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 Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Raymonda”, “Raymonda Раймонда”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, script by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Raymonda”, “Raymonda Раймонда”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, script by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Raymonda” and Artur Almukhametov Артур Альмухаметов as “Knight Jean de Brienne” (Raymonda’s fiance), “Raymonda Раймонда”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской, script by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, design by Vyacheslav Okunev Вячеслав Окунев, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreography by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreography by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri” and Vsevolod Tabachuk Всеволод Табачук as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreography by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri” and Vsevolod Tabachuk Всеволод Табачук as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreography by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri” and Vsevolod Tabachuk Всеволод Табачук as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreo by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri” and Vsevolod Tabachuk Всеволод Табачук as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreo by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва as “Kitri” and Vsevolod Tabachuk Всеволод Табачук as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, 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), choreography by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, production design by Maria Volskaya Мария Вольская, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Anastasia Gracheva Анастасия Грачёва, “Giselle Жизель”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, Friedrich Burgmüller, Riccardo Drigo and Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Konstantin Uralsky Константин Уральский after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theater Астраханский Государственный Театр Оперы и Балета, Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 