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SEGERSTROM HALLOctober 12 – 15, 2017

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Global partners of the Mariinsky Theatre

Valery Gergiev, Artistic & General DirectorYury Fateev, Acting Ballet Director

Gavriel Heine, Conductor

Company

PrincipalsViktoria Tereshkina, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Oxana Skorik

Timur Askerov, Kimin Kim, Xander Parish, Vladimir Shklyarov

First soloistsAnastasia Kolegova, Yekaterina Osmolkina

Philipp Stepin

Second soloistsValeria Martynyuk , Yana Selina

Vasily Tkachenko

Principal character artistsOlga Belik

Soslan Kulaev, Andrei Yakovlev

CorypheesYuliana Chereshkevich, Xenia Dubrovina, Xenia Fateyeva, Svetlana Ivanova

Xenia Ostreikovskaya, Zlata YalinichYevgeny Konovalov, Andrei Solovyov

Female corps de ballet

Yelizaveta Antonova, Anastasia Asaben, Alisa Boyarko, Tamara GimadievaShamala Guseinova, Yulia Kobzar, Yelizaveta Kulikova, Ishii Kumiko, Alexandra Lampika

Maria Lebedeva, Anastasia Mikheikina, Natalia Pimonova, Anastasia RemkevichAlbina Satynalieva, Diana Smirnova, Nelli Smirnova

Svetlana Tychina, Anastasia Yaromenko

Male corps de balletAlexey Atamanov, Yaroslav Baibordin, Ramanbek Beishenaliev, Alexander BeloborodovOleg Demchenko, Mazim Izmestiev, Nail Khairnasov, Alexei Kuzmin, Viktor LitvinenkoDaniil Lopatin, Rufat Mamedov, Roman Malyshev, Anatoly Marchenko, Alexander Neff

Pavel Ostapenko, Yaroslav Pushkov, Maxim Petrov, Nikita Vronskikh, Eldar Yangirov, Nail Yenikeyev

About the ProgramACT I

ChopinianaChoreographic composition in one actMusic by Frédéric Chopin (Suite of piano pieces orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)Scenario by Michel FokineChoreography by Michel Fokine (1908) Revised version by Agrippina Vaganova (1931)Set design based on original sketches by Orest AllegriWorld premiere: March 8, 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

Running time: 35 minutes

“In 1906, when rehearsing the production of the first version of Chopiniana performed to Glazunov’s orchestration of Chopin’s music, I created for Pavlova and Obukhov—my friend from the ballet school—a waltz in C Sharp Minor, which was specially orchestrated by Glazunov at our request as an addition to the suite. The sylph—winged hope—flies into a romantic garden lit by the moon. She is fol-lowed by a young man. It was dancing in the style of Taglioni, in the style of that long-forgotten time when ballet was governed by poetry, when a dancer rose en pointe not to demonstrate the steel-like arch of her foot but in order to create the impression of lightness, barely touching the ground, something ethereal and fantastical. In this dance there is not one pirouette, not a single trick. But how poetic, how beautiful and how engaging was this duet in the air! The audience was enchanted, as was I. Pavlova made such a powerful impression on me that I wondered about staging an entire bal-let in this style. And by the time her next gala performance came round I had created the ballet Les Sylphides. If, back then, she had not danced Chopin’s waltz so brilliantly, so enchantingly, I would never have created this ballet.”

– Michel Fokine. Highlights from the articleMemoirs of a Ballet-Master

— I N T E R M I S S I O N —

ACT II

Le Spectre de la RoseChoreographic tableauMusic by Carl Maria von Weber (Invitation to the Dance orchestrated by Hector Berlioz)Choreography by Michel Fokine (1911)Concept by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer after the poem by Théophile GautierScenario by Michel Fokine Reconstruction by Isabelle FokineCostumes after sketches by Léon BakstWorld premiere: April 19, 1911, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de Monte Carlo In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1997

Running time: 10 minutes

In Le Spectre de la Rose there was no danc-ing to display technique... The dancing is expressive throughout. Her eyes closed, the Girl seeks out her Spectre, summoning him. In none of the movements does the Spectre resemble a typical dancer performing his vari-ations for the pleasure of the audience. He is a spirit. He is a dream. He is the scent of a rose, the caress of its delicate petals and much more besides, for which it is impossible to find the right words, he is no “cavalier” in any sense of the word, he is not the “partner of the balleri-na.” The technique of the arms in this ballet is totally different to the strong and correct arms in old ballets. Here the arms are alive, speak-ing, singing, and not performing “positions.”

