Ulyana Lopatkina and Igor Zelensky in scene from

Moscow, Russia. Mariinsky Theatre ballet dancers Ulyana Lopatkina as Odette and Igor Zelensky as Siegfried in a scene from Swan Lake ballet in January of 1998, when the Bolshoi and Mariinsky ballet companies switched stages for two weeks. The Bolshoi ballet chose Aram Khachaturian's Spartacus as their opening performance, while the Mariinsky ballet opened with Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Alexander Kosinets/ITAR-TASS

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