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Wednesday through Friday, October 30 – November 1, 2019, 8pm Saturday, November 2, 2019, 1pm and 8pm Sunday, November 3, 2019, 3pm Zellerbach Hall Mariinsky Ballet & Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Russia

Valery Gergiev, artistic and general director Yury Fateev, acting ballet director Alexei Repnikov, conductor

Global Partners of the Mariinsky eatre are Sberbank, Yoko Ceschina, and VTB.

These performances are made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsors Ivan and Maris Meyerson, and Deborah and Bob Van Nest. Cal Performances’ 2019 –20 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo.

COMPANY

Principals Ekaterina Kondaurova Kimin Kim, Vladimir Shklyarov, Andrei Yermakov

First Soloists Nadezhda Batoeva, Maria Khoreva, Olesya Novikova, Renata Shakirova Philipp Stepin, Konstantin Zverev

Second Soloists Yekaterina Chebykina, Anastasia Lukina, May Nagahisa, Anastasia Nuikina, Yana Selina, Maria Shirinkina Roman Belyakov, David Zaleyev

Principal Character Artists Soslan Kulaev, Andrei Yakovlev

Coryphées Yuliana Chereshkevich, Shamala Guseinova, Svetlana Ivanova, Anastasia Petushkova Vasily Shcherbakov

Corps de Ballet Anastasia Asaben, Vlada Borodulina, Maria Bulanova, Anastasia Demidova, Nadezhda Dvurechenskaya, Xenia Fateyeva, Laura Fernandez, Salomé Figueiredo de Santana, Margarita Frolova, Tamara Gimadieva, Olga Gromova, Maria Iliushkina, Daria Ionova, Alexandra Khiteeva, Lira Khuslamova, Alina Krasovskaya, Elizaveta Kulikova, Alexandra Lampika, Maria Lebedeva, Biborka Lendvai, Anastasia Mikheikina, Olga Minina, Alexandra Popova, Anastasia Remkevich, Svetlana Savelieva, Marina Teterina, Lea omasson, Anastasia Tkachenko, Svetlana Tychina, Anastasia Yaromenko

Andrei Arseniev, Alexei Atamanov, Rustam Azizov, Yaroslav Baibordin, Alexander Beloborodov, Oleg Demchenko, Yevgeny Deryabin, Alexander Fyodorov, Vyacheslav Gnedchik, Artemy Ibrianov, Oleg Ignatiev, Maxim Izmestiev, Artyom Kellerman, Nail Khairnasov, Nikita Kopunov, Nikita Korneyev, Trofim Malanov, Roman Malyshev, Pavel Mikheyev, Pavel Ostapenko, Yaroslav Pushkov, Yaroslav Ryzhov, Vladislav Shumakov, Nail Yenikeyev

e Mariinsky Ballet & Orchestra’s North American tour management: Ardani Artists Management, Inc. Sergei Danilian, president and CEO

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La Bayadère Ballet in three acts Music by Ludwig Minkus Choreography by Marius Petipa (1877) Revised choreography by Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani (1941) with dances by Konstantin Sergeyev and Nikolai Zubkovsky Libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov Set design by Mikhail Shishliannikov aer Adolf Kvapp, Konstantin Ivanov, Pyotr Lambin, and Orest Allegri Costumes by Yevgeny Ponomarev Lighting design by Mikhail Shishliannikov

For full casting, please see pp. 27–30b.

Premiere: January 23, 1877, Bolshoi eatre, St. Petersburg Premiere of Ponomarev and Chabukiani’s version: February 10, 1941, Kirov eatre of Opera and Ballet (Mariinsky), Leningrad Running time: two hours, 55 minutes ere will be two 20-minute intermissions.

