The Nutcracker - Biographies
The Nutcracker
Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky
Nationaltheater
Wednesday, 26. December 2012
Stage Direction and Choreography |
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Bühnenbild und Kostüme |
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Conductor |
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Konsul Stahlbaum |
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Corps de ballet Vittorio was born in Treviso, Italy. He was trained at La Scala in Milano and at the Ballet Academy/Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung in Munich. In 2002 he became member of the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. Debut 2002/2003 Solo part in Six Dances (J. Kylián) Debut 2003/2004: Tom Thumb in Sleeping Beauty (Marius Petipa/Ivan Liška) Dawn (John Neumeier) Pas de quatre in The Nutcracker (Marius Petipa/John Neumeier) Serenade (Balanchine) Debut 2004/2005: Evan in Limb’s Theorem (William Forsythe) Debut 2005/2006: So nah, so fern (Itzik Galili) Boys Variation in Raymonda (Wright) Century Rolls (Bombana) Debut 2006/2007: Pas de six in Giselle (Wright) Pas de six in Swan Lake (Barra) A Tailor in The silver rose (Murphy) Lied von der Erde (MacMillan) Debut 2007/2008 Cambio d´abito (S. Sandroni), creation Debut 2010/2011 Pas de Six in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko) Camacho in Don Quijote (M. Petipa, new choreography by R. Barra, A. Gorski, Tradition) Debut 2011/12 Widow Simone in La Fille mal gardée (F. Ashton) |
Frau Konsul Stahlbaum |
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First soloist |
Marie, ihre Tochter |
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First Soloist Katherina Markowskaja was born in Kiev, Ukraine where she completed her training at the National Ballet Academy of Arts. As a student, she was cast in performances of the National Ballet of Kiev. At the age of sixteen, she accepted a scholarship of the Heinz-Bosl-Foundation, offered to her by Konstanze Vernon. Ms. Markowskaja graduated from the Ballet-Academy Munich and subsequently joined the Saxon State Opera Ballet Dresden under artistic director Vladimir Derevianko. She was promoted to the rank of first soloist two years later. In 1999, she received the Mary Wigman Award. Her repertory includes, among others, classical principal roles such as Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Giselle, Kitri (Don Quijote), Lise (La Fille mal gardée), Bianca (The Taming of the Shrew – Cranko) and Otilie (Wahlverwandtschaften – Schilling) as well as in John Neumeier's ballets Natalia and Princess Claire (Illusions – like Swan Lake), Marie (Nutcracker), Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Rosalind (As you like it) and Chloé (Daphnis and Chloé). Since 2010, she works as a freelance ballerina and trains with the Bavarian State Ballet. Since the beginning of the season 2012/13 she is a First Soloist. Debuts in Munich 2010/2011 Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (M. Petipa/ I. Liška) Debuts in Munich 2011/2012 Marie in The Nutcracker (J. Neumeier) Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko) Voices of Spring (F. Ashton) 1. Pas de deux in Goldberg-Variationen (J. Robbins 3. Pas de deux in Goldberg-Variationen (J. Robbins) Lise in La Fille mal gardée (F. Ashton) Debut 2012/2013 5. Solo-Girl in Choreartium (L. Massine) Pandora in Helden (T. Kohler) |
Louise, ihre Schwester, eine Ballerina |
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Principal dancer Lucia Lacarra, born in San Sebastián, knew from earliest childhood that she was born to be a ballerina. Whenever she saw pictures of the ballet school in Monte Carlo, sponsored by Grace Kelly, she cried because she still had no chance to dance. It was only when in her small Basque hometown a studio was opened that she was able to begin with lessons. She was ten at that time. Soon she was sent to a summer course directed by Rosella Hightower. There Lucia´s mother was strongly advised to support her daughter's obvious talent. So she was sent to San Sebastián to Mentxu Medel who worked with Lucia for three years in a completely unselfish way to prepare her for the audition to Victor Ullate´s school in Madrid. Already in her second year there she was given a contract to the Ballet de Victor Ullate. She was just fifteen when she danced Balanchine´s Allegro Brillante. In the course of four seasons this was followed by Concerto Barocco, Fokine´s Les Sylphides, four works by Hans van Manen, Nils Christe´s Before Nightfall, as well as four pieces by her mentor Ullate who gave her the necessary self-confidence. In 1994 she joined Roland Petit´s Ballets de Marseille as principal. Petit immediately entrusted her with the role of Esmeralda, with Patrick Dupont as her partner, in Notre Dame de Paris, replacing Dominique Khalfouni. From Roland Petit she learned above all to always be emotionally present on stage and she felt that in this company everything was danced in a somewhat more classical style. Within three years she danced the leading roles in seven ballets by Roland Petit, four of which were created on her, most notably Angélique in Le Guépard and, as partner of Nicolas Le Riche, in the famous Le Jeune homme et la Mort. In her pursuit of classicism she then decided to join the San Francisco Ballet. Under the direction of Helgi