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.)
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук as “Myrtha” (Queen of the Wilis), “Giselle Жизель”, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean Henry Saint Georges, choreo by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, 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 (March 26, 2024).
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Photographer was not mentioned by the source of this photograph.
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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Photographer Yekaterina Lola Екатерина Лола (Kate Lola)
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук, “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltser Василий Гельцер, choreo by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, 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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Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук as “Fairy of Tenderness” (“Candide” or “Crystal Fountain Fairy”), “Sleeping Beauty Спящая Kрасавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreo by Marius Petipa, Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, Natalia Kasatkina Наталия Касаткина and Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, The Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (January 18, 2024).
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Photographer Yekaterina Lola Екатерина Лола (Kate Lola)
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, choreography 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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(Photographer was not mentioned by the source of this photograph)
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук as “Flower Fairy”, “The Scarlet Flower Аленький цветочек”, music by Vladimir Kuptsov Владимир Купцов, libretto by Vladimir Kuptsov Владимир Купцов and Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the fairy tale of the same name by Sergey Aksakov Сергей Аксаков, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, 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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Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук as a “Magical Maidens”, “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (May 9).
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Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук, Pas de Trois Variation from “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltser Василий Гельцер, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, 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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Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Aleksandra Krisa Александра Криса and Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук, “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltser Василий Гельцер, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, 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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Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук and Oleg Kroshkin Олег Крошкин, “Figaro Фигаро”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the comedy duology “La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro” (1784) by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, music by Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart and Gioachino Rossini, choreography, direction and musical adaption by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, scene design by Grigory Belov Григорий Белов, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, The Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук and Dmitry Prusakov Дмитрий Прусаков, “Le Corsaire”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier, based on “The Corsair” (1814) by Lord George Byron, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, The Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (March 11, 2020).
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Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук and Dmitry Prusakov Дмитрий Прусаков, “Le Corsaire”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier, based on “The Corsair” (1814) by Lord George Byron, choreography by Yuri Grigorovich Юрий Григорович, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, The Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (March 11, 2020).
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 