– Michel Fokine. Extracts from the book Against the Current

— P A U S E —

The SwanChoreographic compositionMusic by Camille Saint-Saëns (from the Carnaval des animaux suite) Choreography by Michel Fokine (1907)World premiere: December 22, 1907, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

Running time: 4 minutes

…Our joint work (with Anna Pavlova) was The Dying Swan. It took just a few minutes to create the ballet. It was almost an improvisa-tion. I danced in front of her, she was there, just behind me. Before that production I had been accused of being involved in “barefoot” dancing and was generally opposed to dancing en pointe. The Dying Swan was my response to this criticism. This dance became a symbol of new Russian ballet. It was a serious work of perfect technique and expression. It was like a kind of proof that dance can and should not just please the eyes but also get into the soul.

– Michel Fokine. Highlights from Memoirs of a Ballet-Master

— I N T E R M I S S I O N —

ACT III

Schéhérazade Choreographic drama in one actMusic by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Symphony suite Schéhérazade) Scenario by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches by Léon BakstWorld premiere: June 4, 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: May 26, 1994

Running time: 45 minutes

Shahryar is angry because his brother Shakhezman has suggested that his wives are unfaithful to him. To test the harem Shahryar goes off on a hunting expedition. Almost as soon as the court has departed the wives adorn themselves in jewels and bribe the Chief Eunuch to open the three doors which lead to the quarters where the male slaves live. Two doors are opened and the Chief Eunuch is about to leave when Zobeide, Shahryar’s favorite wife, demands that the third door also be opened. The Eunuch warns her against this,

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but with further bribes and pleas she insists. The door is opened and the Golden Slave leaps through it to Zobeide’s side. They fall entwined upon the divan. Food is brought in to musical accompani-ment. Dancing begins, led by the Golden Slave, and Zobeide joins it. But Shahryar has returned unannounced and bursts in upon the orgy. Slaughter follows and the revellers are indiscriminately cut down. Shahryar kills Zobeide’s lover with his own hands. Only Zobeide remains. Preferring death to dishonor she faces the Shah and takes her own life.

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The Mariinsky Ballet’s Scheherazade. Photo by Natasha Razina

About the Directors

Yuri FateyevActing Ballet Director of the Ballet CompanyHonored Artist of Russia

Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Choreography School in 1982 and joined the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet Company the same year. His repertoire included the ballets Giselle, La Bayadère, Paquita, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, The Creation of the World, Le Carnaval, La fille mal gardée, The Knight in the Tiger’s Skin, Coppélia among others. In 1996 he became a coach with the Mariinsky Ballet Company, and in this post he worked on Mariinsky Theatre premiere performances of ballets by George Balanchine, Roland Petit, John Neumeier, Alexei Ratmansky, William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon and José Antonio. He has been a guest coach with the Royal Ballet in London and Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre and given master classes for the ballet company of the Opéra de Paris, as well as teaching for the Swedish Royal Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet (USA) and the Danish Royal Ballet where he staged a production of highlights from the ballet Le Corsaire. He was involved in the Kings of Dance project in Russia and the USA as well as the project Stiefel and Stars in the USA, where he staged highlights from classical ballets. Since 2008 he has been acting director of the Mariinsky Ballet Company.

