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.)
Anna Nikulina Анна Никулина as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты” choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (new stage), Moscow, Russia (May 25, 2024).
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Anna Nikulina Анна Никулина as “Carmen” and Mark Orlov Марк Орлов as “Corregidor”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты” choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (new stage), Moscow, Russia (May 25, 2024).
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Anna Nikulina Анна Никулина as “Carmen” and Vladislav Lantratov Владислав Лантратов as “Don José”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты” choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (new stage), Moscow, Russia (May 25, 2024).
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Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондаурова as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондаурова as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Viktoria Tereshkina Виктория Терёшкина as “Carmen” andRoman Belyakov Роман Беляков as “Don José”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондаурова as “Carmen” and Roman Belyakov Роман Беляков“ as “Don José”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen” and Ilya Kuznetsov Илья Кузнецов as “Don José”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée, music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (January 13, 2013).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée, music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (January 13, 2013).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen” and Konstantin Zverev Константин Зверев as “Torero”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée, music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (January 13, 2013).
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Maria Chernyavskaya Мария Чернявская as “Carmen” and Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко as “Torero”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 30).
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Maria Chernyavskaya Мария Чернявская as “Carmen” and Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко as “Torero”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 30).
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Maria Chernyavskaya Мария Чернявская as “Fate”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Chernyavskaya Мария Чернявская as “Fate”, “CarmenSuite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Oksana Marchuk Dobrovolskaya Оксана Марчук Добровольская as one of the tobacconists (tobacco-workers), “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (July 5, 2019).
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Kristina Kretova Кристина Кретова as “Carmen” and David Motta Soares as “Torero”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Alina Somova Алина Сомова as “Carmen” and Alexander Sergeev Александр Сергеев as “Torero”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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