Tomasson she could dance Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty for the first time, i.e. some of the classical roles that a young ballerina has to master. The Cage, In the Night and Dances at a Gathering by Jerome Robbins became part of her repertoire, as well as six Balanchine ballets, from Serenade to Jewels, and Victor Gsovsky´s Grand Pas Classique, three ballets by Helgi Tomasson, MacMillian´s The Invitation, van Manen´s Black Cake, Nacho Duato´s Without Words, Roland Petit´s L'Arlésienne and Desdemona in Lar Lubovitch´s contemporary Othello. Lucia Lacarra has joined the Bayerisches Staatsballett with the 2002/2003 season in order to return towards the leading European choreographers. In the course of the first three months in Munich she danced Raymonda, Tatjana and Odette/Odile as well as the third pas de deux of In the Night, always together with her partner of many years, Cyril Pierre who has also joined the company as principal. Together they are guests in the big theatres around the world. She also danced in Portrait John Neumeier in Jupiter Symphony and In the Blue Garden. In the autumn 2003 she danced Louise in John Neumeier's The Nutcracker as well as Titania/Hippolyta in his A Midsummer Night's Dream and the title role in Ivan Liška's new production of The Sleeping Beauty. Lucia Lacarra was awarded with the Prix Nijinsky in Monte Carlo in December 2002, followed by the Prix Benois which she won in Moskau in April 2003. She was nominated in 2004 and 2005 for the Merkur Theaterpreis in Munich. In November 2005 she was awarded with the Spanish Premio Nacional de Danza 2005. This prize, endowed with 30.000,- Euro is one of the highest awards the Spanish government gives out. In 2007 she was announced honorary citizen and cultural messenger of her home town San Sebastián. In 2008, she was awarded the honorary title "Kammertänzerin" by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture. Debut 2003/2004 Marguerite in Lady of the Camellias (J. Neumeier) Brahms-Schoenberg Quartett (G. Balanchine) the second detail (W. Forsythe) Debut 2004/2005 Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (J. Cranko) Five Tangos (H. van Manen) Black Cake (H. van Manen), 3rd pas de deux Agon (G. Balanchine) Nikija in La Bayadère (P. Bart) Debut 2005/2006 Sophie in The Silver Rose (G. Murphy),creation Century Rolls (D. Bombana), creation Debut 2006/2007 Giselle (P. Wright) Medora in Le Corsaire (M. Petipa, I. Liška) The Woman in Song of the Earth (K. MacMillan) Debut 2007/2008 Ariel in Der Sturm (J. Mannes), creation Violakonzert/II (M. Schläpfer), creation Adagio Hammerklavier (H. v. Manen) Legende (J. Cranko), Pas de deux Debut 2008/2009 Zobeide in Shéhérazade (M. Fokine) Odette in Once Upon An Ever After (T. Kohler), creation Debut 2009/2010 Pas de deux 1 in Artifact (W. Forsythe) The French Ballerina in Série Noire - A choreographic murder mystery (T. Kohler) Debut 2010/2011 The Old Men and Me (H. van Manen) Princess Natalia in Illusions - Like Swan Lake (J. Neumeier) Debut 2011/2012 Dulcinea in Don Quijote (M. Petipa, new choreography by R. Barra, A. Gorski, Tradition) Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko) Princess Odette in Illusions - Like Swan Lake (J. Neumeier) The Oldest Sister in Las Hermanas (K. MacMillan) 3. Pas de deux in Goldberg-Variationen (J. Robbins) Debut 2012/2013 Solo-Girl 2. suit in Choreartium (L. Massine) Broken Fall (R. Meliphant) |
Fritz, ihr Bruder, ein Kadett |
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First Soloist Karen Azatyan, born in Armenia, started his dance education at the Yerevan Dancing Art State College and completed it in 2007 at the Dance Academy in Zurich. During his time in Zurich he received the second price at the competition “Tanz Olymp Berlin 2005” in the category classic variation and in the same year the Prix de Lausanne scholarship and won the young promising dancer award of the international ballet competition Varna in 2006. From the season 2007/2008 on, he has joined the Bavarian State Ballet as a member of the Corps de ballet and becam a soloist in autumn 2010. With the beginning of the season 2012/13 Karen Azatyan became First Soloist. Debut 2007/2008 Sebastian and Antonio in The Tempest (J. Mannes) Debut 2008/2009 Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (J. Cranko) Zugvögel (J. Kylián), creation Debut 2009/2010 Athlet in Les Biches (B. Nijinska) Debut 2010/2011 Albrecht in Once Upon an Ever After (T. Kohler) Daphnis in My Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé (T. Kohler) Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko) Count Alexander in Illusions - like Swan Lake (J. Neumeier) Basilio in Don Quijote (M. Petipa, new choreography by R. Barra, A. Gorski, Tradition) Debut 2011/2012 Fritz in The Nutcracker (J. Neumeier) Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko) Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty (M. Petipa / I. Liška) Voices of Spring-Pas de deux (F. Ahston) Gods and Dogs (J. Kylián) Pas de six and Russian dance in Swan Lake (R. Barra) Debut 2012/2013 Golden Idol in La Bayadère (M. Petipa/P. Bart) 4. Solo-Boy in Choreartium (L. Massine) Birthday Offering (F. Ashton) |
Ballettmeister Drosselmeier |
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Principal dancer |
Günther, Anführer der Kadetten |
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