Valery GergievArtistic Director of the Mariinsky Ballet

Valery Gergiev is a vivid representative of the St Petersburg conducting school and a former pupil of the legendary Professor Ilya Musin. While still a student at the Leningrad Conservatoire, Gergiev won the Herbert von Karajan Competition in Berlin and the All-Union Conducting Competition in Moscow, following which he was invited to join the Kirov Theatre (now the Mariinsky) as an assistant to the principal conductor. His debut as a conductor at the theatre came in January 1978 with Sergei Prokofiev’s opera War and Peace. In 1988 Valery Gergiev was appointed music director of the Mariinsky Theatre, and in 1996 he became its artistic and general director (leading the orchestra and opera and ballet companies). With the arrival of Gergiev at the helm, it became a tradition to hold major thematic festivals marking various anniversaries of composers. In 1989 there was a festival marking 150 years of Modest Musorgsky, in 1990 there was one commemorating 150 years of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, in 1991 there was another marking 100 years of Sergei Prokofiev and in 1994 there was another marking 150 years of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. These festivals saw performances not only of well-known scores but also of rarely performed pieces or works that had never been staged before at all. The tradition of anniversary festivals has continued in the 21st century with a celebration of 100 years of Dmitry Shostakovich in 2006, another marking 175 years of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in 2015 and a third marking 125 years of Sergei Prokofiev in 2016. Through maestro Gergiev’s efforts the Mariinsky Theatre has revived operas by Richard Wagner. In 1997 came Parsifal, which had not been performed in Russia for more than 80 years, in 1999 Lohengrin was revived and by 2003 the grandiose operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen had been staged in full. That was the first time following an

interval of almost a century that the complete tetralogy was staged in Russia and the first production in Russia to be performed in the original German. The tetralogy has been performed on Mariinsky Theatre tours to great acclaim in Moscow as well as abroad—in the USA, South Korea, Japan, Great Britain and Spain. The theatre’s repertoire also includes productions of Tristan und Isolde (2005) and Der Fliegende Holländer (1998, 2008). The Mariinsky Orchestra under Gergiev has scaled new heights, assimilating not just opera and ballet scores, but also an expansive symphony music repertoire—every symphony by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich and works by Berlioz, Bruckner, Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Strauss, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Ustvolskaya, Shchedrin, Kancheli and other composers. Under the direction of Gergiev the Mariinsky Theatre has become a major theatre and concert complex, without par anywhere in the world. In 2006 the Concert Hall was opened, followed in 2013 by the theatre’s second stage (the Mariinsky-II), while since January 1, 2016 the Mariinsky Theatre has had a branch in Vladivostok—the Primorsky Stage. Other projects of Gergiev hosted by the Mariinsky Theatre include media broadcasting, online broadcasts of concerts and the establishment of a recording studio. 2009 saw the launch of the Mariinsky label, which to date has released more than 30 discs that have received great acclaim from the critics and the public throughout the world; these recordings include symphonies by Tchaikovsky, and piano concerti by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, operas by Wagner, Massenet and Donizetti and an entire plethora of other works. Works by Verdi (Attila) Tchaikovsky (symphonies), Rimsky-Korsakov (The Golden Cockerel), Strauss (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, The Gambler Semyon Kotko) have been released on DVD. Gergiev’s international activities are no less intensive and active. Having made debuts in 1992 at the Bayerishe Staatsoper (Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov), in 1993 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin) and in 1994 at the Metropolitan Opera (Verdi’s Otello with Plácido Domingo in the

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title role), the maestro successfully continues to collaborate with the world’s great opera houses. He works with the World Orchestra for Peace (which he has directed since 1997 following the death of the ensemble’s founder Sir Georg Solti), the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin, Paris, Vienna, New York and Los Angeles, the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Boston and San Francisco, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam) and many other ensembles. From 1995 to 2008 Gergiev was principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (of which he remains an honorary conductor to this day), and from 2007 to 2015 he was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Since autumn 2015 the maestro has headed the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Gergiev is the founder and director of prestigious international festivals including the Stars of the White Nights (since 1993), the Moscow Easter Festival (since 2002), the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam, the Mikkeli Festival and the 360 Degrees festival in Munich. Since 2011 he has directed the organisational committee of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Gergiev focuses much of his attention on working with young musicians. One of his initiatives saw the revival of the All-Russian Choral Society; this includes the Children’s Chorus of Russia, which has appeared at the Mariinsky-II, the Bolshoi Theatre and at the closing ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympics in Sochi. Since 2013 the maestro has directed the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and regularly appears with the youth orchestras of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Verbier Festival and the Pacific Ocean Music Festival in Sapporo. Since 2015 the Mariinsky Theatre has run the Mariinsky NEXT annual festival, which features children’s and youth orchestras of St Petersburg. Gergiev’s musical and public activities have brought him three State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1993, 1998 and 2015), the titles of People’s Artist of the Russian Federation (1996) and Hero of Labour (2013), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2016), the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence Arts and Culture Award (2017) and prestigious State awards of Armenia, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, France and Japan.

