Here is the Royal Family with, now, Princess Beatrix, the outgoing monarch.
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| Photo - Daily Mail |
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
King Willem-Alexander & Queen Maxima!
Congratulations to Holland on the inauguration of their new King and Queen! Looks like blue was the order of the day with Queen Maxima bringing out the massive Melloria Sapphire Tiara!
Here is the Royal Family with, now, Princess Beatrix, the outgoing monarch.
Here is the Royal Family with, now, Princess Beatrix, the outgoing monarch.
Sunday, 7 April 2013
London Weekend with The Mikhailovsky Ballet
Last weekend I spent in London watching my most favourite ballet of all Don Quixote and not only that 2 of the 3 performances were performed by the world's best Kitri and Basilio - Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev! DonQ is rarely performed in the UK so when it is on I have to go see them all if I possibly can, although the Royal Ballet are doing a new production in the Autumn so I will be in 7th heaven! The Mihailovsky Ballet comes from St Petersburg in Russia and whilst this was only their 3rd trip to the UK I really like them and hope they come again.
I started the weekend with Giselle and very lovely it was too...
I started the weekend with Giselle and very lovely it was too...
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| Man and wife team Oleysia Novikova & Leonid Sarafanov |
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| Friday's Giselle - it was lovely. |
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| Saturday's DonQ here the Don and Sancho Pancha take a bow |
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| Stars of the show Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev |
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| I was very lucky to get such good curtain call pics and to meet Natalia and Ivan afterwards at the Stage Door! |
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| The little ballerina statue in Covent Garden. |
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| I really like this sculpture. There is something restful about it. |
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| The plaque. |
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| At the Don Q Sunday matinee - Ekaterina Borchenko as Queen of the Dryads |
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| Oksana Bondareva and Denis Matvienko were the stars. Love the dress! |
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| Vladimir Tsal is the matador for the Fandango. |
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| How elegant Oksana looks standing en pointe for the curtain calls! She was an elegant dancer. |
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| Here with conductor Pavel Bubelnikov. |
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| Oksana and Denis again. Lovely tutu! |
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| Whose ears are these?!! |
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| Why Jimmy the Donkey who was Sancho Pancha's mount in the ballet! He was SO cute! He had to wait in his box for the evening performance which is how I came to see him - it certainly had passersby wondering what on earth was a donkey doing in the middle of theatreland LOL! |
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| The final performance on Sunday night - here Irina Kosheleva as Queen of the Dryads. |
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| Natalia and Ivan as the stars again. |
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| They are a very popular couple - and are engaged in real life too! |
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| A last farewell. Come back soon! |
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