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.)
Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондауроваas “Death”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreo by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Aleksandr Goedicke Александр Гедике), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebè”) and Barbara Karinska (Varvara Jmoudsky), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Alessandra Ferri as “Death” and Herman Cornejo as “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebé”) and Barbara Karinska (Varvara Jmoudsky), Opera di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
Elisa Carrillo Cabrera (Act I: as “Frida Kahlo” vision in Liza’s dreams; Act II: artist “Liza”) and Beatrice Knop as “Death” (friend of Frida), “Infinita Frida”, music by Alexander Maev Александр Маев, concept and choreography by Yury Smekalov Юрий Смекалов, costume and scenery by Elisey Shepelev Елисей Шепелев, Alexandrinsky Theatre Александринский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (July 5, 2015).
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Yekaterina Kondaurova Екатерина Кондауроваas “Death” and Vladimir Shklyarov Владимир Шкляровas “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Alexander Goedicke), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebè”) and Barbara Karinska (Varvara Jmoudsky), Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia. (March 8, 2013).
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Miriam Káčerová as “Death” and Matteo Miccini as “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebé”) and Barbara Karinska. As part of the program “Angels and Demonds”, Stuttgarter Ballett, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва as “Death” and Kimin Kim as “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Alexander Goedicke), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebè”) and Barbara Karinska. As part of the program “Carmen Suite by Alberto Alonso, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and Symphony in C by George Balanchine“. Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (June 26, 2021).
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Sofia Gumerova (Lazutkina) Софья Гумерова (Лазуткина) as “Death” and Alexei Popov Алексей Попов as “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort”, choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Alexander Goedicke), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebé”) and Barbara Karinska, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Premiere: June 25, 1946, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Paris, France.
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Tatiana Miltseva Татьяна Мильцева as “Death”, Sabina Yapparova Сабина Яппарова as “Woman” and Marat Shemiunov Марат Шемиунов as “Composer”, “Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness” choreography, staging and costumes by Nacho Duato, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (“Goldberg Variations”, the Brandenburg Concertos, sonatas and organ concerts and “The Art of Fugue”), Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Yulia Makhalina Юлии Махалиной as “Death” and Igor Zelensky Игорь Зеленский as “The Young Man”, “Le Jeune Homme et La Mort” choreography by Roland Petit (1946), libretto by Jean Cocteau, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in С Minor, BWV 582, arranged for full orchestra by Alexander Goedicke), costume by Christian Bérard (also know as “Bebé”) and Barbara Karinska, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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