Yekaterina Kondaurova

• Recipient of the Benois de la Danse prize (2006).
• Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, in the category “Best female role in ballet” for Alma in Glass Heart (2008).

Born in Moscow.
Graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in 2001.
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2001.

Repertoire includes:
Giselle (Myrtha, Zulma);
Le Corsaire (Medora);
La Bayadère (Nikia, Gamzatti);
The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Konstantin Sergeyev;
The Nutcracker (Queen of the Snowflakes, Oriental Dance) – production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov;
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile);
Raymonda (Henrietta);
Don Quixote (Queen of the Dryads, Street Dancer, Act IV variation);
ballets by Michel Fokine – The Firebird (Firebird), Schéhérazade (Zobeide) and The Swan;
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Zarema);
Spartacus (Aegina) – choreography by Leonid Yakobson;
The Legend of Love (Mekhmeneh Bahnu);
Leningrad Symphony (Girl);
Walpurgisnacht (Nymphs) – choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky;
Carmen Suite (Carmen) – choreography by Alberto Alonso;
ballets by George Balanchine – Prodigal Son (Siren), Serenade, Symphony in C (II Movement), The Four Temperaments (Choleric), Jewels (Rubies), La Valse;
In the Night – choreography by Jerome Robbins;
Pas de quatre (Marie Taglioni);
ballets by William Forsythe – Steptext, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, Approximate Sonata;
Reverence – choreography by David Dawson;
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Marquise de Dorimaine) – choreography by Nikita Dmitrievsky;
Ondine (Queen of the Sea) – choreography by Pierre Lacotte;
Glass Heart (Alma) – choreography by Kirill Simonov;
ballets by Alexei Ratmansky – Cinderella (Stepmother), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Mare), Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina)
and Simple Things – choreography by Emil Faski.

She was the first performer of the roles of the Mare in Rodion Shchedrin’s ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky (2009) and Aegina in the ballet Spartacus, choreographed by Leonid Yakobson (2010).

She has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, China and the USA.

 

Upcoming performances:
15 September Spartacus
18 September Swan Lake
19 September The Little Humpbacked Horse

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 9 Sep 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

The concert featuring Nikolaj Znaider as listed on the playbill for 4 October will now take place on 1 October.
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The concert featuring Nikolaj Znaider as listed on the playbill for 7 October will now take place on 7 October.
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 24 October, instead of the planned performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and an evening of piano music, at 15.00, the Mariinsky Theatre will now be staging a premiere of the opera Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Affair).
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 28 October
, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre will now commence at 18.00 and not at 19.00 as previously announced.
Tickets remain valid


On 29 October at the Mariinsky Theatre, instead of a recital there will be a concert performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride featuring Olga Borodina as Lyubasha.
Tickets remain valid

The performance of the ballet La Sylphide at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 30 October, has been moved to 31 October, starting at 19.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 31 October, has been moved to 30 October, starting at 17.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The management would like to offer its apologies