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.

 

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

On 24 October, instead of the planned performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and an evening of piano music, at 15.00, the Mariinsky Theatre will now be staging a premiere of the opera Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Affair).
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 28 October
, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre will now commence at 18.00 and not at 19.00 as previously announced.
Tickets remain valid


On 29 October at the Mariinsky Theatre, instead of a recital there will be a concert performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride featuring Olga Borodina as Lyubasha.
Tickets remain valid

The performance of the ballet La Sylphide at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 30 October, has been moved to 31 October, starting at 19.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 31 October, has been moved to 30 October, starting at 17.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The management would like to offer its apologies