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The Mariinsky Ballet’s Le Spectre de la Rose. Photo by Natasha Razina

About the Artists

Viktoria Tereshkina Honoured Artist of Russia (2008). Prize winner at the Perm International Ballet Competition (2006). Recipient of the Spirit of Dance prize from Ballet magazine (2006) and the Golden Sofit, St. Petersburg’s theater prize (2006). Recipient of the Dance Open International ballet prize in the category “Miss Virtuosa” (2010). Born in Krasnoyarsk. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2001 and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company where she is now a Prima balle-rina. Her repertoire includes principal roles in all classical ballets that are performed at the Mariinsky Theatre (Giselle (Giselle), La Bayadère (Nikia), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), Raymonda (Raymonda), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Le Corsaire (Medora), Don Quixote (Kitri)) as well as ballets by Michel Fokine, Yuri Grigorovich, Harald Lander, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Frederic Ashton, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Alexei Ratmansky, Angelin Preljocaj and Wayne McGregor. In 2014 she made her debut with American Ballet Theatre as Nikia in the ballet La Bayadère.

Yekaterina Kondaurova Recipient of the Benois de la Danse (2006), the Golden Sofit (2008), Golden Mask (2011) prizes and Ballet magazine’s prize in the category “The Spirit of Dance – 2011.” Born in Moscow. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet after graduating from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2001. Principal since 2012. Her repertoire includes Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), La Bayadère (Nikia and Gamzatti), Raymonda (Raymonda), Le Corsaire (Medora), Giselle (Myrtha), The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy), Leonid Yakobson’s Spartacus (Phrygia and

Aegina), George Balanchine’s ballets Prodigal Son (the Siren), Serenade, Symphony in C (Second Movement), The Four Temperaments (Choleric), Jewels (Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds), La Valse and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania, Hippolyta), Yuri Grigorovich’s The Legend of Love (Mekhmeneh Bahnu), Alexei Ratmansky’s Anna Karenina (Anna), Cinderella (Stepmother), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Mare) as well as ballets by Michel Fokine, Frederic Ashton, Jerome Robbins, Roland Petit, William Forsythe, Pier Lacotte, Angelin Preljocaj and Wayne McGregor.

Oxana Skorik Recipient of Léonide Massine International Prize For the Art of Dance (Positano, Italy, 2014), the Spirit of Dance prize in the category “Rising Star” (2012), prize winner at the XII International Ballet Dancers’ and Choreographers’ Competition in Moscow (2nd prize, 2013). Born in Kharkov (Ukraine). Graduated from the Perm School of Dance in 2007. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year. Her repertoire includes La Sylphide (Sylph), Giselle (Giselle), La Bayadère (Nikia), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Lilac Fairy, Princess Florine), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), Le Corsaire (Medora), Raymonda (Raymonda) Don Quixote (Kitri, Queen of the Dryads), The Nutcracker (Masha), Michel Fokine’s Schéhérazade (Zobeide) and Chopiniana, George Balanchine’s ballets Serenade, Symphony in C, Jewels (Diamonds, Rubies), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Piano Concerto No 2. Ballet Imperial, Alexei Ratmansky’s Anna Karenina (Anna) as well as The Legend of Love (Mekhmeneh-Bahnu) by Yuri Grigorovich, ballets by Frederic Ashton and Infra by Wayne McGregor.

Timur Askerov Recipient of the Spirit of Dance prize in the category “Rising Star” (2012), prize-winner at the XII International Ballet Dancers’ and Choreographers’ Competition in Moscow (1st prize, 2013). Born in Baku (Azerbaijan). Graduated from the Baku School of Dance in 2008. The same year he joined the Azerbaijan State Academic Mirza Fatali Akhundov Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2009–2011 he worked at the National Academic Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2011. His repertoire includes Giselle (Count Albrecht), Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré), La Bayadère (Solor), Raymonda (Jean de Brienne), Don Quixote (Basilio), The Nutcracker (The Nutcracker Prince), Alberto Alonso’s Carmen-Suite (Josè), George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon) and Jewels (Diamonds), Marguerite and Armand (Armand) by Frederick Ashton. In April 2015 at the Bolshoi Theatre he performed the role of Ferkhad in the ballet The Legend of Love with choreography by Yuri Grigorovich.