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Act I; Scene 1 reminds the Rajah of the vengeance of the gods Led by Solor, a group of young warriors is if their servant should be killed at the temple. hunting a tiger. Breaking away from them, Solor Gamzatti has overheard the conversation. persuades the fakir Magdaveya to arrange a ren - She summons a slave girl to bring Nikia to her. dezvous for him with the bayadère Nikia, one When she appears, Gamzatti tells her of the ap - of the dancers who serves the temple’s sacred proaching wedding, showing a portrait of Solor flame within. e High Brahmin comes out of as the man she is to marry. Nikia is horror- the temple leading a solemn procession, which struck and protests that Solor has in fact sworn is a sign for the ritual of fire to begin. Fakirs and eternal fidelity to her alone. e Rajah’s daugh - bayadères perform ritual dances and then Nikia, ter haughtily demands that she should relin - the fairest of all the bayadères, appears. quish him, but the bayadère would prefer death. Although he has taken vows of celibacy and She pulls out a dagger to strike Gamzatti, but a is leader of the temple’s priesthood, the High slave girl intervenes. Brahmin confesses to Nikia that he loves her, and he promises her wealth and power if she Act II will be his. Nikia rejects his love. Night falls and In the Garden of the Rajah’s Palace, magnificent Solor and Nikia meet secretly while Magdaveya celebrations for the wedding of Solor and Gam - keeps watch, though this does not prevent the zatti are underway and a succession of dances High Brahmin from eavesdropping on their provides entertainment for all the guests. Nikia assignation. Solor asks Nikia to flee with him. in her turn is ordered to dance. A slave girl She consents, but first demands his vow of eter - brings in a basket of flowers which Dugmanta nal fidelity. declares to be a gi to Nikia. Nikia receives it but a poisonous snake hidden in the basket slips Act I; Scene 2 out and bites her. e High Brahmin comes for - e Rajah tells his daughter, Gamzatti, that she ward to oﬀer her an antidote if only she will love will meet and marry the man to whom she was him; she refuses him yet again. Nikia dies with betrothed when still a child. e Rajah intro - Solor kneeling at her side. duces Solor to his daughter. Solor is enraptured by Gamzatti’s beauty but is thrown into confu - Act III; Scene 1 sion as he remembers Nikia and the vows he Solor is distraught and tormented by remorse. has just made to her. Magdaveya attempts without success to divert e time for the marriage to be consecrated him from his grief, and so he calls for a snake is close and Nikia is requested to dance in the charmer. While the man plays, Solor falls asleep holy rites. to the sound of the flute. e High Brahmin enters and tells the Rajah of the love vows he has overheard between Nikia Act III; Scene 2 and Solor. e Rajah is incensed, but his deci - Solor dreams he is in the Kingdom of Shades and, sion remains unchanged: Solor will marry his as he watches, ghosts of those long-dead appear daughter and the bayadère will die. e High before him. Among them he sees his beloved Brahmin did not expect such an outcome and Nikia and she beckons to him to follow her…

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La Bayadère is one of the most popular ballets the production was molded by the brilliant flair in the classical legacy. It is a story of love told of the choreographer, who knew how to blend through demure dance duets and pantomime together the necessary proportions of the grand dialogues, large-scale corps de ballet ensembles, divertissement of a palace celebration and the and the striking dances of the soloists. A color - piercing emotion of the abandoned heroine’s ful and vast canvas, woven together using tragic monologue, the tense emotionality of the highly complex choreographic language, La pantomime depiction of worldly events, and the Bayadère is a test of professionalism, the sparkle aloofness of classical dance in the Kingdom of of the ballerina and the male principal, and the Shades. With the passing of time this structure acting abilities of the performers. Marius Petipa was altered. In the 20th century, La Bayadère created this production in 1877 for a gala per - “lost weight” by dropping an entire act—the formance of the virtuoso ballerina Yekaterina rationalism of the Soviet view of the world Vazem in an attempt to showcase the talent of rejected the use of simple-hearted props to his favorite ballerina as fully as possible and in depict retribution for breaking an oath, and a worthy setting. Petipa laid out his dance poem along with the final destruction of the palace, based on a plot about the love between a noble the ballet also lost its dramatic and dance Indian warrior and a temple dancer. e exotic dénouement. e realities of 19th-century flavor was to be a keystone of the spectacle, theater that remained in the ballet—plush tigers while the melodramatic story of a love and elephants on wheels—look touchingly deceived—typical for the theater in the middle amusing today, but their modest specific details of the 19th century—was simple in terms of set oﬀ the timeless harmony of the act of the its literary expo sition; through its choreo - Shades, Petipa’s bewitching masterpiece in graphic revelations, Peti pa filled it with depth, which his genius was, as never before, close to nuances, and generalizations. e structure of perfection. —Olga Makarova

