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.)
“Pas de Quatre” from “Choreographic Miniatures”, choreo by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Vincenzo Bellini, costume by Tatiana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Yacobson Ballet Театр балет имени Леонид Якобсон, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Anastasia Matvienko Анастасия Матвиенко (Mariinsky Ballet 2009-2022) as “Carmen”, Sergey Popov Сергей Попов (Finnish National Ballet Suomen Kansallisbaletti) as “Don José” and Igor Kolb Игорь Колб (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Torero”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreography and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, production design by Boris Messerer Борис Мессерер. “An Evening Dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya”, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia (December 6 & 7, 2019).
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“Pas de Quatre” from “Choreographic Miniatures”, choreography by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Vincenzo Bellini, costume by Tatiana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Yacobson Ballet Театр балет имени Леонид Якобсон, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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“Pas de Quatre” from “Choreographic Miniatures”, choreography by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Vincenzo Bellini, costumes by Tatiana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Yacobson Ballet Театр балет имени Леонид Якобсон, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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“Pas de Quatre” from “Choreographic Miniatures”, choreography by Leonid Yakobson Леонид Якобсон, music by Vincenzo Bellini, costumes by Tatiana Noginova Татьяна Ногинова, Yacobson Ballet Театр балет имени Леонид Якобсон, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Valeria Zapasnikova Валерия Запасникова and Ivan Zaytsev Иван Зайцев, “Bolero Морфий”, music by Maurice Ravel, choreography and stage design by Ivan Vasiliev Иван Васильев, costumes by Alexandra Leonidova Александра Леонидова, light by Alexander Kibitkin Александр Кибиткин. Répétiteur Elvira Khabibullina Эльвира Хабибуллина from “Morphine Морфий. Blind Affair Слепая связь and Bolero Болеро”, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 15, 2016).
Premier: Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 15, 2016).
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Elena Yevseyeva Елена Евсеева as “Odette” and “Odile” (dancer from Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “Swan Lake”, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costumes design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Elena Yevseyeva Елена Евсеева as “Odette” and Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко as “Prince Siegfried” (Principal dancers from Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр), “Swan Lake”, choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, costumes design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Tatiana Miltseva Татьяна Мильцева, “Swan Lake” (backstage), choreography by Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов, Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский and Asaf Messerer Асаф Мессерер, revised by Mikhail Messerer, stage and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр, Hermitage Theatre Эрмитажном театре, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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