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.)
Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Kitri” and Andrey Ermakov Андрей Ермаков as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 5, 2024; Mariinsky II).
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Kitri” and Andrey Ermakov Андрей Ермаков as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 5, 2024; Mariinsky II).
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Kitri” and Andrey Ermakov Андрей Ермаков as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 5, 2024; Mariinsky II).
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Kitri”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), costume design by Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (May 5, 2024; Mariinsky II).
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Zarema”, “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai”, choreography by Rostislav Zakharov Ростислав Захаров (1934), music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, libretto by Nikolai Volkov Николай Волков, based on the poem (1823) of the same name by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин, set and costume design by Valentina Khodasevich Валентина Ходасевич, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “The Queen of the Snowflakes”, “The Nutcracker”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy-tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, design bySimon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Medora” and Roman Belyakov Роман Беляков as “Conrad”, “Le Corsaire”, choreography by Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier, edited by Yuri Slonimsky Юрий Слонимский and Pyotr Gusev Петр Гусев, music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburg Петр Ольденбургский, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “The Queen of the Snowflakes”, “The Nutcracker”, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the fairy-tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography by Vasily Vainonen Василий Вайнонен, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, design bySimon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “The Lilac Fairy”, “The Sleeping Beauty”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreography by Marius Petipa, revised version by Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев (1952), set and costume design by Simon Virsaladze Симон Вирсаладзе, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр (new stage), Saint Petersburg, Russia (June 9, 2021).
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Maria Bulanova Мария Буланова as “Zarema”, “The Fountain of Bakhchisarai”, choreography by Rostislav Zakharov Ростислав Захаров (1934), music by Boris Asafiev Борис Асафьев, libretto by Nikolai Volkov Николай Волков, based on the poem (1823) of the same name by Alexander Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин, set and costume design by Valentina Khodasevich Валентина Ходасевич, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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