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e Mariinsky Ballet is closely linked with the Soloviev. e present-day repertoire of the entire history of the development of Russian Mariinsky Ballet includes, along with Petipa’s choreographic art, which began more than two legacy— Swan Lake, Raymonda, Le Corsaire, and a half centuries ago. An important role in La Bayadère, and e Sleeping Beauty —ballets the establishment and evolution of Russian staged by Michel Fokine, George Balanchine, ballet was played by foreign dance masters. e Frederic Ashton, William Forsythe, Alexei history of St. Petersburg ballet in the 19th cen - Ratmansky, Angelin Preljocaj, and Wayne Mc - tury was associated with the activities of Charles Gregor. Didelot, Jules Perrot, and Arthur Saint-Léon. In 1869, the position of principal ballet master e Mariinsky Orchestra is one of the oldest was entrusted to Marius Petipa, who markedly musical ensembles in Russia. It can trace its raised the professional standards of the com - history back to the early 18th century and the pany. e peak accomplishments of this famous development of the Court Instrumental Chapel. choreographer were ballets staged in the period In the 19th century, an extremely important of his collaboration with the composers Pyotr role in the emergence of the Mariinsky Orches - Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Alexander Glazunov— tra was played by Eduard Nápravník, who di - e Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and Ray monda . rected it for over half a century. e excellence At the turn of the 19th century, the Mariinsky of the orchestra was recognized on numerous Ballet produced such great dancers as Mathilde occasions by the world-class musicians who Kschessinska, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Anna conducted it, among them Berlioz, Wagner, Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spesivtseva, von Bülow , Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Nikisch, and and Vaslav Nijinsky. Many of them brought Rachmaninoﬀ. During Soviet times, the en - glory to Russian ballet during the legendary semble’s illustrious traditions were continued Saisons russes in Paris, which saw the pioneering by conductors including Vladimir Dranish ni- works of Michel Fokine presented in Europe. kov, Ariy Pazovsky, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Kon - In the 1920s, when Fyodor Lopukhov, a stantin Simeonov, and Yuri Temirkanov. daring innovator and a brilliant connoisseur of e orchestra has had the honor of being the past, became head of the company, its the first to perform many operas and ballets by repertoire was enriched with new productions, Tchaikovsky; operas by Glinka, Mussorgsky, in particular ballets dealing with contemporary and Rimsky-Korsakov; and ballets by Shosta - life. Galina Ulanova, Alexei Yermolayev, Marina kovich, Khachaturian, and Asafiev. Semenova, and Vakhtang Chabukiani all Since 1988, the orchestra has been directed danced at the Mariinsky eatre during that by Valery Gergiev, a musician of the highest period. Ballet in the 1930s was largely influ - order and an outstanding figure in the music enced by dramatic theater, and this was reflected world. Maestro Gergiev’s arrival at the helm in such productions as Rostislav Zakharov’s e ushered in a new era of rapid expansion of the Fountain of Bakhchisarai and Leonid Lavrov- orchestra’s repertoire, which today includes the sky’s Romeo and Juliet . From the 1950s through symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, Prokofiev, the 1970s, ballets by Leonid Yakobson, Yuri and Shostakovich; requiems by Mozart, Ber- Grigorovich, and Igor Belsky revived the tradi - lioz, Verdi, Brahms, and Tishchenko; and var - tions of symphonic dances. e success of these ious works by composers including Stravinsky, productions obviously would have been impos- Messiaen, Dutilleux, Henze, Shchedrin, Gubai- sible without superb performers. During that dulina, Kancheli, and Karetnikov. e orches - period, the company’s dancers included Irina tra performs programs of symphonic music Kolpakova, Natalia Makarova, Alla Osipenko, at prestigious concert venues throughout the Irina Gensler, Alla Sizova, Rudolf Nureyev, world. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Valery Panov, and Yuri

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Alexei Repnikov (conduc - Alexei Repnikov conceived the idea of estab - tor ). Aer graduating from lishing the Grand Brass Ensemble and founded the Specialized Secondary the Brass Evenings at the Mariinsky interna - School of Music of the tional festival, first held at the Mariinsky ea - St. Petersburg Conserva - tre Concert Hall in March 2008. As leader of tory in 1991 (the trombone the Grand Brass Ensemble, he has taken part class of Georgy Straut man), in the Summer Festival in Mikkeli (Fin land, Repnikov continued his 2009) and toured to Great Britain, Japan, and studies at the St. Petersburg State Rimsky- Switzerland. Korsakov Conser va tory (trombone class of sen - ior lecturer Boris Vinogradov and Prof. Viktor Yuri Fateev (acting director Sumerkin). In 2009, he participated in a train - of the Mariinsky Ballet, ing course specializing in symphonic conduct - Honored Artist of Russia ) ing (class of Alexander Polishchuk). was born in St. Petersburg, In autumn 1991, Repnikov joined the Mari - graduated from the Vaga - insky eatre as a stage band musician, entering nova Choreography School the symphony orchestra in 1996 (trombone in 1982, and joined the section). He made his debut with the Mariinsky Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet eatre Symphony Orchestra with the ballets Company the same year. His repertoire in - Le Sacre du printemps and e Magic Nut cluded the ballets Giselle, La Bayadère, Paquita, (2007). Since then he has regularly conducted Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, e Creation of ballet productions. Repnikov’s repertoire in - the World, Le Carnaval, La fille mal gardée, e cludes the ballets Anna Karenina, Apollo, Knight in the Tiger’s Skin, and Coppélia . In 1996, Ballet No. 2, La Bayadère, Prodigal Son, Le Sacre he became a coach with the Mariinsky Ballet, du printemps, Le Spectre de la rose, e Magic and in this post he worked on Mariinsky eatre Nut, Don Quixote, Jewels, e Firebird, Giselle, premiere performances of ballets by George Cinderella, Infra, Carmen-Suite, Carna val, Balanchine, Roland Petit, John Neumeier, Alexei Le Corsaire, Swan Lake, Leningrad Symphony, Ratman sky, William Forsythe, Christopher Pétrouchka, Polovtsian Dances, Raymonda, Wheeldon, and José Antonio. He has been a Romeo and Juliet, Sylvia, La Sylphide, Symphony guest coach with the Royal Ballet in London in C, e Sleeping Beauty, Tarantella, eme and and Russia’s Bolshoi eatre and given master Variations, e Dying Swan, Piano Concerto classes for the ballet company of the Paris No. 2, Schéhérazade, Chopiniana, Scotch Sym- Opera, as well as teaching with the Swe dish phony, e Nutcracker, Études, Concerto DSCH, Royal Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and “Paquita” Grand Pas, Inside the Lines, and Danish Royal Ballet, where he staged a Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux . production of highlights from the ballet Le As a conductor, Repnikov has toured with Corsaire . Fateev was involved in the Kings of the Mariinsky Ballet to Covent Garden (Great Dance project in Russia and the United States, Britain), the Festspielhaus (Germany), and as well as Stiefel and Stars in the US, where he the Metropolitan Opera and Kennedy Center, staged highlights from classical ballets. Since as well as to Tokyo, Bang kok, Singa pore, Bar - 2008, he has been the acting director of the celona, and Hong Kong. Mariinsky Ballet.

