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
Aleksandra Krisa Александра Криса as “Masha” and Egor Motuzov Егор Мотузов as “Nutcracker Prince”, “The Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa as adapted by Andrei Petrov Андрей Петров based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography and direction by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, scene design by Anatoly Nezhny Анатолий Нежный, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, 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
Aleksandra Krisa Александра Криса as “Marie” and Egor Motuzov Егор Мотузов as “The Nutcracker Prince”, “The Nutcracker Щелкунчик”, libretto by Marius Petipa as adapted by Andrei Petrov Андрей Петров based on the fairy tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” (1816) by Ernst Hoffmann, choreography and direction by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, scene design by Anatoly Nezhny Анатолий Нежный, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, The Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Maia Makhateli მაია მახათელი as “Clara” and Jakob Feyferlik as “Prince”, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, choreography by Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling, set and costume by Toer van Schayk, based on the Christmas classic fairy-tale of the same name by Ernst Hoffmann, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (December 11).
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Anna Tsygankova Анна Цыганкова as “Clara” and Matthew Golding as “Prince”, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, choreography by Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling, sets and costumes by Toer van Schayk, based on the Christmas classic fairy-tale of the same name by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Anna Tsygankova Анна Цыганкова as “Clara”, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, choreography by Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling based on the Christmas classic fairy-tale of the same name
by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (tomorrow, december 20, 2019).
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Qian Liu as “Clara” and Young Gyu Choi as “Prince”, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, choreography by Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling based on the Christmas classic fairy-tale of the same name
by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (December 14).
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Anastasia Soboleva Анастасия Соболева as “Cinderella” and Viktor Lebedev Виктор Лебедев as “Prince”, “Cinderella” choreography by Rostislav Zakharov and Mikhail Messere, libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков based on the fairytale of the same name by Charles Perrault, music by Sergey Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев, Mikhailovsky Ballet Михайловский театр
Sergey Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” premiere at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: September 14, 2017
Oleg Gabyshev Олег Габышев as “Tchaikovsky”, Sergei Volobuev Сергей Волобуев as “Tchaikovsky’s Twin” (also as “Von Rothbart” from “Swan Lake”, Drosselmeyer from “The Nutcracker”, “Eugene Onegin from “Eugene Onegin” and “Herman” from “The Queen of Spades”), Lyubov Andreyeva Любовь Андреева as “Antonina Miliukova” (Tchaikovsky’s wife), Maria Abashova Мария Абашова as “Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck” (Tchaikovsky’s patroness and close friend) and “Countess” from the “The Queen of Spades”, Dmitry Savinov as “Prince” from “The Nutcracker”, Polina Gorbunova Полина Горбунова as “Masha” from “The Nutcracker”, Leonid Leontyev Леонид Леонтьев as “Vladimir Lensky” from “Onegin”, Lilia Lishchuk Лилия Лищук as “Tatyana Larina” from “Onegin”, Alina Bakalova Алина Бакалова as “Olga” from “Onegin” and Dmitry Krylov Дмитрий Крылов as “Joker” from the “The Queen of Spades”, “Tchaikovsky. Pro et Contra Чайковский. Pro et Contra” choreography by Boris Eifman Борис Эйфман, Eifman Ballet Театр балета Бориса Эйфмана, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (June 29, 2016)
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Natalia Kleymenova Наталия Клеймёнова as “Cinderella” and Denis Dmitriev Денис Дмитриев as “Prince”, “Cinderella – Золушка” choreography by Oleg Vinogradov Олег Виноградов, music by Sergei Prokofiev Сергей Прокофьев and libretto by Nikolay Volkov Николай Волков based on the story by Charles Perrault, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (Stanmus)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 