#bolshoi

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Eva Sergeyenkova in Raymonda.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

On point: vintage ballet imagery.

[tikitania]

Sometimes I wonder if Olga Smirnova is even human….

📸: Alisa Aslanova, Photographer, Editor and Creative Director of the digital journal “Балет”

[vaganova-blog]

Arina Denisova as Raymonda

Credits to ilya_krylov_official

[balletomaneblog]

Not really sure why Kokoreva got the Nutcracker livestream for the second year in a row. Don't get me wrong, she's incredible as Masha and I know they originally wanted to have her dance with Potaptsev before Vyskubenko had to replace him, but I was disappointed that the casting was so similar. Why not Sevenard? She's a beautiful Masha. They also could have gotten Krysanova or Vinogradova or even Koshkareva?

[eopederson]

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1976 - [Большой театр, Москва, 1976 год.]

[qqquinoxtikk]

Comparison of Russian Henriettes (Act III variation)

Bolshoi:

1989 (with Natalia Bessmertnova as Raymonda)

2003

2019 (with Olga Smirnova as Raymonda)

Mariinsky:

2003

2018

2018

2014

And a bonus, the majestic Dorothée Gilbert, POB 2009 (who is retiring later this year!)

Another bonus: Chinara Alizade, 2005

[electronicsquid]

Ekaterina Maximova

(Leonid Zhdanov. 1968)