Denis Firsov

Born in Leningrad.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 1992 (class of Professor Gennady Selyutsky).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 1992.

His repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (Two Youths);
Coppélia (Friends of the Prince);
The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Charmant, Prince Chéri, Prince Fleur de Pois) – revival of the 1890 production;
The Sleeping Beauty (the Princess’ Suitors, Bluebird) – revised version by Konstantin Sergeyev;
The Nutcracker (Waltz, Jester, Pas de trois);
Swan Lake (Prince Seigfried, Pas de trois, Neapolitan Dance);
Raymonda (Grand pas);
Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana (Nocturne, Seventh Waltz, Mazurka) and Pétrouchka (Dandies);
Le Sacre du printemps (Elders);
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Two Youths);
The Legend of Love (Ferkhad’s Friends);
Cinderella (Cavaliers) – choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev;
George Balanchine’s ballets Serenade, Symphony in C (VI Movement), The Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations, Jewels (Emeralds, Diamonds) and Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial);
Etudes;
Manon (Clients in Madame’s Hôtel Particulier) – choreography by Kenneth MacMillan;
Anna Karenina (Russian Dance); choreography by André Prokovsky;
Spring and Fall – choreography by John Neumeier;
Le Poème de l’extase – choreography by Alexei Ratmansky;
The Magic Nut (Spanish Rats);
Princess Pirlipat, or Worthiness Punished (Polish Grooms);
Ondine (Tarantella) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
The Golden Age (Foreign Team)
and Amour in the scene The Shepherd's Sincerity in the opera The Queen of Spades.

At the Theatre of the St Petersburg Conservatoire he has performed the role of Albrecht (Giselle).

Together with the Mariinsky Ballet Company he has toured to Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and China as well as throughout Russia and the CIS.