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.)
Weronika Frodyma as “Emma Bovary” and Alexej Orlenco as “Charles Bovary” (Emma’s husband), “Bovary”, libretto by Claus Spahn based on the novel “Madame Bovary“ by Gustave Flaubert, choreo and staging by Christian Spuck, music by Camille Saint Saëns, Thierry Pécou, György Ligeti and others, costume by Emma Ryott, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Yolanda Correa as “Kitri”, “Don Quixote” (general rehearsal), choreo and staging by Víctor Ullate, music by Ludwig Minkus, stage and costume design by Roberta Guidi di Bagno, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (December 2021).
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Emma Bovary” and Cohen Aitchison Dugas as “Léon Dupuis” (Emma’s lover), “Bovary”, libretto by Claus Spahn based on the novel “Madame Bovary“ by Gustave Flaubert, choreo and staging by Christian Spuck, music by Camille Saint Saëns, Thierry Pécou, György Ligeti and others, costume by Emma Ryott, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Weronika Frodyma as “Emma Bovary” and David Motta Soares as “Rodolphe Boulanger” (Emma’s lover), “Bovary”, libretto by Claus Spahn based on the novel “Madame Bovary“ by Gustave Flaubert, choreo and staging by Christian Spuck, music by Camille Saint Saëns, Thierry Pécou, György Ligeti and others, costume by Emma Ryott, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Yolanda Correa as “Kitri”, “Don Quixote” (general rehearsal), choreo and staging by Víctor Ullate, music by Ludwig Minkus, stage and costume design by Roberta Guidi di Bagno, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (December 2021).
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Weronika Frodyma as “Emma Bovary” and Alexandre Cagnat as “Léon Dupuis” (Emma’s lover), “Bovary”, libretto by Claus Spahn based on the novel “Madame Bovary“ by Gustave Flaubert, choreo and staging by Christian Spuck, music by Camille Saint Saëns, Thierry Pécou, György Ligeti and others, costume by Emma Ryott, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Elisa Carrillo Cabrera as “Tatyana Larina” and Alexej Orlenco as “Prince Gremin”, “Onegin”, choreography by John Cranko, based on the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin Евгений Онегин” by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, stage and costume by Elisabeth Dalton, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, “Ein Sommernachtstraum A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music Philip Glass (Violin Concerto Nº 1 2º Movement). Based on a comedy of the same name by William Shakespeare (1595/96). As part of the program “From Berlin with Love I” Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet Season Opening Gala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 26, 2020).
Sarah-Jane Brodbeck and Vahe Martirosyan, “Ein Sommernachtstraum A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, choreography by Heinz Spoerli, music Philip Glass (Violin Concerto Nº 1, 2nd Movement) from program “From Berlin with Love I”, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet Season Opening Gala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany (August 26, 2020).
Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Odette”, “Swan Lake Schwanensee”, choreo and staging by Patrice Bart, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Marius Petipa, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costume by Luisa Spinatelli, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова and Ksenia Ovsyanick Ксении Овсяницк, “LIB” (referring to “LIBeration”), choreography by Alexander Ekman (Karl Wilhelm Alexander Ekman), music by DEVO, John Lennon, Maverick Saber and Talking Heads (“Take me to the river”), costume by Charlie Le Mindu. As part of the program (for March 8, 2023) “EKMAN | EYAL”, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Iana Salenko Яна Саленко as “Princess Aurora”, “The Rose Adagio” from “The Sleeping Beauty Dornröschen“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreography by Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa, libretto based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perraul, stage and costume design by Jordi Roig, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Marcia Haydé as “Carabosse”, “The Sleeping Beauty Dornröschen“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreography by Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa, libretto based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perraul, stage and costume design by Jordi Roig, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Weronika Frodyma and Konstantin Lorenz, “Voices”, choreography by David Dawson, music by Max Richter (“Voices”), costume design by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子. As part of the program (for November 18) “Dawson” (“Voices” and “Citizen Nowhere”) Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Aya Okumura 奥村彩 as “Ruby”, “Sleeping Beauty Dornröschen”, choreography by Marcia Haydée, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, stage and costume design by Jordi Roig, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Princess Aurora”, “Sleeping Beauty Dornröschen”, choreography by Marcia Haydée, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, stage and costume design by Jordi Roig, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Polina Semionova Полина Семионова as “Tatyana Larina” and Alejandro Virelles as “Eugene Onegin”, “Onegin” (October 5, 7 & 8), choreography by John Cranko, based on the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin Евгений Онегин” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, stage and costume by Elisabeth Dalton, Staatsballett Berlin Berlin State Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Ballet: The Best Photographs 