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 “Esmeralda”, “La Esmeralda Эсмеральда”, libretto by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер and Vassily Tikhomirov Василий Тихомиров based on the novel “Notre Dame de Paris” by Victor Hugo, choreo by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер and Sergey Filin Сергей Филин (revival), music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière and Sergey Vasilenko Сергей Василенко, set and costume design by Aleksandr Lushin Александр Лушин and Valery Leventhal Валерий Левенталь (revival), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Polina Zayarnaya Полина Заярная as one of the four “Esmeralda’s Gypsy Friends”, “La Esmeralda Эсмеральда”, choreo by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер revival by Sergey Filin, music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière, Sergey Vasilenko, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Polina Zayarnaya Полина Заярная as one of the four “Esmeralda’s Gypsy Friends”, “La Esmeralda Эсмеральда”, choreo by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер revival by Sergey Filin, music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière, Sergey Vasilenko, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Polina Zayarnaya Полина Заярная as one of the four “Esmeralda’s Gypsy Friends” and Natalia Somova Наталья Сомова as “Esmeralda”, “La Esmeralda Эсмеральда”, choreo by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер revival by Sergey Filin, music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière, Sergey Vasilenko, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Polina Zayarnaya Полина Заярная as one of the four “Esmeralda’s Gypsy Friends”, “La Esmeralda Эсмеральда”, choreo by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер revival by Sergey Filin, music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière, Sergey Vasilenko, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Erika Mikirticheva Эрика Микиртичева and Denis Dmitriev Денис Дмитриев are Principal Dancers at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Polina Zayarnaya Полина Заярная as one of the four “Esmeralda’s Gypsy Friends”, “La Esmeralda Эсмеральда”, choreo by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер revival by Sergey Filin, music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière, Sergey Vasilenko, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Moscow, Russia.
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Erika Mikirticheva Эрика Микиртичева as “Esmeralda”, “La Esmeralda” choreography by Vladimir Burmeister Владимир Бурмейстер, choreography revival by Sergey Filin, music by Cesare Pugni, Reinhold Glière ans Sergei Vasilenko, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (Stanmus) Музыкального театра им. К.С. Станиславского и Вл.И. Немировича-Данченко (MAMT), Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Ballet: The Best Photographs 