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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Agnese Di Clemente and Claudio Coviello, “Lo Schiaccianoci Nutcracker” (Dec 17 to Jan 11), music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreo and stage by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Ernst Hoffmann, costume and set by Nicholas Geogiadis. Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev on the 30º Anniversary of his Death, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy (December 21, 2022).
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Agnese Di Clemente (soloist) and Claudio Coviello (principal), “Lo Schiaccianoci The Nutcracker” (Dec. 17 to Jan. 11), music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreo and stage by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Ernst Hoffmann, costume and set by Nicholas Geogiadis. Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev on the 30* anniversary of his death, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy.
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Agnese di Clemente (Soloist from Teatro alla Scala) and Claudio Coviello (Principal Dancer from Teatro alla Scala), “Caravaggio”, choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti, music by Bruno Moretti and Claudio Monteverdi, costume by Kristopher Millar, 2022 Cigognola Summer Festival Stars Le Stelle del Cigognola Summer Festival 2022, Teatro Fraschini, Pavia, Italy.
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Virna Toppi and Claudio Coviello, “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”), Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy.
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Virna Toppi and Claudio Coviello, “La Bayadère”, music by Ludwig Minkus, libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Kudekov Сергей Кудеков, choreography and staging by Rudolf Nureyev Рудольф Нуреев after Marius Petipa revived and supervised by Manuel Legris, set and costume by Luisa Spinatelli, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy.
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Nicoletta Manni and Claudio Coviello (Teatro alla Scala), “Grand Pas Classique”, choreography by Victor Gsovsky, music by Daniel Auber, 2019 Weltstar Gala, Volkstheater, Vienna, Austria (December 1, 2019).
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Martina Arduino and Claudio Coviello, “Goldberg Variationen” (“Les Variations Goldberg”), choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music by Johann Sebastian Bach, sets and costumes by Keso Dekker, Teatro alla Scala
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Svetlana Zakharova Светлана Захарова (with Roberto Bolle), “Progetto Händel” choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti, music by Georg Friedrich Händel, costume by Helena de Medeiros, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy (May 19, 2017)
Cast: Antonella Albano, Marco Agostino, Federico Fresi, Gaia Andreanò, Timofej Andrijashenko, Stefania Ballone, Agnese Di Clemente, Christian Fagetti, Chiara Fiandra, Denise Gazzo, Maria Celeste Losa, Fabio Saglibene, Giulia Schembri, Gioacchino Starace, Antonella Albano, Massimo Garon, Vittoria Valerio, Marco Agostino, Antonella Albano, Massimo Garon, Vittoria Valerio, Claudio Coviello, Philippine De Sevin, Christian Fagetti, Alessandra Vassallo, Gabriele Corrado, Chiara Fiandra, Walter Madau, Martina Arduino and Nicola Del Freo
Piano: James Vaughan, Violin: Francesco De Angelis, Oboe: Fabien Thouand, Flute: Andrea Manco and Cello: Massimo Polidori
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