Lydia Wolgina

Lydia Wolgina

Lydia Wolgina (born January 19, 1937 in Tashkent ) is a Russian-German ballerina .

Life

Lydia Wolgina, née Grudzina, studied ballet at the Tashkent Choreographic Institute from 1948 to 1955 with Sinaida Afanasjewa using the Vaganova method . At the age of 16 she made her debut at the Tashkent Opera and Ballet Theater as Princess Florine in the ballet Sleeping Beauty .

From 1955 to 1962 she was the first ballerina at the State Opera and Ballet Theaters in Tashkent , Saratov , Chelyabinsk and Kujbischew .

She came to Berlin by marrying Jürgen Schneider in 1962. Lydia Wolgina was the first Russian ballerina in the history of the State Opera Unter den Linden . From 1962 to 1975 she worked there as the first solo dancer. At the Komische Oper she played the Bellastriga in Tom Schilling's choreography of Werner Egk's ballet “Abraxas”. She took over the main role Sleeping Beauty in the film of the same name on television in the GDR. Wolgina had many television appearances, u. a. Adagio white picture Swan Lake with Michail Gawrikow and The dying swan . She gave guest appearances in Japan , in the Landestheater Dessau , in the State Opera Dresden ; she also did choreographic work there. She did pedagogical work at the State Ballet School Berlin and the Paluccaschule Dresden and prepared young dancers for ballet competitions.

In 1970 she married the writer and painter Ulrich Pietzsch . Together with him, she provided expert advice on 53 ballet films, series titles Solo and Pas de deux for television in the GDR, for which she received the Silver Laurel award . They translated Russian ballet literature, a. a. Mikhail Fokin's Memoirs Against the Current . They published the anthology Die Welt des Tanzes in self-testimonials (both Henschelverlag). Wolgina wrote articles for the magazine Theater der Zeit , left the GDR with her husband in 1982 and took over Tatjana Gsovsky's training class at the Tanzakademie Berlin from 1982 to 1984 . In 1984 she founded her own Russian Ballet School in Berlin. She has lived in Wendland with her husband since 1989 .

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• In Russia: Odette / Odile, Giselle, Marie, Nikia, Sarema, Tai Choa, Tschitra (world premiere after Rabindranat Tagore, choreography: Natalia Danilowa).
• In Berlin: entire first repertoire: Odette / Odile ("Swan Lake"), Giselle ("Giselle"), Sleeping Beauty ("Sleeping Beauty"), Ballerina ("Petruschka"), Sarema ("Fountain of Bachtschisserai"), Mazurka ("Les Sylphides ”), artificial nightingale (“ Song of the nightingale ”).

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  Lydia Wolgina as Sleeping Beauty at the Berlin State Opera

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  Lydia Wolgina as Giselle at the Berlin State Opera

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  Lydia Wolgina as Odette in Swan Lake at the Berlin State Opera

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  Lydia Wolgina Mazurka in Chopiniana at the Berlin State Opera

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  Lydia Wolgina as Odette in Swan Lake at the Berlin State Opera

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  Lydia Wolgina as Sleeping Beauty at the Berlin State Opera

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  Rehearsal photo Lydia Wolgina

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  Lydia Wolgina with her husband Ulrich Pietzsch