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.)
Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Olga Marchenkova Ольга Марченкова as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress), “The Flames of ParisПламя Парижа”, libretto by Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский and Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreo by Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 13, 2022).
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Olga Marchenkova Ольга Марченкова as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress) and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Antoine Mistral” (an actor), “The Flames of ParisПламя Парижа”, libretto by Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский and Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreo by Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreo by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 13, 2022).
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Elizaveta Kokoreva Елизавета Кокорева as “Jeanne”, “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков, Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев and Aleksandr Belinsky Александр Белинский music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Evgenia Obraztsova Евгения Образцова (back then at the Mariinsky Ballet) as “Cinderella” and Igor Kolb Игорь Колб as “Prince William”, “Cinderella Золушка” music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков based on the fairytale of the same name by Charles Perraul, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (2002), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Anna Tikhomirova Анна Тихомирова as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress), “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Alexander Belinsky Александр Белинский and Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, The Royal Opera House, London, England (August, 2013).
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Eleonora Sevenard as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress) and Dmitry Smilevsky Дмитрий Смилевски as “Antoine Mistral” (an actor), “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Alexander Belinsky Александр Белинский and Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (April 16).
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Anna Tikhomirova Анна Тихомирова as “Mireille de Poitiers” (an actress) and Artem Ovcharenko Артем Овчаренко as “Antoine Mistral” (an actor), “The Flames of Paris Пламя Парижа”, libretto by Alexander Belinsky Александр Белинский and Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, on basis of the original libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков and Vladimir Dmitriev Владимир Дмитриев, music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский (original choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен), costume design by Elena Markovskaya Елена Марковская, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia. (September 25, 2014).
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