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.)
“Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Ashley Ellis, “Sugar Plum Fairy”, “The Nutcracker”, music by Pyotr Tschaikowsky Пётр Чайковский, choreography by Mikko Nissinen, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola, Boston Ballet, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Giselle” and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Count Albrecht”, “Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Giselle”, “Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 21, 2019, historic stage).
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“Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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“Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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“Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Giselle” and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Count Albrecht”, “Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 19 and 21, historic stage).
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Olga Smirnova Ольга Смирнова as “Giselle” and Artemy Belyakov Артемий Беляков as “Count Albrecht”, “Giselle”, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola with the use of Alexandre Benois’ sketches, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (November 19 and 21, historic stage).
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Misa Kuranaga 倉永美沙 and Paulo Arrais, “The Nutcracker”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, choreography by Mikko Nissinen, set and costume design by Robert Perdziola, Boston Ballet
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Isabella Boylston as “Columbine” and James Whiteside as “Harlequin”, “Harlequinade” choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский after Marius Petipa, music by Riccardo Drigo, scenery and costumes by Robert Perdziola, lighting by Brad Fields, American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City (June 4, 2018)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 