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.)
Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Alina Kaicheva Алина Каичеваева as “Ludmila” and Mikhail Evgenov Михаил Евгенов as “Ruslan”, “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreo by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Photographer Yekaterina Lola Екатерина Лола (Kate Lola)
Anzhelina Avdanina Ангелина Авданина and Anastasia Chernova Анастасия Чернова, “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Photographer Yekaterina Lola Екатерина Лола (Kate Lola)
Anastasia Shelomentseva Анастасия Шеломенцева as a “Magical Maidens”, “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Alina Lipchuk Алина Липчук as a “Magical Maidens”, “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (May 9).
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Photographer Andrey Ponomarenko Андрей Пономаренко
Zlata Dorofeeva Злата Дорофеева as “Gorislava Горислава” (Ratmir’s captive woman), “Ruslan and Ludmila Руслан и Людмила”, libretto by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров based on the poem by Aleksandr Pushkin Александр Пуyшкин and the opera of the same name by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, music by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка and Vladislav Agafonnikov Владислав Агафонников, choreography by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, set design by Marina Sokolova Марина Соколова, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia (May 9).
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Daria Khokhlova Дарья Хохлова and Artur Mkrtchyan Артур Мкртчян, “Silentium”, music by Arvo Pärt, choreography by Martin Chaix, costume design by Aleksandar Noshpal Александр Ношпал. As part of the program “Four Characters in Search of a Plot” (“The Ninth Wave” by Mikhail Glinka Михаил Глинка, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Николай Римский-Корсаков and Bryan Arias; “Just” by David Lang and Simone Valastro; “Fading” byEnrique Granados and Dimo Milev Димо Милев; and “Silentium”), Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (September 22, New Stage).
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