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.)
Veronika Varnovskaya Вероника Варновская as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, libretto by Marius Petipa adapted by Vladimir Vasiliev Владимир Василёв based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State Kremlin Palace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
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Valeriya Pobedinskaya Валерия Побединская as “White Pussycat” and Evgeny Korolev Евгений Королев as “Puss in Boots”, “Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreography by Marius Petipa and Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, costume design by Olga Polyanskaya Ольга Полянская, Kremlin Ballet Кремлевский балет, Great Hall of the State KremlinPalace Большой зал Государственного Кремлёвского Дворца, Moscow, Russia.
Note I: Some links leading to the english version of the Kremlin Ballet website do not work or have incomplete information. For this reason, they are published in their original version (russian). You always have the option to translate the page using the right button on your mouse.
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Valeriya Pobedinskaya Валерия Побединская as “White Pussycat” (also know as “The White Cat” or “White Kitty”), “Sleeping Beauty Спящая красавица“, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky Иван Всеволожской and Marius Petipa based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault, choreography by Marius Petipa, choreography by Marius Petipa and Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, 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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Alexandra Timofeeva Александра Тимофеева as “Firebird” and Ilya Kuznetsov Илья Кузнецов as “Prince Ivan Tsarevich”, “The Firebird”, libretto and choreography by Mikhail Fokine, music by Igor Stravinsky, reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine and Andris Liepa Андрис Лиепа, 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia.
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Svetlana Zakharova Светлана Захарова and Andrey Merkuriev Андрей Меркурьев (Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр) “Distant Cries”, choreography by Edwaard Liang, music by Tomaso Albinoni (Adagio from Concerto a Cinque Op. 9 Nº 2 in D minor for Oboe Strings and Continuo), 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia (May 22 and 23).
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Maria Kochetkova Мария Кочеткова and Taras Domitro (San Francisco Ballet), “Borderlands”, choreography and costume design by Wayne McGregor, music by Joel Cadbury and Paul Stoney, set design by Wayne McGregor and Lucy Carter, Bolshoi Theatre, 2013 Prix Benois de la Danse, Moscow, Russia.
Hélène Bouchet and Carsten Jung, (Hamburg Ballett) Third Symphony”, music by Gustav Mahler and choreography by John Neumeier, 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia (May 22 and 23, 2012)
Mathilde Froustey (San Francisco Ballet), István Simon (Dresden Semperoper Ballett), Veronika Varnovskaya Вероника Варновская and Alexandra Timofeeva Александра Тимофеева, “Giselle Жизель, libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges, choreography by Jules Perrot, Jean Coralli, Marius Petipa, scenic adaption and direction by Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, The Kremlin Ballet, V Kremlin International Ballet Festival V Международный фестиваль балета в Кремле, The Kremlin Palace (September 24, 2016)
Maria Kochetkova Мария Кочеткова (San Francisco Ballet) as “Nikiya” and Herman Cornejo (American Ballet Theatre) as “Solor”, “La Bayadere” choreography by Marius Petipa (with choreography fragments by Vladimir Ponomerev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani and Nikolay Zubkovsky), The Kremlin Palace, V Kremlin International Ballet Festival V Международный фестиваль балета в Кремле (September 29, 2016)
Joy Womack and Maxim Afanasev Максим Афанасьев, “Swan Lake Лебединое Озеро” choreography by Lev Ivanov, Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky, The Kremlin Ballet, The Kremlin Palace (April 29, 2016)
Alexandra Timofeeva Александра Тимофеева, Valeriya Pobedinskaya Валерия Побединская, Natalia Balahnicheva Наталья Балахничева, Joy Womack, Saori Koike, Veronika Varnovskaya Вероника Варновская, Egor Motuzov Егор Мотузов, Kirill Ermolenko Кирилл Ермоленко, Mikhail Evgenov Михаил Евгенов, Daniil Roslanov Даниил Росланов, Maksim Sabitov Максим Сабитов and Evgeny Korolev Евгений Королев, “One Thousand and One Nights Тысяча и одна ночь” choreography Andrey Petrov Андрей Петров, libretto by Murad and Rustam Ibragimbekov Рустам Ибрагимбеков and N.Nazimova, The Kremlin Ballet, The Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia (May 26, 2016)
(based on “One Thousand and One Nights” Arabian fairy tales, a masterpiece of medieval Arabian literature, a collection of fairy tales and parables told by Scheherazade)
Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина and Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко, Alia Khasenova Алия Хасенова, Valeriya Pobedinskaya Валерия Побединскаяand and Kirill Ermolenko Кирилл Ермоленко, “Giselle”, "Stars with Kremlin Ballet", The State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia (September 21, 2012)
Yekaterina Osmolkina Екатерина Осмолкина and Yevgeny Ivanchenko Евгений Иванченко, “Giselle”, “Stars with Kremlin Ballet”, The State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia (September 21, 2012)
Ulyana Lopatkina Ульяна Лопаткинa as “Marguerite Gautier” and Xander Parish as “Armand Duval”, “Marguerite and Armand”, choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, music by Franz Liszt (Piano Sonata in B Minor), costumes by Cecil Beaton, based on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas fils, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia (March 2015).
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Ulyana Lopatkina and Danila Korsuntsev (Mariinsky Ballet), “Diamonds” at the Bolshoi Theatre for 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse, Moscow, Russia (May 22 & 23, 2012)
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