Valery Lagunov, was born on July 2, 1942 in Moscow, Russia, he played in "Sleeping Beauty" as "Prince", a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in which year?
Valery Lagunov Lagunov was born on July 2, 1942 in Moscow, Russia. In 1962 he graduated from the Moscow State Choreographic Academy where his teacher was Aleksey Yermolayev, and same year joined Bolshoi Ballet. He first appeared in "Scriabiniana" as "Garland" in 1962 and four next year played in "Sleeping Beauty" as "Prince". In 1966 he played as one of the shepherd boys in "the Nutcracker" and five years later appeared as "Archon" in "Icarus". In 1972 he participated in the "Swan Lake" where he played a role of "Evil genius" and the same year played a role as a "dance teacher" in "Cinderella". Three years later he appeared as "Albrecht" in "Giselle" and by 1976 played a role of "black man" in "Mozart and Salieri". The same year he was named "Merited Artist of the Russian Federation" and also appeared as "Don Juan" in "Love for Love". In 1979 he graduated from the Russian University of Theatre Arts and retired as a dancer in 1983. Since 1996 he teaches such future ballet dancers as Mikhail Lobukhin and Vladislav Lantratov.
Anna Karenina (Carlson) Anna Karenina is an opera in two acts by American composer David Carlson, based on the novel "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, commissioned by Florida Grand Opera to celebrate the 2007 opening of the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, co-commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. The libretto is by British director Colin Graham, originally contemplated for Benjamin Britten's opera commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre (the project was cancelled by the British after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia). Graham was to have directed the original production; after his death only weeks before the opera's opening night, the direction was taken over by Mark Streshinsky. The opera is in two acts with a prologue and an epilogue, lasting just over two hours.