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.)
Yuan Yuan Tan 谭元元 as “The Mermaid” and Lloyd Riggins as “The Poet”, “The Little Mermaid”, based on the fairy tale of the same name (“Den Lille Havfrue“) by Hans Christian Andersen, music by Lera Auerbach, choreo, stage, set and costume by John Neumeier, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, Civic Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Maria Vinogradova Мария Виноградова as “Orlando” and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Shelmerdine”, “Orlando Орландо”, music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin, libretto byClaus Spahn based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Wolf, choreography by Christian Spuck, costume design by Emma Ryott, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (New Stage) Moscow, Russia.
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Eleonora Sevenard as “Orlando”, “Orlando Орландо”, music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin, libretto byClaus Spahn based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Wolf, choreography by Christian Spuck, costume design by Emma Ryott, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (New Stage) Moscow, Russia (June 20, 2021).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Tatiana” and Alexey Lyubimov Алексей Любимов [Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus)] as “Bear”,“Last Goodbye” and “The Dream Bear” scenes from Tatiana”, choreography, staging, set and costume by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин (1833), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
“Tatiana” is a commission by The Hamburg Ballet, The Hamburg State Opera (Hamburg, Germany) and The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Moscow, Russia).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Tatiana” and Alexey Lyubimov Алексей Любимов [Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus)] as “Bear”, “The Dream Bear” scene from Tatiana”, choreography, staging, set and costume by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин (1833), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
“Tatiana” is a commission by The Hamburg Ballet, The Hamburg State Opera (Hamburg, Germany) and The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Moscow, Russia).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Tatiana” and Alexey Lyubimov Алексей Любимов [Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus)] as “Prince N.”, “Tatiana” (Act II, scene 8, a ball in Saint Petersburg), choreography, staging, set and costume by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин (1833), Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow, Russia. (Main rehearsal, November 5, 2014).
“Tatiana” is a commission by The Hamburg Ballet, The Hamburg State Opera (Hamburg, Germany) and The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Moscow, Russia).
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“Dream Bear Scene” – Photographer Evgenia Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
“Dream Bear Scene” – Photographer Evgenia Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
“Last Goodbye Scene” – Photographer Evgenia Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
“Dream Bear Scene” – Photographer Evgenia Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
“Act I Scene” – Photographer Evgeniya Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
Photographer Evgeniya Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
Photographer Evgeniya Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
“Duel Scene” – Photographer Evgeniya Pirshina Евгения Пиршина
Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Tatiana” and Alexey Lyubimov Алексей Любимов [Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT)] as “Bear”, “Tatiana”, choreography, staging, set and costume by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин (1833), Staatsoper Hamburg Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg, Germany (July 2, 2015).
“Tatiana” is a commission by The Hamburg Ballet, The Hamburg State Opera (Hamburg, Germany) and The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Moscow, Russia).
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Eleonora Sevenard as “Orlando” and Jacopo Tissi as “Shelmerdine” and “Elizabeth I”, “Orlando”, music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Eleha Kats-Chernin, libretto byClaus Spahn based on the novel of the same name by Virginia Wolf, choreography by Christian Spuck, costume design by Emma Ryott, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр (New Stage) Moscow, Russia (September 25).
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Silvia Azzoni as “The Little Mermaid” and Carsten Jung as “The Prince”, “The Little Mermaid”, music by Lera Auerbach, choreography, stage, set and costume by John Neumeier. Based on the fairy tale of the same name (“Den lille havfrue“) by Hans Christian Andersen. Das Hamburg Ballett, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California, USA (February 8, 2013).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Tatiana”, “Last Goodbye” scene from “Tatiana”, choreography staging, set and costumes by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин (1833), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia (March 8, 2016).
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва (Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр) as “Tatiana” and Dmitry Sobolevsky Дмитрий Соболевскийas as “Eugene Onegin”, “Last Goodbye” scene from “Tatiana” choreography staging, set and costumes by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the novel “Eugene Onegin” by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин (1833), Ballet Gala Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia (July 29 & 30, 2019)
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Yuan Yuan Tan and Wei Wang – Photographer Erik Tomasson
Photographer Erik Tomasson
Yuan Yuan Tan 谭元元 and Aaron Robison – Photographer Erik Tomasson
Yuan Yuan Tan 谭元元, Wei Wang and Aaron Robison, “The Little Mermaid” choreography, scenic, costume and lighting design by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, California, USA
Premiere: The Royal Danish Ballet, The Opera House, Copenhagen, April 15, 2005
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Yuan Yuan Tan 谭元元 and Aaron Robison, “The Little Mermaid” choreography, scenic, costume and lighting design by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, based on the danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, California, USA
Premiere: The Royal Danish Ballet, The Opera House, Copenhagen, April 15, 2005
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Diana Vishneva Диана Вишнёва, “Tatiana” (Duel Scene) choreography by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia (November 5, 2014)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 