Polina Semionova

Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) with her great partner Stanislav Jermakov. The Zurich Opera House Orchestra is conducted by Russian musical director Vladimir Fedoseyev acclaimed in this repertoire.

Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, has entered history due to his paintings of dramatic intensity. Caravaggio used to venture the threshold beyond the pale throughout his life. He was seen for admiration of his work and harsh opposition towards his extraordinary realism in painting human beings. Due to his passionate personality, he encountered more than several confl icts with people around him, sponsors, and the law. One of his foremost artistic twists was the extreme contrast between brightness and darkness, light and shadow. Mauro Bigonzetti is one of the leading choreographers of the Italian ballet which freed itself from the predominance of mainly classical opera companies in the 80's. He created his choreographies mainly for the Aterballetto in Reggio Emilia that helped him to fame and worldwide attention. In collaboration with the Staatsballett Berlin.

When he arrives in Saint Petersburg, at the age of 29, Marius Petipa is just an obscure dancer who fled western Europe to escape his debts. He is far from imagining that his engagement in the troupe of the Russian Imperial Ballet, then rather mediocre, will reveal him, forty years later, as one of the greatest choreographers in the history of dance. It is within the Bolshoi Kamenny theaters, then Mariinsky, in a still provincial capital where three productions a year are enough to satisfy an undemanding audience, that this native of Marseille will invent a new art of ballet, over the course of sixty of creations, between 1862 (La fille du pharaon) and 1895 (Le lac des cygnes).

Christine dirige la filiale d'une grosse agence de publicité. Belle et dominatrice, elle exerce une véritable fascination sur son assistante Isabelle, jeune femme ambitieuse mais naïve qui lui est totalement soumise. Perverse et manipulatrice, Christine se joue de son ascendant sur Isabelle, allant jusqu'à lui voler la vedette au sein de l'entreprise en prétendant être à l'origine d'une de ses idées, un concept original salué par l'ensemble des cadres de la multinationale. Mais Isabelle se rebelle et fait savoir que c'est elle, et non pas sa patronne, qui a trouvé comment promouvoir de manière originale ce nouveau produit. Pendant que son mentor l'entraîne dans une liaison trouble mêlée de désir et de jalousie, l'assistante échafaude un plan diabolique pour se venger...

After having an otherworldly vision, a spirited Indian-American boy convinces himself he's the reincarnation of Krishna. Turns out he's just gay.