 PLAYBILL Maria Khoreva Ekaterina Kondaurova Olesya Novikova

Nadezhda Batoeva Yekaterina Chebykina Anastasia Nuikina

Andrei Yermakov Kimin Kim Vladimir Shklyarov

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Maria Khoreva (Nikia ) Rubies, Dia monds), La Valse, and A Midsum - Born in St. Petersburg. Gra duated from the mer Night’s Dream (Titania, Hippolyta); Mar - Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Prof. Lyud - guerite and Armand (Marguerite); Le Jeune mila Kovaleva) and joined the Mariinsky Ballet homme et la mort (Girl); Benjamin Mille pied’s in 2018. ballets Without and La nuit s’achève ; William Repertoire includes: La Bayadère (Nikia); Forsythe’s ballets Steptext, In the Middle, Some - Swan Lake (Pas de trois); Le Corsaire (Medora, what Ele vated, and Approximate Sonata ; e Trio of Odalisques); Don Quixote (e Queen Nutcracker (Queen of the Snow flakes, Oriental of the Dryads); Jewels (Diamonds), Apollo Dance); Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets Cinderella (Terp sichore), Serenade, A Midsummer Night’s (Step mother), e Little Hump backed Horse Dream (Pas de deux from Act II); e Nut - (Mare, Sea Princess), Anna Karenina (title role), cracker (Masha); Paquita (Paquita). and Concerto DSCH . Kondaurova has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet to Great Britain, Germany, the Nether - Ekaterina Kondaurova ( Nikia ) lands, Norway, China, and the United States. • Recipient of the 2006 Benois de la Danse prize • Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St. Peters - Olesya Novikova (Nikia ) burg’s most prestigious theater prize, • Prize winner at the 2002 International in the category Best Female Role in Vaganova-Prix Ballet Dancers Ballet, in 2008 for the role of Alma in Competition (St. Petersburg) the ballet Glass Heart ; in 2010, for the role of Anna Karenina in the ballet of Born in Leningrad. Gradu ated from the Vaga - the same name; and in 2018, for her role nova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2002 (class in the ballet e Four Seasons. of Marina Vasilieva, Honored Artist of Russia). • Recipient of the Golden Mask, Russia’s Joined the Mariinsky Ballet upon graduation. most prestigious theater prize, for Best Repertoire includes: La Sylphide (the Sylph); Female Role in Ballet (title role in Anna Giselle (Nikia, Giselle); Le Corsaire (Gulnare); Karenina , choreography by Alexei La Bayadère (Gamzatti); e Sleeping Beauty Ratmansky, 2011). (Aurora, Generosity Fairy, Gold Fairy, Silver • Recipient of Ballet magazine’s Spirit of Fairy); Swan Lake (Odette-Odile, Pas de trois, Dance award in the “Star” category (2011) Cygnets); Raymonda (Raymonda, Grand pas, Variation); Le Réveil de Flore (Flore); Don Born in Moscow. Graduated from the Vaga - Quixote (Kitri, Flower Girl, Variation in Act IV); nova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2001. Joined Chopiniana (Nocturne, Eleventh Waltz); e the Mariinsky Ballet in 2001. Fountain of Bakhchisa rai (Maria); e Nut - Repertoire includes: Giselle (Myrtha, Zulma); cracker (Masha); Romeo and Juliet (Juliet); Le Corsaire (Medora); La Bayadère (Nikia, Études ; Marguerite and Armand (Mar guerite); Gamzatti); e Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy); Manon (Cour tesan); George Balan chine’s bal - Swan Lake (Odette-Odile); Raymonda (Ray - lets Apollo (Polyhymnia), Symphony in C (ird monda, Henrietta, Grand pas); “Paquita” Grand Move ment), e Four Tempera ments, Jewels Pas (Variation); Don Quixote (Queen of the (Rubies, Emeralds, Diamonds), Piano Concerto Dryads, Street Dancer); Michel Fokine’s ballets No. 2 (Ballet Imperial) , eme and Varia tions, e F ire bird (Firebird), Schéhérazade (Zobeide), and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux ; e Legend of and e Dying Swan ; George Balanchine’s Love (Shyrin); Carmen-Suite (Carmen); Hans ballets Prodi gal Son (the Siren), Serenade, van Manen’s ballets Adagio Hammerklavier, Symphony in C (Second Movement), e Four 5 Tan gos , e Nutcracker (Masha); Alexei Rat - Temperaments (Choleric), Jewels (Emeralds, man sky’s ballets Middle Duet and Anna Karen -

