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.)
Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова as a “Bride of the Prince”, “Swan Lake Лебединое Oзеро”, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltser Василий Гельцер, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costume design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 21, new stage).
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Photographer Yulia Sumzina Юлия Сумзинаfor La Notte Magazine
Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова, “Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto and stage by Marius Petipa adapted by Mikhail Chemiakin Михаил Шемякин based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography by Kirill Simonov Кирилл Симонов, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, set, costume and production design by Mikhail Chemiakin Михаил Шемякин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова as “The Shapphire Fairy”, “The Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев (1952), set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова, “Raymonda”, choreography by Marius Petipa (1898) revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев, (1948) with choreographic fragments by Fyodor Lopukhov Фёдор Лопухов, music by Alexander Glazunov Александр Глазунов, set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Aleksandra Lampika Александра Лампика, Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова and Camilla Mazzi, “Don Quixote”, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, 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), music by Ludwig Minkus, costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Khoreva Мария Хорева as “Terpsichore”, Anastasia Nuykina Анастасия Нуйкина as “Polyhymnia”, Daria Ionova Дарья Ионова as “Calliope” and Xander Parish as “Apollo”, “Apollo” choreography by George Balanchine (1928), music and libretto by Igor Stravinsky (“Apollon Musagète), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (July 21)
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