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.)
Maria Chugai Мария Чугай, “Dream Scene” from “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean in collaboration with Ted Brandsen and Grigori Tchitcherine Григорий Чичерин, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Elisabeth Tonev as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Nina Tonoli as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Maria Chugai Марія Чугай as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Yuan Yuan Zhang 张媛媛 as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Maria Chugai Марія Чугай as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Maria Chugai Марія Чугай as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Aleksandr Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreo by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreo by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Nina Tonoli as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreography by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreography by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (April 3 to 23).
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Yuan Yuan Zhang 张媛媛 as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend) and Sho Yamada 山田翔 as “Béranger” (a troubadour), “Raymonda”, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreography by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreography by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (April 3).
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Yuan Yuan Zhang 张媛媛 as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreography by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreography by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (April 3 to 23).
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Nina Tonoli as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s friend), “Raymonda”, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreography by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreography by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (April 3 to 23).
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Riho Sakamoto as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s Friend), “Raymonda”, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, libretto by Countess Lydia Pashkova Графиня Лидия Пашкова based on legends of medieval knights, choreography by Marius Petipa, production, concept and additional choreography by Rachel Beaujean, costume and set design by Jérôme Kaplan, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (April 3 to 23).
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Nadezhda Batoeva Надежда Батоева as “Henrietta” and Anastasiya Lukina Анастасия Лукина as “Clémence” (Raymonda’s Friends) , “Raymonda”, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, choreography by Marius Petipa (1898) revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев (1948) with choreographic fragments by Fyodor Lopukhov Фёдор Лопухов, libretto by Lidia Pashkova Лидия Пашкова and Marius Petipa based on a medieval legend, set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (historic stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (June 21, 2021).
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 