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ina (title role); William Forsythe’s ballets e Ekaterina Chebykina ( Gamzatti ) Vertiginous rill of Exactitude and In the • Diploma recipient at the International Middle, Somewhat Elevated; and Ondine (On - Ballet Dancers and Choreographers dine, Naiads). Competition (Moscow, 2013 and 2017) Novikova created the female role in Alexei • Prize winner at the Seventh International Miroshnichenko’s Du Côté de chez “Swann,” Serge Lifar Competition (Gold Medal; premiered at the sixth International Mariinsky Donetsk, 2011) Ballet Festi val (St. Petersburg, 2006). • Prize winner at the ird International In 2011, at the Teatro alla Scala, she appeared Yuri Grigorovich Competition World in the lead role in the premiere performance of Youth Ballet (Bronze Medal; Sochi, 2010) the ballet Raymonda (production by Sergei • Diploma recipient and recipient of the Vikharev). Novikova has toured with the Mari - Special Prize for Artistic Growth at the insky Ballet to Great Britain, Germany and ird International Ballet Competition China. (Seoul, 2010)

Born in Kiev. Graduated from the Kiev School Nadezhda Batoeva ( Gamzatti ) of Dance in 2011. As a student, she received • Recipient of the 2008 Hope of Russia grants from the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) prize of Ukraine and the President of Ukraine (2009 – 11). From 2011 –13, she was a soloist with the Born in Neryungri. Graduated from the Vaga - National Shevchenko Opera of Ukraine. nova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2009. Joined Repertoire includes: La Sylphide (Sylphs); the Mariinsky Ballet the same year. Giselle (Myrtha); Swan Lake (Odette-Odile, Repertoire includes: La Sylphide (Eﬃe, Swans); La Bayadère (Nikia, Gamzatti, Trio of Sylphs); Giselle (Giselle, Classical Duet); Swan Shades); e Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy); Lake (Odette-Odil е, Friends of the Prince, Two Raymonda (Clémence); Le Corsaire (Medora); Swans); La Bayadère (Gamzatti, Manu, Vari - Don Quixote (Queen of the Dryads, Street a tion in Grand Pas, Indian Dance, Trio of Dancer); Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana Shades, Bayadères); e Sleeping Beauty (Prin - (Prelude), e Swan, e Firebird (e Fire - cess Aurora, the White Cat); e Sleeping Beauty bird), e Nutcracker (Elegant Ladies, Waltz (Princess Aurora, Diamond Fairy, Gold Fairy, of the Snowflakes, Waltz of the Roses, Queen of Courage Fairy, Princess Florine); Raymonda the Snowflakes); e Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Henrietta, Variation); “Paquita” Grand Pas (Zarema); Le Jeune homme et la mort ; Yuri (Variation); Don Quixote (Kitri, Amour, Flower- Grigorovich’s ballets e Stone Flower (e Sellers, Variation); Le Corsaire (Gulnare); Mis tress of the Copper Mountain), e Legend Michel Fokine’s ballets Schéhérazade (Zobeide), of Love (Mekhmeneh-Bahnu, Dance of the Le Carnaval (Columbine), Chopiniana (Ele - Court Dancers); Leningrad Symphony (Girl); venth Waltz), and Pétrouchka (Dancers); e Carmen Suite (Fate); George Balanchine’s Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Polish Noblewomen, bal lets Jewels (Rubies, Diamonds), Serenade, Bell Dance); e Nutcracker (Masha, Doll, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolita), Spanish Dance); Romeo and Juliet (Juliet, Juliet’s Symphony in C (III. Allegro vivace), Sylvia Companion, Servant at the Inn); Spartacus (Diana, Ceres); Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets (Etruscans), and Shurale (Fiery Witch); George Cinderella (Khudyshka, Dance Teacher, Female Balanchine’s ballets Jewels (Emeralds, Rubies), Dance), Anna Karenina (Princess Betsy, Dolly). Apollo (Polyhymnia), Symphony in C (I. Allegro vivo, III. Allegro vivace), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pas de deux from Act II), Sylvia (Sylvia).

