Nadezhda Gonchar

• Prize-winner at the Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition (1999, 1st prize).

Born in Kiev.
Graduated with distinction from the Kiev State School of Dance in 1996 and was engaged as a soloist at the Kiev National Shevchenko Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Her repertoire there included Myrtha (Giselle), Aurora and the Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), solos and variations from Paquita, Juliet (Romeo and Juliet, Serge Lifar’s staging) and the Queen of the Dryads (Don Quixote).
Joined the Mariinsky Ballet Company in 2002.

Her repertoire includes:
La Sylphide (the Sylph),
Giselle (Zulma, Myrtha, Monna, Peasants’ Pas de deux),
Pas de six from the ballet La Vivandière,
Le Corsaire (Gulnare, Trio of Odalisques),
La Bayadère (Trio of Shades),
The Sleeping Beauty (Diamond Fairy, Valiant Fairy, Candide Fairy, Sapphire Fairy, Silver Fairy, Princess Florine); choreography by Marius Petipa, revival of the 1890 production and Konstantin Sergeyev’s version,
The Nutcracker (Masha); staging by Mihail Chemiakin and choreography by Kirill Simonov,
Swan Lake (Two Swans, Friends of the Prince, Big Swans),
Raymonda (Variation in the Dream scene),
Don Quixote (Street Dancer, Queen of the Dryads, variation from Act IV, Flower-Girls),
Michel Fokine’s ballets Chopiniana (Nocturne, Prelude) and Le Spectre de la rose,
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Maria, Young Polish Women),
Spartacus (Menada); choreography by Leonid Yakobson,
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet’s Companion),
Pas de quatre (Lucile Grahn, Fanny Cerrito),
Carmen Suite (Fate); choreography by Alberto Alonso,
George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo (Terpsichore, Calliope), Prodigal Son (the Siren), Serenade, Piano Concerto No 2 (Ballet Imperial), Symphony in C (3rd and 4th Movements), The Four Temperaments (Choleric), Scotch Symphony, Tarantella and Jewels (Emeralds, Rubies),
The Nutcracker (Masha); production by Mihail Chemiakin, choreography by Kirill Simonov,
William Forsythe’s ballets Steptext and The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude,
Ondine (Giannina); choreography by Pierre Lacotte,
and Glass Heart (Gardener’s Wife); choreography by Kirill Simonov.

Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company to Great Britain, Germany, Korea and China.

Nadezhda Gonchar´s website: http://www.ngonchar.narod.ru

 

Upcoming performances:
22 September The Sleeping Beauty

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