This September, the ballet company of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre will present several exciting debuts across three productions.

The most anticipated debut will be that of Grigory Botenkov, who will take on the leading role of the noble pirate Conrad in Adolphe Adam’s Le Corsaire (choreography by Yuliana Malkhasiants) on 26 September.

A graduate of the Krasnoyarsk Choreography College, Grigory has been a member of the theatre’s ballet company for five years. During this time, his repertoire has grown to include more than ten striking solo and principal roles, among them Hans (Giselle by Adam), Rothbart (Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky), Zuniga (Carmen by Bizet), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev), Carabosse (The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky), Sisyphus (Dante’s Catharsis), Diavolino (Catarina ou La Fille du Bandit by Pugni), and Abderakhman (Raymonda by Glazunov). Now, his repertoire will be enriched with the role of Conrad in Le Corsaire, one of the landmark premieres of the theatre’s 47th season.

In Le Corsaire, on 25 September Yelizaveta Boyarskaya will debut in the fiery Forban dance, while new Odalisques will be introduced by Anna Salenkova (on 26 September), Lolita Moshkova and Anna Ryabenko (on 27 September). The same evening, Veronika Latipova and Daria Saleeva will appear for the first time as the Birds of Paradise.

Other debuts this month include Nikolai Mashukov as the Rogue in Nikita Dmitrievsky’s Dante’s Catharsis (17 September), set to the music of contemporary composers, and Oleg Poselnikov, who, on 19 September, will appear for the first time in Alexey Rybnikov’s rock-opera ballet Juno and Avos, taking on two roles — Count Rumyantsev and the Governor of San Francisco.