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Anastasia Nuikina ( Gamzatti ) He has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet to Born in Samara. Graduated from the Vaganova Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Ballet Academy. Joined the Mari insky Ballet Israel, Japan, China, ailand, Taiwan, and the in 2018. United States. Repertoire includes: La Sylphide (Sylphs); Giselle (Monna); e Sleeping Beauty (Diamond Fairy, Sapphire Fairy); Le Réveil de Flore Kimin Kim (Solor ) (Nymphs); Swan Lake (e Prince’s Friends, • Prize winner at international ballet Brides, Two Swans); Le Corsaire (Trio of Oda - competitions in Rome (1st prize, 2008), lisques); Don Quixote (Queen of the Dryads); Moscow (2nd prize, 2009), Seoul Jewels (Diamantes), Apollo (Polyhymnia), (1st prize, 2009), Jackson (2nd prize, Sym phony in C (I. Allegro vivo), Serenade, A 2010), and Varna (1st prize, 2010) Mid summer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta); e • Grand Prix at the Arabesque interna - Foun tain of Bakhchisarai (Maria); e Nut - tional ballet competition (Perm, 2012) cracker (Masha, Waltz of the Flowers, e Nut - • Grand Prix at the Youth America cracker’s Sisters); Sylvia (Terpsichore); e Little Grand Prix international competition Humpbacked Horse (Nurses); Paquita (Paquita’s (New York, 2012) Friends); At the Wrong Time . • Winner (together with Renata Shakirova) of Rossiya-Kultura television’s Grand Ballet project (2016) Andrei Yermakov (Solor ) • Recipient of the Benois de la Danse • Recipient of the 2013 Spirit of Dance prize (2016) prize in the “Rising Star” category (Ballet magazine) Born in Seoul. Graduated from the Korea National University of Arts. From 2012, he was Born in Leningrad. Gradu ated from the Vaga - a soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet and since nova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2005. Joined 2015, he has been a principal dancer. the Mariinsky Ballet in 2005. Principal dancer Repertoire includes: Giselle (Count Albrecht, since 2019. Classical Duet); La Bayadère (Solor, Golden Repertoire includes: Giselle (Count Albrecht), Idol); e Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré); Swan Le Corsaire (Conrad, Ali); La Bayadère (Solor); Lake (Prince Siegfried, e Prince’s Friends); Swan Lake (von Rothbart); Raymonda (Jean de Don Quixote (Basilio); “Diane and Actéon Pas Brienne); Don Quixote (Basilio); Michel Fokine’s de Deux” from the ballet La Esmeralda (Actéon); ballets e Firebird (Ivan Tsarevich), Schéhéra - Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, Mercutio); George zade (Zobeide’s Slave), e Fountain of Bakhchi - Balanchine’s ballets Jewels (Rubies), Symphony sarai (Vaslav); Leonid Yakobson’s Shurale (Ali- in C (III. Allegro vivace), A Midsummer Night’s Batyr) and Spartacus (Spartacus); Romeo and Dream (Pas de deux from Act II), and Tchaikov - Juliet (Romeo); Yuri Grigorovich’s ballets e sky Pas de Deux; e Nutcracker (Nutcracker Legend of Love (Ferkhad) and e Stone Flower Prince); Le Corsaire (Ali); Michel Fokine’s bal - (Danila); Carmen Suite (José, Torero); Lenin - lets Le Spectre de la rose (Ghost of the Rose) and grad Symphony (Youth); George Balanchine’s Schéhérazade (Slave), Études; Le Jeune homme Serenade, Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds), La et la mort; Sylvia (Aminta); e Legend of Love Valse, Symphony in C (II. Adagio) and A Mid - (Ferkhad); Push Comes to Shove; e Vertigi - sum mer Night’s Dream (Lysander, Titania’s nous rill of Exactitude; Concerto DSCH; Cin - Cava lier), Sylvia (Orion), Marguerite and derella (Prince). Armand (Armand); In the Night (third move - ment); Paquita (Andrés); Yaroslavna. e Eclipse (Prince Igor).

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Vladimir Shklyarov (Solor ) Nutcracker Prince); Alexei Ratmansky’s ballets • Prize winner at the 11th International Cinderella (the Prince), e Little Humpbacked Ballet and Choreography Competition Horse (Ivan the Fool), and Anna Karenina in the solo category (Moscow, 2009, (Count Vronsky). 1st prize) • Prize winner at the Vaganova-Prix International Competition (St. Peters - Administration and Staff burg, 2002) Yury Fateev, acting director of the • Recipient of the Soul of Dance – 2008 Mariinsky Ballet prize, instituted by Ballet magazine, in Sergei Proskuriakov, assistant to ballet director the “Rising Star” category Margarita Kullik, Lyubov Kunakova, Vanda • Recipient of the annual Léonide Massine Lubkovskaya, Elvira Tarasova, Igor Petrov, International Prize for the Art of Dance coaches and repetiteurs (Positano, Italy, 2008) Elena Chmil-Bobovnikova, ballet teacher • Recipient of the Zegna—Mariinsky New Sergei Salikov and Tatyana Bazhitova, stage Talent Awards grant (London, 2008) managers and pianists • Recipient of the DANCE OPEN interna - Veronica Maximenkova and Igor Maximov, tional ballet prize in the “Mr. Vituoso” masseurs category (2014) Technical Staff Born in Leningrad. Graduated from the Vaga - Vasily Chuprakov, tour technical director nova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2003. Joined Vitaly Obukhov, head of carpentry department the Mariinsky Ballet the same year. Principal Yefim Ganzha, master carpenter dancer since 2011. Maxim Vybornov, Pavel Miroshnichenko, and Repertoire includes: La Sylphide (James, Dmitry Anashkin, carpenters Youths); Giselle (Count Albrecht, Classical Igor Karmanov, lighting designer Duet); Le Corsaire (Ali, Lankedem); La Baya- Dmitry Kabanov, electrician dère (Solor, Golden Idol); e Sleeping Beauty Denis Shaydulov, technologist (Prince Désiré, Prince Charmant, Grooms); Semion Asaturian, head of props department Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried, Pas de trois, Jester, Anna Podvolotskaya, props Neapolitan Dance); Raymonda (Jean de Brienne, Nadezhda Shepovalova and Olga Kostenets - Grand pas); “Paquita” Grand pas ; Don Quixote kaya, heads of make-up department (Basilio); Le Réveil de Flore (Zéphyr); e Foun - Tatiana Tsarik and Yana Borisevich, make-up tain of Bakhchisarai (Vaslav, Polish Youths); e Nadezhda Vasilieva and Yulia Beliaeva, heads Young Lady and the Hooligan (Hooligan); e of wardrobe department Nutcracker (Nutcracker Prince); Romeo and Natalia Chubachina, Favzia Alieva, and Juliet (Romeo); Leningrad Symphony (Youth); Ekaterina Zimina, wardrobe e Legend of Love (Ferkhad, Friends of Maksim Terekhin, sound engineer Ferk had); Michel Fokine’s ballets Lе Carnaval Aleksey Blinov, video engineer (Har le quin), Le Spectre de la rose (Ghost of the Rose), Schéhérazade (Zobeide’s Slave), and Cho - Staff for Ardani Artists pin iana (the Youth); George Balanchine’s bal - Sergei Danilian, president lets Jewels (Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds), Piano Gaia Danilian, vice president Concerto No. 2 (Ballet Imperial), Symphony in Michael Vool, production and stage manager C (III. Allegro vivace), eme and Variations, Slava Kondratiev, production associate Scotch Symphony, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Andrey Goniaev, tour manager Prodigal Son (the Prodigal), Apollo (Apollo); Tigran Danilian, merchandising manager Le Jeune Homme et la mort (Young Man); In the Evgenia Brileva, production interpreter Night; Études (Soloist); e Nutcracker (the Lori Harrison, MOSCO, travel agents

