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.)
Yuliana Chereshkevich Юлиана Черешкевич, “La Bayadère Баядерка”, choreography by Marius Petipa (1877) revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Yuliana Chereshkevich Юлиана Черешкевич, “La Bayadère Баядерка”, choreography by Marius Petipa (1877) revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev Владимир Пономарёв, Vakhtang Chabukiani Вахтанг Чабукиани (1941), Konstantin Sergeev Константин Сергеев and Nikolay Zubkovsky, music by Ludwig Minkus, costume by Evgeny Ponomarev Евгений Пономарёв, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Yuliana Chereshkevich Юлиана Черешкевич, “Swan Lake Лебединое Озеро”, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky Пётр Чайковский, libretto by Vladimir Begichev Владимир Бегичев and Vasily Geltzer Василий Гельцер, choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Лев Иванов and Konstantin Sergeev Константина Сергеев, set design by Igor Ivanov Игорь Иванов, costume design by Galina Solovyova Галина Соловьева, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Aleksandra Lampika Александра Лампика as a “Dryad”, “Don Quixote – Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, 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 Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Renata Shakirova Рената Шакирова as “Kitri” and Yevgeny Konovalov Евгений Коновалов as “Miguel Basilio”, “Don Quixote – Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский, Marius Petipa, Nina Anisimova Нина Анисимова (Gypsy and Oriental Dances) and Fyodor Lopukhov Фёдор Лопухов (Fandango), 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 Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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“Dryads”, “Don Quixote – Дон Кихот”, music by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Alexander Gorsky Александр Горский and Marius Petipa, 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 Konstantin Korovin Константин Коровин, Mariinsky Ballet Мариинский театр, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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