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The Mercedes-Benz Classical Arts Festival 2012 is being held at the National Theater in Taipei. During the first part of the festival, on 31 October and 1 and 2 November there were performances of Swan Lake. As one of the soloists was ill, the casts were altered and
Yekaterina Kondaurova and Danila Korsuntsev appeared in the lead roles in all three performances to dazzling effect.
On 3 and 4 November the theatre hosted three performances of The Nutcracker with choreography by Vasily Vainonen and sets by Simon Virsaladze. The lead roles were danced by Yekaterina Osmolkina and Alexander Sergeyev (3 November and 4 November, matinee) and Olesya Novikova and Vladimir Shklyarov (4 November, evening).
The Mariinsky Ballet then departed for Tainan, where at the Tainan Municipal Cultural Center’s Performing Arts Hall on 6 and 7 November there will be two performances of Swan Lake with Yekaterina Kondaurova and Danila Korsuntsev then Oxana Skorik and Timur Askerov in the lead roles.
The Ballet Company will subsequently give several performances of Swan Lake in the South Korean capital of Seoul at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, the lead roles being performed by Oxana Skorik and Vladimir Shklyarov, Ulyana Lopatkina and Danila Korsuntsev and Olesya Novikova and Кim Кimin, a Mariinsky Theatre trainee who will be making his debut as Prince Siegfried. In an interview with the newspaper The Korea Times the dancer admitted to being “worried at dancing one of my favourite roles with this legendary Russian company in my native country. It is a tremendous responsibility, and I will endeavour to do all I can to dance my very best.” The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Pavel Bubelnikov.
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