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First Violin Cello Horn Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya Yekaterina Larina Igor Prokofiev Elena Berdnikova Alexander Ponomarenko Dmitry Lezhnin Alexander Shirokov Kirill Yevtushenko Nikita Ioannisian Sergei Toporenko Sarkis Ginosian Dmitry Chepkov Irina Sukhorukova Yulia Saakian Boris Vasiliev Anton Rutkovsky Trumpet Sergei Toporenko Sergei Kryuchkov Nina Moskvina Double Bass Gennady Nikonov Liana Zingarenko Alexander Shilo Yuri Fokin Vera Kuzmina Demian Gorodnichin Alexei Popov Vitaly Malkov Yevgeny Mamontov Viktor Zaitsev Yuri Gladkov Trombone Ilya Belyaev Second Violin Flute Mikhail Vinnitsky Andrei Tyan Diana Cherezova Alexander Kovalchuk Yerdan Yergaliev Vasily Viland Zhanna Abdulaeva Aglaya Shuplyakova Tuba Marcel Bejenaru Boris Dzhioev Sergei Gavrikov Oboe Lyubov Gavrikova Sergei Bliznetsov Percussion Mikhail Zagorodnyuk Pavel Terentiev Alexander Petrov Maria Rusinova Roman Zvorykin Valery Kniga Viktoria Afonkina Vladislav Ivanov Clarinet Vladimir Maslov Viola Ivan Tersky Daniil Ivanov Irina Ivanova Yevgeny Kultygin Svetlana Kozlova Vasily Zhuchenko Harp Dmitry Veselov Artemy Izmailov Angelina Vainer Bassoon Yelizaveta Vasileshnikova Arseny Makarov Stagehand Svetlana Sadovaya Alexander Kizilyaev Dmitry Popov Yekaterina Stupnikova Vartan Gnoro Musical instruments provided by LA Percussion

Supernumeraries: Cassidy Crawford, Andrea Masuret, Kelsey Solomon, Rosie Ueng, Skylaer Palacios, Elizabeth Bobrovnikov, Blake Hennessy-York, Yona Brodeur, Mischa Byruck, James Bowes, James McGarry, Richard urston, David Cha

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Wednesday, October 30, 8pm Nikia , a bayadère Ekaterina Kondaurova Solor, a rich warrior Andrei Yermakov e Rajah Dugmanta Andrei Yakovlev Gamzatti, his daughter Yekaterina Chebykina e High Brahmin Soslan Kulaev Toloragve, a warrior Vasily Shcherbakov e Slave Konstantin Zverev Magedaveya, a fakir Maxim Izmestiev Aya, a slave girl Lira Khuslamova

Dances

D’Jampe Yana Selina Alexandra Khiteeva Dance of the bayadères (Act II) Svetlana Tychina Svetlana Ivanova Anastasia Mikheikina Laura Fernandez Dance of the Golden Idol David Zaleyev Manu Tamara Gimadieva Indian dance Anastasia Petushkova Roman Malyshev Drum Player Oleg Demchenko Grand pas Classique (Act II) Maria Bulanova Shamala Guseinova Yuliana Chereshkevich Maria Iliushkina Alexander Beloborodov Roman Belyakov

e Kingdom of Shades (Act III) Ekaterina Kondaurova Andrei Yermakov Renata Shakirova Maria Shirinkina May Nagahisa

