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.)
Viktoria Zueva Виктория Зуева, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, choreo by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Aleksey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), music by Ludwig Minkus, costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, 2023 Beijing Bolshoi Ballet Summer Tour, National Centre for the Performing Arts 国家大剧院, Xicheng District, Beijing, China.
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Mercedes”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexei Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia.
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 16).
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 16).
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 16).
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 16).
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 16).
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Gipsy Girl”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexey Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 16).
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Vasilisa Derendyaeva Василиса Дерендяева as “Mercedes”, “Don Quixote Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa and Alexei Fadeyechev Алексей Фадеечев, libretto by Marius Petipa 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), costume design by Elena Zaitseva Елена Зайцева, Bolshoi Ballet Большой театр, Moscow, Russia (February 15).
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