Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers

During the festival, Trans-Siberian Art Festival 2018

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre - NOVAT

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
“The Carnival of Venice”

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Adagio from the ballet “Raymonda”
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Asami Maki

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
“Progetto Händel”
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti

Igor Frolov (1937-2013)
Divertimento

Bruno Moretti (b. 1957)
Duet from the ballet “Caravaggio”
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
“Zigeunerweisen”

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
“The Dying Swan”
Choreography: Mikhail Fokin

Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
“Méditation” from the opera “Thaïs”

Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897)
“The Dance of the Goblins”
Choreography: Johan Kobborg

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Svetlana Zakharova 
Prima ballerina 

Svetlana Zakharova, People’s Artist of Russia and laureate of the Russian State Prize, is one of the most distinguished ballerinas of our time. Born in Lutsk (Ukraine), she underwent her training at the Kiev Choreographic School and at the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg. On graduation in 1996, she was admitted to the Mariinsky Theatre and immediately cast in many leading roles. Her promotion to principal dancer followed a mere year later. For the next seven years it was the legendary Olga Moiseyeva who prepared the bulk of the company’s repertoire with her. Since 2003 Svetlana has been a principal with the Bolshoi Ballet. Here, she rehearses her roles with Ludmila Semenyaka, the former generation’s star ballerina. In addition, Svetlana dances as a guest-star with leading ballet companies such as the New York City Ballet, ABT, the English National Ballet and the companies of Paris Opera, Rome Opera and the Vienna State Opera. In 2008 she became the only foreign dancer to be elevated to “Etoile” of La Scala’s Ballet, Milan. She has received numerous international awards and honours and is president of a charity foundation for the support of the development of the art of ballet.

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Vyacheslav Lopatin
Principal dancer  

Born in Voronezh, Vyacheslav Lopatin graduated from the Voronezh State College of Choreography and the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. He has been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet working with master-repetiteur Boris Akimov since 2003, and became a Bolshoi Ballet Principal Dancer in 2017. His awards include a prize at the “Arabesque” Open Competition for Russian Ballet Dancers in Perm, 2004, a prize for the best performance of a choreography by Balanchine, a “Golden Mask” (Special Jury Prize) for the best duet (“La Sylphide” with Natalia Osipova) in 2009, and a “Nina Ananiashvili Star” in Tbilisi, Georgia, 2011. Amongst others, Vyacheslav Lopatin took part in the joint project between the Bolshoi Ballet and the Californian Segerstrom Center of Arts, dancing in ballets by Nacho Duato and George Balanchine. More recently at the Bolshoi he appeared as Lord Wilson/Ta-Hor in Pugni’s “The Pharaoh’s Daughter”, as Florizel in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Winter’s Tale” and as Offenbach in Béjart’s “Gaîté Parisienne”.

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Denis Savin
Leading ballet soloist   

Denis Savin is a Leading Soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet and Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (2016). He was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (class of Igor Uksusnikov). From his first steps on the Bolshoi stage in 2002, he was entrusted with leading parts in classics of the troupe’s repertoire under the guidance of his coaches Viktor Barykin and Alexander Petukhov. Moreover, he danced leading parts in the Moscow premiere of John Neumeier’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Bolshoi, in Ratmansky’s “The Bolt” and “Jeux de cartes”, as well as Romeo in Declan Donellan and Radu Poklitaru’s “Romeo and Juliet” (2003) and the title role in the world premiere of their “Hamlet” (2015). His awards include a prize at the festival “Moscow Debuts” for his Accordionist in the Bolshoi’s “The Bright Stream” (2003), and a Golden Mask for his part in Forsythe’s “Herman Schmerman” (2012).

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Jacopo Tissi 
Leading ballet soloist   

Born in Landriano near Pavia (Italy) in 1995, Jacopo Tissi graduated from the School of Dance at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in 2014. During the 2014/15 season he danced in the Vienna State Ballet under Manuel Legris. The following season he was engaged at La Scala under Makhar Vaziev and danced Prince Désiré in “Sleeping Beauty”, De Grieux in “L’Histoire de Manon”, Prince Charming in “Cinderella” and further parts in “The Nutcracker” and “Don Quichotte”. In 2017 he became Leading Soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet and started to train with Alexander Vetrov. His repertoire at the Bolshoi includes leading parts in the ballets “Etudes”, “Diamonds” from Balanchine’s “Jewels”, “Swan Lake”, “Le Corsaire”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Flame of Paris”, “The Pharaoh’s Daughter” and “Giselle”. Svetlana Zakharova invited him to Italy and the Czech Republic, amongst others, for her gala evening “Amore”, where he danced a duet from Mauro Bigonzetti’s ballet “Caravaggio” with her.