Kim Kimin Prize winner at international ballet compe-titions in Rome (1st prize, 2008), Moscow (2nd prize, 2009), Seoul (1st prize, 2009), Jackson (2nd prize, 2010), Varna (1st prize, 2010), the Arabesque international ballet competition in Perm (Grand Prix 2012), the Youth America Grand Prix interna-tional competition in New York (Grand Prix, 2012), recipient of the Benois de la Danse prize (2016). Born in Seoul. Graduated from the Korea National University of Arts. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2012. Principal

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dancer since 2015. His repertoire includes: Giselle (Count Albrecht); Le Corsaire (Ali); Don Quixote (Basilio); La Bayadère (Solor, Golden Idol); Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried); The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré); Michel Fokine’s ballets Le Spectre de la rose and Schéhérazade (the Golden Slave), George Balanchine’s ballets Jewels (Rubies), Symphony in C (III. Allegro vivace) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pas de deux from Act II); The Nutcracker (Nutcracker Prince) by Vasily Vainonen; Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio) by Leonid Lavrovsky; Études by Harald Lander; Sylvia (Aminta) by Frederick Ashton, The Legend of Love (Ferkhad) by Yuri Grigorovich, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude by William Forsythe, Concerto DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky and Infra by Wayne McGregor.

Xander Parish Recipient of the Young British Dancer of the Year award (2nd prize, London, 2004), Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award (Royal Ballet School, 1st prize, 2003), prize winner at the Adeline Genée International Ballet Competition (Silver Medal, Athens, 2004), the Taglioni Award in the cat-egory “Best Young Male Dancer” (2014), the Léonide Massine Prize in the category “Emerging Talent on the International Scene” (Positano, Italy, 2014), Britain’s National Dance Awards in the category “Outstanding Male Performance” (2015). Born in Yorkshire (Great Britain). Graduated from the Royal Ballet School in 2005 and joined the Royal Ballet Company. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2010. Principal dancer since 2017. His repertoire includes Giselle (Count Albrecht), Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré), Raymonda (Jean de Brienne), Michel Fokine’s Chopiniana, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, Paris) by Leonid Lavrovsky, George Balanchine’s Apollo (Apollo), Serenade, Symphony in C, Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius), Sylvia (Aminta) and Marguerite and Armand (Armand) by

Frederick Ashton, Alexei Ratmansky’s Anna Karenina (Count Vronsky), Le Parc choreo-graphed by Angelin Preljocaj as well as the ballets by Hans van Manen.

Vladimir Shklyarov Prize winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Competition (St Petersburg, 2002) and the International Ballet and Choreography Competition (Moscow, 2009). Recipient of prizes including the Spirit of Dance (2008), the Leonid Massine International Prize (Positano, 2008), the Zegna – Mariinsky New Talent Award (London, 2008) and DANCE OPEN international ballet prize in the category “Mr Vituoso” (2014). Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 2003. Principal dancer since 2011. Performs lead roles in all of the theatre’s classical ballet repertoire (La Sylphide (James), Giselle (Count Albrecht), Le Corsaire (Ali), La Bayadère (Solor), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré), Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried), Raymonda (Jean de Brienne), Don Quixote (Basilio)) as well as ballets by George Balanchine, Harald Lander, Frederic Ashton, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor and Alexei Ratmansky. In 2012 at the Bolshoi Theatre he performed the role of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake. In 2014 he made his debut with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) as Solor in the ballet La Bayadère, in 2015 at ABT he performed the role of Count Albrecht in Giselle. From the 2016/2017 season Vladimir Shklyarov is a Principal dancer with the Bayerisches Staatsballett.

Anastasia Kolegova Prize winner at International Ballet Competitions in Rieti (Italy, 2000) and Varna (Bulgaria, 2002). Born in Chelyabinsk. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2000 and has performed with various dance companies in St Petersburg and Vilnius. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2006. Her repertoire includes: La Sylphide (Sylph), Giselle (Giselle), Le Corsaire (Medora, Gulnare), La Bayadère (Nikia, Gamzatti), The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, Lilac Fairy, Princess Florine), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), Raymonda (Raymonda), Don Quixote (Kitri), Michel Fokine’s Chopiniana, Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) and Balanchine’s Apollo (Calliope, Polyhymnia), Serenade, Symphony in C, Prodigal Son (the Siren), Emeralds and La Valse, The Little Humpbacked Horse (Tsar Maiden) by Alexei Ratmansky, as well as ballets by Alberto Alonso, Frederick Ashton and Hans van Manen.

