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.)
Nathália Fernandes Menes as “Fate”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, Astana Ballet Астана Балет, Astana Ballet Theatre Астана Балет Театры, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Kalamkas Orynbasarova Каламкас Орынбасарова as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, Astana Ballet Астана Балет, Astana Ballet Theatre Астана Балет Театры, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Nathália Fernandes Menes as “Fate”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, Astana Ballet Астана Балет, Astana Ballet Theatre Астана Балет Театры, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Ainur Abilgazina Айнур Абильгазина as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, Astana Ballet Астана Балет, Astana Ballet Theatre Астана Балет Театры, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Inzhu Khassenova Инжу Хасенова as “Fate”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, choreo and libretto by Alberto Alonso (libretto based on the story “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, Astana Ballet Астана Балет, Astana Ballet Theatre Астана Балет Театры, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Maryna Vezhnavets Марына Вежнавец as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, libretto, choreo and staging by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев (libretto based on Aleksandr Blok’s cycle of poems “Carmen”), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, design by Eugene Lysik Евгений Лысик, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
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Maryna Vezhnavets Марына Вежнавец as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, libretto, choreo and staging by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев (libretto based on Aleksandr Blok’s cycle of poems “Carmen”), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, design by Eugene Lysik Евгений Лысик, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
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Maryna Vezhnavets Марына Вежнавец as “Carmen”, “Carmen Suite Кармен сюиты”, libretto, choreo and staging by Valentin Elizariev Валентин Елизарьев (libretto based on Aleksandr Blok’s cycle of poems “Carmen”), music by Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin Родион Щедрин, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, design by Eugene Lysik Евгений Лысик, Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus Большой театр Беларуси, Opierny Teatr Opera and Ballet Theatre, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
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Aizhana Mukatova Айжана Мукатова as “Carmen”, “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, costume design by Nataliya Protasova Наталия Протасова, Astana Ballet Астана Балет, Astana Ballet Theatre Астана Балет Театры, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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