Orchestra Solos Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya, violin Alexander Ponomarenko, cello Aglaya Shuplyakova, flute Artemy Izmailov, harp

Local Children Cameron Heanue Georgia Davidson Lucy McNeill Cole

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ursday, October 31, 8pm Nikia , a bayadère Maria Khoreva Solor, a rich warrior Vladimir Shklyarov e Rajah Dugmanta Andrei Yakovlev Gamzatti, his daughter Anastasia Nuikina e High Brahmin Soslan Kulaev Toloragve, a warrior Vasily Shcherbakov e Slave Roman Belyakov Magedaveya, a fakir Maxim Izmestiev Aya, a slave girl Lira Khuslamova

Dances

D’Jampe Maria Iliushkina Xenia Fateyeva Dance of the bayadères (Act II) Svetlana Tychina Svetlana Ivanova Anastasia Mikheikina Laura Fernandez Dance of the Golden Idol Philipp Stepin Manu Anastasia Asaben Indian dance Alina Krasovskaya Nail Yenikeyev Drum Player Andrei Arseniev Grand pas Classique (Act II) Maria Bulanova Shamala Guseinova Yuliana Chereshkevich Maria Iliushkina Alexander Beloborodov Roman Belyakov

e Kingdom of Shades (Act III) Maria Khoreva Vladimir Shklyarov Vlada Borodulina Yana Selina Anastasia Lukina

Orchestra Solos Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya, violin Alexander Ponomarenko, cello Aglaya Shuplyakova, flute Artemy Izmailov, harp

Local Children Cameron Heanue Georgia Davidson Lucy McNeill Cole

Friday, November 1, 8pm Nikia , a bayadère Olesya Novikova Solor, a rich warrior Kimin Kim e Rajah Dugmanta Andrei Yakovlev Gamzatti, his daughter Nadezhda Batoeva e High Brahmin Soslan Kulaev Toloragve, a warrior Vasily Shcherbakov e Slave Konstantin Zverev Magedaveya, a fakir Maxim Izmestiev Aya, a slave girl Lira Khuslamova

Dances

e Kingdom of Shades (Act III) Olesya Novikova Kimin Kim Renata Shakirova Maria Shirinkina May Nagahisa

Orchestra Solos Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya, violin Alexander Ponomarenko, cello Aglaya Shuplyakova, flute Artemy Izmailov, harp

Local Children Cameron Heanue Georgia Davidson Lucy McNeill Cole

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Saturday, November 2, 1pm Nikia , a bayadère Ekaterina Kondaurova Solor, a rich warrior Andrei Yermakov e Rajah Dugmanta Andrei Yakovlev Gamzatti, his daughter Yekaterina Chebykina e High Brahmin Soslan Kulaev Toloragve, a warrior Vasily Shcherbakov e Slave Roman Belyakov Magedaveya, a fakir Maxim Izmestiev Aya, a slave girl Lira Khuslamova

Dances

e Kingdom of Shades (Act III) Ekaterina Kondaurova Andrei Yermakov Vlada Borodulina Yana Selina Anastasia Lukina

Orchestra Solos Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya, violin Alexander Ponomarenko, cello Aglaya Shuplyakova, flute Artemy Izmailov, harp

Local Children Cameron Heanue Georgia Davidson Lucy McNeill Cole

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CAST

Saturday, November 1, 8pm Nikia , a bayadère Maria Khoreva Solor, a rich warrior Vladimir Shklyarov e Rajah Dugmanta Andrei Yakovlev Gamzatti, his daughter Anastasia Nuikina e High Brahmin Soslan Kulaev Toloragve, a warrior Vasily Shcherbakov e Slave Konstantin Zverev Magedaveya, a fakir Maxim Izmestiev Aya, a slave girl Lira Khuslamova

Dances

e Kingdom of Shades (Act III) Maria Khoreva Vladimir Shklyarov Renata Shakirova Maria Shirinkina May Nagahisa

Orchestra Solos Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya, violin Alexander Ponomarenko, cello Aglaya Shuplyakova, flute Artemy Izmailov, harp

Local Children Cameron Heanue Georgia Davidson Lucy McNeill Cole

Sunday, November 2, 3pm Nikia , a bayadère Olesya Novikova Solor, a rich warrior Kimin Kim e Rajah Dugmanta Andrei Yakovlev Gamzatti, his daughter Nadezhda Batoeva e High Brahmin Soslan Kulaev Toloragve, a warrior Vasily Shcherbakov e Slave Roman Belyakov Magedaveya, a fakir Maxim Izmestiev Aya, a slave girl Lira Khuslamova

Dances

e Kingdom of Shades (Act III) Olesya Novikova Kimin Kim Vlada Borodulina Yana Selina Anastasia Lukina

Orchestra Solos Lyudmila Tchaikovskaya, violin Alexander Ponomarenko, cello Aglaya Shuplyakova, flute Artemy Izmailov, harp

Local Children Cameron Heanue Georgia Davidson Lucy McNeill Cole

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