Yekaterina Osmolkina Prize winner at the International Vaganova-Prix Competition (St Petersburg, 1998). Prize winner at the International Ballet Competition (Seoul, 2004). Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St. Petersburg’s highest theatre prize (2006). Born in Kishinev (Moldova). Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1999. Her repertoire includes La Sylphide (the Sylph), Giselle (Giselle, Classical Duet), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile, Friends of the Prince), Le Corsaire (Gulnare), La Bayadère (Gamzatti), The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, Princess Florine), Don Quixote (Kitri, Queen of the Dryads), Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana

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and Le Spectre de la rose as well as ballets by George Balanchine’s Apollo (Terpsichore), Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Serenade, Symphony in C (3rd Movement), Theme and Variations, The Four Temperaments and Ballet Imperial; Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Vasily Vainonen’s The Nutcracker (Masha), The Legend of Love (Shyrin) by Yuri Grigorovich, William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude.

Philipp Stepin Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 2005 and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company the same year; soloist since 2009. His repertoire includes a vast range of roles in classical ballets: Don Quixote (Basilio), Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried), Le Corsaire (Ali, Lankedem), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Dèsirè), La Sylphide (James), Giselle (Count Albrecht, Classical Duet), La Bayadère (the Golden Idol), Michel Fokine’s Chopiniana, Le Carnaval (Harlequin), Le Spectre de la rose and Pétrouchka (Pétrouchka), George Balanchine’s Symphony in C (III. Allegro vivace), Theme and Variations, Tarantella, Jewels (Emeralds, Rubies), Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon, Pas de deux from Act II), Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), William Forsythe’s Steptext and In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, as well as the ballets of Michel Fokine, Leonid Yakobson, George Balanchine, Frederic Ashton, Alexei Ratmansky, Benjamin Millepied and Wayne McGregor.

Valeria Martynyuk Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and joined the Mariinsky Bal-let Company in 2004. Her repertoire includes Giselle (Classical Duet), La Bayadère (Manu, Trio of Shadows), The Sleeping Beauty (Canary Fairy, White Cat, Little Red Riding-Hood, Diamond Fairy, Carefree Fairy), Raymonda (Grand pas variation), Le Corsaire (Gulnare), Don Quixote (Kitri, Amour), Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana and Pétrouchka (Ballerina), George Bal-anchine’s ballets Theme and Variations, Scotch Symphony, The Four Temperaments (Melancholic), Piano Concerto No 2. Ballet Imperial, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (But-terfly), Jewels (Emeralds), Tarantella and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Vasily Vainonen’s The Nutcracker (Masha), Leonid Yakobson’s Shurale (Syuimbike), Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Cinderella), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Tsar Maiden) and Concerto DSCH, William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude.

Yana Selina Born in St. Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1997. Joined the Mariinsky Ballet in the same year. Her repertoire includes: La Sylphide (the Sylph), Giselle (Monna, Zulma, Pas de deux), Le Corsaire (Trio of Odalisques), La Bayadère (D’jampe, Trio of Shades), The Sleeping Beauty (Canary Fairy, Little Red Riding-Hood, White Cat), Le Réveil de Flore (Aurore), Swan lake (Pas de trois, Neapolitan Dance), Don Quixote (Amour, Flower-Sellers), Raymonda (Henrietta), Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana, Carnaval (Columbine, Butterfly), Le Spectre de la rose (the Girl) and Pétrouchka (Balerina), George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo

(Calliope, Polyhymnia), Symphony in C, Theme and Variations, The Four Temperaments (Melancholy), Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Piano Concerto No 2.Ballet Imperial, Scotch Symphony, La Valse and Serenade, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria) by Rostislav Zakharov, and the roles in the ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, William Forsythe, David Dawson and John Neumeier.

