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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

I hope ABT will post more videos.

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

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.

The Mariinsky has one more R&J -- on June 6 -- before the sets leave St. Petersburg for the European tour. Cast is yet to be named. Perhaps that will be Ms XXX's "try-out" as Juliet

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/

On the other hand, Lopatkina *did* dance Aurora in the Act III grand pdd for a recent gala in Moscow & possibly elsewhere. It is up on YouTube, somewhere. So we know that she dances a portion of the Aurora role.

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

Veronika's picture and bio is,finally, listed in the Principal dancers section of the ABT website.

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.

Generally I thought that the performance clips complemented the interview segments less well than they had in Reiner Moritz's previous film about the POB's Jewels.

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.

I see by the more complete casting at the ABT site she's 1st cast principal for On the Dnieper.

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?