 2016).
World Premiere on October 12, 1995 in Netherlands Dance Theatre, The Hague, The Netherlands
Sara Wroth, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Boston Ballet, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Sujung Lim 임수정 and Tigran Mkrtchyan, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Ballett Zürich, Zürich Opera House, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Katja Wünsche and Yannick Bittencourt, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Ballett Zürich, Zürich Opera House, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Elena Vostrotina Елена Востротина and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Dresden Semperoper Ballett, Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
Sujung Lim 임수정, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Ballett Zürich, Zürich Opera House, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Alice Firenze and Davide Dato, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.
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Valentine Colasante, “Bella Figura”, choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Le Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris
“Bella Figura” choreography by Jiří Kylián, music by Lukas Foss (“Lento” and “Andante” from Salomon Rossi Suite), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (“Stabat Mater Dolorosa” and “Quando Corpus Morietur” from Stabat Mater), Alessandro Marcello (“Adagio” from Oboe Concerto in D minor), Antonio Vivaldi (“Andante” from Concerto for two mandolins in G major) and Giuseppe Torelli (“Grave” from Concerti Grossi Op 8 No. 6 in G minor “Christmas Concerto”), costume design by Joke Visser, Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon (2009)
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