Vasily Tkachenko Born in St. Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2008. His repertoire includes Giselle (Classical Duet), La Sylphide (James), La Bayadère (Golden Idol), Swan Lake (Jester, Neapolitan Dance), Raymonda (Grand pas), Le Corsaire (Lankedem), Michel Fokine’s Le Carnaval (Harlequin) and Le Spectre de la rose, Leonid Yakobson’s Spartacus (the Gaul, Etruscans), Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio, Jester), Yuri Grigorovich’s The Legeng of Love (Joker), George Balanchine’s ballets Symphony in C (I. Allegro vivo , III. Allegro vivace), Theme and Variations, Jewels (Rubies, Emeralds), Scotch Symphony, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck) and Prodigal Son (Friends of the Prodigal), Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Spring), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Ivan the Fool, the Little Humpbacked Horse) and Concerto DSCH as well as William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and Wayne McGregor’s Infra.

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Xenia Ostreikovskaya Born in Obninsk (Kaluga region). Graduated from the Perm Ballet School. Joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1996. Her reper-toire includes: La Bayadère (Gamzatti, D’Jampe, Trio of Shades), The Sleeping Beauty (White Cat), Le Corsaire (Trio of Odalisques), Swan Lake (Friends of the Prince, Neapolitan Dance), Raymonda (Henrietta, Clémence), Don Quixote (Flower-Sellers, Queen of the Dryads); Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana, Le Spectre de la Rose (The Maiden) and Le Carnaval (Chiarina), Rostislav Zakharov’s The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria), George Balanchine’s ballets Serenade, Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), Symphony in C (2nd movement, Adagio), Theme and Variations, La Valse, Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), Études by Harald Lander, Alexei Ratmansky’s Le Poeme de l´Extase and Anna Karenina (Dolly), John Neumeier’s ballets Spring and Fall and Sounds of Empty Pages, Hans van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier.

Xenia Fateyeva Born in St Petersburg. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and joined the Mariinsky Ballet in 2015. Her rep-ertoire includes La Sylphide (Sylphs), Giselle (Zulma), The Sleeping Beauty (the Tenderness Fairy), Swan Lake (Brides of the Prince), Chopiniana (Prelude) by Michel Fokine as well as Le Parc by Angelin Preljocaj.

Svetlana Ivanova Born in Cheboksary. Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1993 and became a soloist in 1998. Her repertoire includes La Sylphide (Sylph), The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Florine), Don Quixote (Amour), as well as ballets by Michel Fokine Chopiniana, Le Carnaval (Butterfly), Le Spectre de la rose, George Balanchine’s Jewels (Emeralds), Symphony in C (2nd Movement), The Four Temperaments and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Butterfly), Carmen-Suite (Tobacco Factory-Workers) by Alberto Alonso, William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Anna Karenina (Kitty) and Concerto DSCH, ballets by Pierre Lacotte, Harald Lander, Yuri Grigorovich, David Dawson, John Neumeier, Benjamin Millepied, Radu Poklitaru.

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The Mariinsky OrchestraGavriel Heine Graduated from the Moscow Conservatory cello class in 1998, he later studied conduc-ting in St. Petersburg Conservatory under Ilya Musin and Leonid Korchmar. From 2003 to 2007 Heine was principal guest conductor of the Slobozhansky Youth Orchestra (Kharkiv, Ukraine). Invited by Valery Gergiev in 2007, he began working at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he debuted with Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Heine participated in establishing of the educational subscription concerts The Academy of Young Theatre Goers and the contemporary music festival New Horizons. As a guest conductor he collaborated with St. Petersburg State Capella Symphony Orchestra, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, New Russia Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, La Verdi Orchestra and other ensembles. Since 2011 he has been musical director of the Northern Lights festival in Minnesota, USA. At the Mariinsky Theatre Heine conducts opera and ballet as well as symphonic concerts. His repertoire covers operas from Mozart (Die Zauberflöte) to Britten (The Turn of the Screw) and ballets from classical 19th-century works to contemporary productions. The musical My

Fair Lady (2012) and the ballet Sylvia (2014) were first performed at the Mariinsky under his direction. Heine conducted the orchestra on the Mariinsky ballet tours to Great Britain and the USA (2014–2016).

