Armand Duval finds himself at the auction of the famous courtesan Marguerite Gautier’s possessions after she passed away. She was Armand’s true love, and the vision of her belongings awakens vivid memories of their turbulent love story. Choreographer John Neumeier adapts Alexandre Dumas fils’s timeless novel The Lady of the Camellias for the stage with great sensitivity and emotional depth in his work of rare beauty. As the troubled courtesan Marguerite, superstar prima Svetlana Zakharova and Hamburg Ballet’s guest star Edvin Revazov as Armand bring the passionate drama to new emotional heights accompanied by Chopin’s fantastic score. Captured live in Moscow on December 6, 2015, for the Bolshoi Ballet's 2015/2016 cinema season. Encore screenings of this recording were released during the 2017/2018 and 2020/2021 cinema seasons.
Russian ballerina, leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. Until 1994, she studied at a choreographic school, then entered the Moscow Choreographic School (from 1995 - Moscow State Academy of Choreography), where her teachers were Lyudmila Kolenchenko, Marina Leonova, Elena Bobrova. After graduating in 2002, she was a soloist of the Kremlin Ballet Theater; since 2010, she has been dancing at the Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Since 2011 - leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theater; rehearsing under the guidance of Nina Semizorova. In 2011, she participated in the Russian television project Bolero (Channel One), where she, together with Alexei Yagudin, won first place. Since 2017, she participated in the show “You are super” and “Dancing” as an invited member of the jury.
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