Anastasia Matvienko

• Prize-winner at the IV International Serge Lifar Competition (Kiev, 2002, silver medal)
Best Duet prize and Press Jury first prize at the International Ballet Competition in Varna (2004)
• Prize-winner at the X International Ballet and Choreography Competition (Moscow, 2005, gold medal)

Born in Sevastopol (Ukraine).
After graduating from the Kiev State School of Choreography in 2001, she joined the National Shevchenko Opera of Ukraine (Kiev) and was promoted to the rank of soloist six months later.
She was a prima ballerina at the Mikhailovsky Theatre from 2007–2009 where she performed in the ballets The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), La Bayadère (Nikia), The Nutcracker (Masha), La Sylphide (Sylph), Giselle (Giselle), Raymonda (Raymonda), Don Quixote (Kitri), Le Corsaire (Medora), Spartacus (Sabina; choreography by Georgy Kovtun) and Romeo and Juliet (Juliet).

Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2009.

Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
La Bayadère (Gamzatti) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Vakhtang Chabukiani;
The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora) – choreography by Marius Petipa (revival of the 1890 production);
The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Konstantin Sergeyev;
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile);
Don Quixote (Kitri);
George Balanchine’s Symphony in C (I Movement), Tarantella, Scotch Symphony, Serenade;
In the Night – choreography by Jerome Robbins.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and Norway.

 

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 2 Sep 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

The concert featuring Nikolaj Znaider as listed on the playbill for 4 October will now take place on 1 October.
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

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