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.)
Anastasia Limenko Анастасия Лименько as Princess Stéphanie of Belgium and Sergei Polunin Сергеeй Полуyнин as “Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria” (Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph), “Mayerling”, choreography by Sir Kenneth McMillan, music by Franz Liszt, libretto by Gillian Freeman (based on the Mayerling Incident), costume design by Nicholas Georgiadis, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia (2015).
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Elena Glurdjidze and Ivan Putrov, “Ithaka”, based on the poem of the same name by Constantine Cavafy, choreography by Ivan Putrov, music by Paul Dukas, set design by Gary Hume, from the program “Men in Motion” (“Narcisse” by Kasian Goleizovsky and performed by Sergei Polunin, “AfterLight” by Russell Maliphant and performed by Daniel Proietto and “Ithaka”), English National Ballet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England (January 27, 2012).
Natalia Osipova Наталья Осипова and Sergei Polunin Серге́й Полу́нин, “Scriabiniana” choreography by Kasyan Goleizovsky and music by Alexander Scriabin from “Satori” (“First Solo” by Andrey Kaydanovskiy, “Scriabiniana” by Kasyan Goleizovsky and “Satori” by Sergei Polunin), “Project Polunin”, English National Opera (December 2017)
Natalia Osipova Наталья Осипова as “Aegina” and Sergei Polunin Сергей Полунин as “Crasus”, “Spartacus” choreography by Yuri Grigorovich, music by Aram Khachaturian, Bayerisches Staatsballett Bavarian State Ballet. Premiere on December 22, 2016, Nationaltheater München Munich National Theatre, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Natalia Osipova Наталья Осипова and Sergei Polunin Серге́й Полу́нин, “Silet Echo” choreography by Russell Maliphant, from “Tour de Force III” (“Clay” choreography by Vladimir Varnava Владимир Варнава, “Zeitgeist” choreography by Alastair Marriott (in its place “Silet Echo”), “Tristesse” by Marcelo Gomes and “Le Divertissement du Roi” by Maxim Petrov), Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, California, USA (August 27, 2016)
Natalia Osipova Наталья Осипова and Sergei Polunin Серге́й Полу́нин, “Giselle Жизель“, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
Svetlana Zakharova Светлана Захарова as “Giselle”, Sergei Polunin Серге́й Полу́нин as “Albrecht”, Luisa Ieluzzi as “Myrtha”, Annalina Nuzzo and Anna Chiara Amirante as Due Willi, “Giselle” (Act II) choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, new version by Ludmila Semenyaka, Teatro Di San Carlo, Naples, Italy (August 2, 2015)
Svetlana Zakharova Светлана Захарова (Bolshoi Ballet) as “Giselle”, Sergei Polunin Cерге́й Полу́нин (Stanislavsky Ballet) as “Albrecht” and Edmondo Tucci (Teatro Di San Carlo) as “Hilarion”, “Giselle” (Act I) choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, new version by Ludmila Semenyaka, Teatro Di San Carlo, Naples, Italy (August 2, 2015)
Svetlana Zakharova Светлана Захарова and Sergei Polunin Серге́й Полу́нин, “Giselle” choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, new version by Ludmila Semenyaka, Teatro Di San Carlo, Naples, Italy (August 2, 2015)
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