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A segment on Hallberg's Bolshoi appearance:

Recently I finished Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel (didn't like it as much as I expected), Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives (a difficult but interesting read), and An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government by William C. Davis which focused on Jefferson Davis, the president, and John C. Breckinridge, his Secretary of War. Currently I'm reading Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer. So far it is proving to be a delightful and humorous story.

The Royal Ballet will perform T&V this October.

Congratulations to Mr. Karapetyan and Ms. Zahorian! Yes, indeed. During the Pennsylvania Ballet's run of Romeo and Juliet in 2005, Zachary Hench proposed to Julie Diana during their curtain call.

Congratulations to Osipova and Vasiliev!

*Balanchine's Scotch Symphony, The Four Temperaments *Bournonville's A Folk Tale *Mariinsky Ballet's Shurale *Ratmansky's On the Dnieper

Schedule and cast: http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/festiv.../ballet_fest_x/ Mathieu Ganio is no longer listed for Apollo on April 19th.

David Hallberg will make his debut at the Bolshoi Ballet on April 18th in Giselle. He will partner Natalia Osipova. http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/

But I think that he uses the oboe variation from Act III Pas de Six as Odile's solo, instead of the original one-(TPDD). (Still...orrect me if I'm wrong) You are correct, cubanmiamiboy.

I recently read Geogette Heyer's Cotillion, which simply delightful; I was laughing from beginning to end. Also, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier; I'd never read du Maurier before, and was quickly swept away into the story. I haven't read a lot of "gothic suspense" fiction, but I found the book very enjoyable. Mary was somewhat a different heroine than I'm used to, seemed like a woman ahead of her time. Currently I've just started Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life by Joan Gould. Should be quite fascinating.

There is an article from Russian news agency RIA-Novosti about the Flames of Paris broadcast -- cast will be Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Denis Savin and Nina Kaptsova -- and plans for future transmissions of other ballets. http://www.rian.ru/culture/20100324/216174553.html English translation courtesy of Google: "Flames of Paris Bolshoi Theater will show online in 150 cinemas in Europe 17:18 24/03/2010 MOSCOW, March 24 - RIA Novosti. The Bolshoi ballet "Flames of Paris" in real time will be broadcast on 150 cinema screens in Europe, mainly France, March 31, organizers said Wednesday at a press conference in Moscow. This project is the Year of France in Russia and Russia in France. Among the cities in which it will be possible to become a film watchers Bolshoi Theater - Avignon, Le Havre, Lyon, Nancy, Nice, Paris, Toulon, Toulouse, Bern, Lausanne, and others. Told the musical director of the Bolshoi Theater, the composer Leonid Desyatnikov, today new technologies that are being implemented in life, make it possible to carry out such a wonderful project. He noted that now we live in a very interesting time, since this creates a whole new genre, which still has no name. Deputy General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Anton Getman has promised that this unusual project will be continued in the new season, when the Bolshoi and the company Bel Air Mebia will broadcast the Bolshoi Ballet in 200 cinemas in France. "We already know the dates when it is realized. Opens the draft translation of" Swan Lake "on 26 September, then December 19 is the ballet" The Nutcracker, then January 23 - "Coppelia", March 6 - "Don Quixote" and, finally, March 29 -- ballet "Giselle" and a class-concert, which will be combined into a single view, "- said Getman. According to him, it would be a real live broadcast, where viewers can feel present in the hall of the Bolshoi Theater. "Overestimate the importance of these projects difficult - he said. - This - a real step forward for the introduction of Russia's art in the European context, which is incredibly increases the audience of the Bolshoi Theater. Ballet "The Flames of Paris" was first delivered to the 15 th anniversary of the Great October Revolution in 1932. The creators were composer Boris Astafjevs, director and choreographer Sergei Radlov Basil Winona. Ballet script was written based on the novel-chronicle of Felix Gras Marseilles, "which tells of the overthrow of the monarchy in France in 1792. This ballet has been renewed several times until the early 60-ies existed in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater. But then almost all the choreography was lost, except for the famous pas de deux and several typical dances, including Dance of the Basques. In 2008, the New Stage of the Bolshoi Ballet, this recreated Alexei Ratmansky. Above the redistribution of the libretto with him worked Alexander Belinsky. March 31, the main parties will perform Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Denis Savin, Nina Kaptsova. Simultaneously broadcast ballet company Bel Air Mebia will also carry out and videotaped the performance - in the future it will be shown on TV channels Arte and Mezzo.

I second Odette's grand jete and the swan maidens' entrance in Act II. And Sergei Filin making his entrance by sliding down the staircase banister in Act II of Posokhov's Cinderella!!

Updated casting of the Swan Lake run: April 15th Herrera/Stiefel April 16th matinee Wiles/Stearns April 16th evening Kent/Gomes April 17th matinee Murphy/Carreno April 17th evening Dvorovenko/Beloserkovsky April 18th matinee Wiles/Stearns April 18th evening Part/Gomes

More information about casting from the Mariinsky site: http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/pressa/re...x_fest_balleta/.

Wheeldon's Swan Lake is back!!!

Parish is now listed as a Coryphée on the Mariinsky website.

No sadly. The 22nd will be Mats Ek's Giselle featuring the Ballet de L'Opera de Lyon. http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbi...10/4/22/1_1900/

Thanks for the heads up, chiapuris. According to Svetlana Zakharova's website she will perform Swan Lake on the 21st.

Thank you everyone for the wonderful reviews! Tuesday was the first time Shklyarov and Vishneva danced together.

In no particular order: Veronika Part Larissa Lezhnina Gelsey Kirkland Marianela Nunez Yulia Makhalina Antoinette Sibley Ekaterina Maximova Yevgenia Obraztsova Yuhui Choe Viktoria Tereshkina

Vladimir Shklyarov Nicolas Le Riche

According to the ABT calendar, Carreño will dance with Cojocaru.

*Ratmansky's Russian Seasons *Shurale (Mariinsky) *Osipova/Vasiliev in Don Quixote, Flames of Paris, anything really!

Ratmansky's Anna Karenina will open the X International Ballet Festival at the Mariinsky on April 15th. http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbi...10/4/15/1_2000/