Anna Muromtseva and Timofiy Bykovets in The Sleeping Beauty

Anna Muromtseva and Timofiy Bykovets in The Sleeping Beauty (La bella addormentata), music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, choreography by Marius Petipa.

Anna Muromtseva, the first soloist with the Ukrainian National Opera. She started training at ballet school Fors. At age of 15 entered Kyiv State Ballet School. At 2011 finished Kyiv State Ballet School and joined the ballet company of National Opera and Ballet theatre in Kyiv.

Timofiy Bykovets was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was trained at Kyiv National Dance College and Kharkiv Dance School (Ukraine). Career: Demi-soloist at the Ballet du Capitole – Corps de Ballet at the Ukrainian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Photos by Jack Devant © with kind permission of Teatro di San Carlo, special thanks to Giulia Romito