The Mariinsky Orchestra is one of the old-est musical ensembles in Russia. It can trace its history back to the early 18th century and the development of the Court Instrumental Kapella. In the 19th century, an extremely important role in the emergence of the Mariinsky Orchestra was played by Eduard Napravnik, who directed it for over half a cen-tury. The excellence of the orchestra was rec-ognised on numerous occasions by the world-class musicians who conducted it, among them Berlioz, Wagner, von Bülow, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Nikisch and Rachmaninoff. In Soviet times, the ensemble’s illustrious tradi-tions were continued by conductors such as Vladimir Dranishnikov, Ariy Pazovsky, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Konstantin Simeonov and Yuri Temirkanov. The orchestra has had the honour of being the first to perform many operas and ballets by Tchaikovsky, operas by Glinka, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov and ballets by Shostakovich, Khachaturian and Asafiev. Since 1988, the orchestra has been directed by Valery Gergiev, a musician of the highest order and an outstanding figure in the music world. Maestro Gergiev’s arrival at the helm ushered in a new era of rapid expansion of the orchestra’s repertoire, which today includes every symphony by Beethoven, Mahler, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Requiems by Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms and Tishchenko and various works by compos-ers such as Stravinsky, Messiaen, Dutilleux, Henze, Shchedrin, Gubaidulina, Kancheli and Karetnikov. The orchestra performs programs of symphony music at prestigious concert ven-ues throughout the world.

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VIOLASLitvinov VladimirBarsov YevgenyMaximova OlgaVeselov DmitryVainer AngelinaKozlova SvetlanaVasileshnikova Elizaveta CELLOSPonomarenko AlexanderGanenko DmitryGinosian SarkisTravkina EkaterinaKirillov DmitryKozhevnikova Tatiana DOUBLE BASSESRyabokon VladislavShilo AlexanderRakitsky VasilyNefedov Vladimir FLUTESViland VasilyCherezova DianaProkofieva Polina

OBOESSveshnikov AlexanderTerentiev PavelYankovsky Andrey CLARINETSBondarenko VadimKultygin Vasily BASSOONSMakarov ArsenyRomanchak Miroslav FRENCH HORNSProkofiev IgorLezhnin DmitryIoanissian NikitaMusarov, Vitaly TRUMPETSNikonov GennadyKan VasilyNikoforov AlekseiPanasyuk Viacheslav

TROMBONESTimofeyev NikolayArkhipov FedorBelyaev Ilya TUBADzhioev Boris PERCUSSIONSPetrov AlexanderNovikov AlexanderIvanov VladislavKniga ValeryIvanov Daniil HARPKlass Elena CARPENTERRomanov Andrey

Mariinsky Orchestra

CONDUCTORGavriel Heine

BALLET-MASTERS AND REPETITEURSRedzhepmyrat AbdyevVladimir KimLyubov KunakovaVanda LubkvoskayaIgor PetrovElvira TarasovaElena Yevteeva ASSISTANT DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE BALLET COMPANYOF THE MARIINSKY THEATRESergey Proskuryakov STAGE MANAGERSergey Salikov

COORDINATOR OF WORK WITH THE SUPPLEMENTARY BALLET CASTNadezhda Demakova

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERIrina ZagrebinaPIANISTSAlexandra ZhilinaDmitry Sarytsyn

DOCTORMikhail Turbin MASSEURSIgor MaksimovZoya Kharlanova

The Mariinsky Ballet Administration and StaffValery Gergiev, Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre

Yury Fateev, Acting Ballet Director

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Mariinsky Production Team:

Production Manager: Malykin OlegHead Carpenter: Gulevich AlexanderCarpenters: Popov Alexey, Vinogradov Evgeny, Eremeev Maxm, Kuzovkin AlexanderLighting Supervisor: Lukin SergeyLighting Designer: Vints IgorElectrician: Solonitsyn VitalyVideo Engineer: Babaev RustamProps: Yanukian Boris, Zakharova NataliaWomen’s Wardrobe: Sukhodolets Tatiana, Morozova Elena, Belyaeva Yulia, Alieva FavziaMen’s Wardrobe: Petrova Elena, Vasilieva Nadezhda, Semenova Margarita, Shepovalova NadezhdaWomen’s Make-up: Tsarik TatianaMen’s Make-up: Kostenetskaya Olga, Aleynikova LyudmilaProduction staff: Oleg Malykin

Staff

Staff for Ardani Artists Management:Sergei Danilian, President & CEO

Gaia Danilian, Vice-President

Andrey Gonyaev, Tour Manager

Michael Vool, Production Manager

Alexander Shargorodsky, Assistant to Production

Beth Shvarts, Accountant

Travel, Cargo: Road Rebel, MOSCO, DVS

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