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Thank you for the reports, Giannina and Mrs. Stahlbaum. Who was Osipova's partner in Giselle?

Casting has been revised for the London tour -- the revised casts I've put in bold. Romeo and Juliet: http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=9642 August 3 Juliet : Somova Romeo : Shklyarov August 4 Juliet : Osmolkina Romeo : Ivanchenko August 5 Juliette: Tereshkina Romeo: Matvienko Auguset 6 Juliet: Obraztsova Romeo: Kolb Swan Lake http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=9651 August 7 Odette/Odile: Lopatkina Siegfried: Korsuntsev August 8 (matinee) Odette/Odile: Kondaurova Siegfried: Kolb August 8 (evening) Odette/Odile: Tereshkina Siegfried: Ivanchencko August 10 Odette/Odile: Somova Siegfried: Matvienko August 11 Odette/Odile: Osmolkina Siegfried Vladimir: Shklyarov Homage to Balanchine http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=9667 August 12 Serenade Kondaurova Ivanchenko Osmolkina Vasnetsova Firsov Rubies Somova Shklyarov Kondaurova Symphony in C Tereshkina Matvienko Lopatkina Korsuntsev Gonchar Filip Stepin Obraztsova Timofeyev August 13 Serenade Tereshkina Korsuntsev Golub Chereshkevitch Firsov Rubies Golub Matvienko TBC Symphony in C Somova Korsakov has been removed – no replacement yet Zuzin Kondaurova Ivanchenko Osmolkina Shklyarov Obraztsova has been removed – no replacement yet TBC Sleeping Beauty http://www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=9660 August 14 Princess Aurora: Obraztsova Prince Desiré: Kolb Lilac Fairy: Kondaurova August 15 (matinee) Princess Aurora: Tereshkina Prince Desiré: Vladimir Shklyarov Lilac Fairy: Vasnetsova August 15 (evening) Princess Aurora: Somova Prince Desiré: Sarafanov Lilac Fairy: Kondaurova

Me too. It would be nice to see and/or hear from David and Veronika.

Very nice site... Thanks for the heads up, Batsuchan!

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev will dance Giselle at the Mikhailovsky Theatre on July 1st, 2009. I believe this will be Vasiliev's debut as Albrecht. http://www.mikhailovsky.ru/en/afisha/shows...7-01&sh=256

Congratulations Shawn!!!!

Thank you for the review, Ceeszi; sounds like it was a good evening.

Sigh. Thank you, Leonid.

Productions of Swan Lake I've seen on TV: Makhalina/Zelensky -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet Bessmertnova/Bogatyrev -- Bolshoi Ballet Fonteyn/Nureyev -- Vienna State Opera Ballet Adventures in Motion Pictures Mezentseva/Zaklinsky -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet Makarova/Dowell -- Royal Ballet Makarova/Nagy -- American Ballet Theatre (Blair's version) Nordquist/Nordström -- Royal Swedish Ballet Murphy/Corella -- American Ballet Theatre (McKenzie's version) Hart/Schaufuss -- London Festival Ballet Fonteyn/Somes Act II -- Royal Ballet Letestu/Martinez -- Paris Opera Ballet (Nureyev's version) Scherzer/Matz -- Staatsballett Berlin Yevteyeva/Markovsky -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet Lopatkina/Korsuntsev -- Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet Zakharova/Bolle -- La Scala Ballet Mikhalchenko/Vasyuchenko -- Bolshoi Ballet Kolesnikova/Akulinin -- St Petersburg Ballet Theatre Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe Of China Nunez/Soares -- Royal Ballet Semionov/Jermakov -- Zurich Ballet Alexandrova/Skvortsov -- Bolshoi Ballet And live: Lorenzo/Hench -- Pennsylvania Ballet (Wheeldon's version) Part/Gomes -- American Ballet Theatre (McKenzie's version)

Thank you for the report, cygneblanc.

Well, for now June 6th will be Viktoria Tereshkina (her debut?) with Yevgeny Ivanchenko. But you never know... http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbi...009/6/6/1_1900/

She also did the Rose Adagio in a gala last year, which is on youtube as well.

And hopefully they will fix this on her bio: "She was promoted to soloist in 1998 and to Principal Dancer in 2009."

Gomes/Kirkland Dowell/Lopatkina Corella/Osipova

Nureyev's Cinderella looked very nice live, if a bit busy. Lighting, sets, and (most of the) costumes were wonderful. The camera angles were good for the most part; I found it a bit distracting when the camera would at times cut back and forth between the main dancing/action and the activity happening in the background or side of the stage. Also, in this performance I missed the sweeping camerawork from the Guillem recording which allowed you to admire the corps' dancing and the principals at the same time during Act II. The DVD image quality was clear and crisp, the colors very veibrant. I enjoyed Letestu's Cinderella very much. Martinez was a handsome, grand, arrogant film star, who seemed to struggle the least with Nureyev's choreography. Both Letestu and Martinez impressed me more here than in Swan Lake. There was a nice rapport between them. Romberg and Pujol were very good as the stepsisters. The standouts in the cast for me were Phavorin, who obviously had a great time as the outrageous stepmother, and Romoli, who made the producer a very personable and interesting character. I agree that the clips did not go as well with the interview segments as they had in the film about Jewels. The surprise of the film for me was learning that the stepmother and stepsisters were the soloists in the film star's search for Cinderella! I had never realized that before and found it a very interesting touch.

The May 17th performance of Giselle with Lopatkina and Ivanchenko will be danced in memory of Ninella Kurgapkina.

Philadelphia, PA area: WHYY Channel 12, New York City Ballet's 'Romeo and Juliet' on Sunday, May 24 at 03:00pm. A New York City Ballet production of "Romeo and Juliet," featuring Peter Martins' choreography set to the classic Sergei Prokofiev score, about the tragic teen lovers (Sterling Hyltin, Robert Fairchild). From the Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater.

Good for her. I'm looking forward to reports of her in On the Dnieper.

Only sixteen more days...

I recently read Charlotte, Julia Barrett’s continuation of Jane Austen's fragment Sanditon, and found it very disappointing. The plot (or lack there of) was all over the place once Barrett picked up the story. She did a great deal of explaining characters’ motives and mental states instead showing them really accomplish anything. The characterizations of both her characters and Austen's were not well drawn; and the romance between Charlotte and her gentleman was a series of short encounters, and even shorter conversations…not much opportunity for the two to get to know each other very well and fall in love. While we’ll never know just where Jane would have gone with this fragment, I have a hard time believing she would have made bootlegging and gambling major plot points in the story. Now I move on to Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit.

There is a beautiful new photo of Veronika at her bio on the ABT website!

A series of photos from Maximova's funeral is at Yahoo news. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Famed-Bolsho...b335b349434b868

Casting of ABT's run of Romeo and Juliet in is now up on the site. Seo/Stearns will dance the ballet for the third time at the July 18th matinee.

No, the performance on the 20th will be Irina Golub with Igor Kolb. http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbi...09/5/20/1_1900/

What a great series! I did not realize how grand the Garnier was. And was that Stéphane Phavorin around 3:15?