The programme of the Mariinsky Ballet Company soloists’ gala concert includes gems from classical ballets spanning two centuries – pas de deux from the ballets Swan Lake, Le Corsaire and Giselle, the dazzling pas de six from Arthur Saint-Léon’s all but forgotten ballet La Vivandière, the captivating duet from the ballet Schéhérazade, Michel Fokine’s refined choreographic miniature The Dying Swan, the distinguished Grand pas classique to music by Daniel Auber and staged by Viktor Gzovsky and Anton Dolin’s Pas de quatre – a memoir in miniature of the great stars of the Romantic era: Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Elssler and Lucile Grahn. Choreography from the latter half of the 20th century is represented by Scotch Symphony, a recent premiere of the revival of George Balanchine’s ballet, the duet from Alexei Ratmansky’s ballet Cinderella and Kasian Goleizovsky’s famous miniature Russkaya, to be performed by Ulyana Lopatkina.
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