The Mikhailovsky Theatre opens its new season tonight with Semionova and Gomes in Giselle

Tonight the Mikhail­ovsky Theatre opens its 2012–2013 sea­son with Polina Semi­onova dan­cing the eponym­ous heroine in Gis­elle.

Semi­onova left to join the Ber­lin Staat­soper imme­di­ately after gradu­at­ing from the Bolshoi Bal­let Academy. Coin­cid­ent­ally, earlier this week Daniel Bar­en­boim, the Music Dir­ector of the Ber­lin Staat­soper, gave a press con­fer­ence at the Mikhail­ovsky where he announced that on 5–6 Septem­ber 2013, he will per­form there with the Staat­skapelle orches­tra. This will be his first per­form­ance at the theatre, as tonight’s Gis­elle will be the first time Semi­onova per­forms her ‘sig­na­ture role’ at the Mikhailovsky.

Semi­onova is now vis­it­ing as a guest from the Amer­ican Bal­let Theatre, where she became prima baller­ina just a few weeks ago, hav­ing left the Staat­soper after a ten-year col­lab­or­a­tion. Her Albrecht in tonight’s per­form­ance will be the ABT’s mag­ni­fi­cent Mar­celo Gomes.

Photo: Polina Semi­onova and Mar­celo Gomes in Gis­elle at the Mikhail­ovsky Theatre by Nikolai Krusser

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