Interviews – melmoth

Ervin Zagidullin Q&A (English)

September 17, 2018December 25, 2019

Ervin Zagidullin graduated from Vaganova Ballet Academy in July, having trained under Fethon Miozzi, and has since joined the crème de la crème of St Petersburg ballet in the Mariinsky Theatre’s corps de ballet. During his academic career, Ervin made something of a splash at several major ballet competitions. Most notably, he won third place at the 2016 Vaganova-PRIX and made it into the finals of this year’s Prix de Lausanne. Ervin’s key to success? Hard work and an unrelentingly positive attitude!

Эрвин Загидуллин (Russian)

September 17, 2018December 26, 2019

Эрвин Загидуллин окончил Академию Русского Балета имени А.Я. Вагановой (класс Фетона Миоцци) в Июле этого года и был принят в труппу Мариинского театра. Эрвин – лауреат конкурса Vaganova-PRIX, участвовал во Всероссийском конкурсе “Русский балет” и прошел в финал Prix de Lausanne. Секрет его успеха? Труд и неустанный оптимизм! Интервью melmoth.blog | English Version | Инстаграм Эрвина Эрвин, расскажите, пожалуйста, как начался Ваш […]

Q&A with Oscar Frame

September 10, 2017December 26, 2019

Upon graduating from Vaganova Ballet Academy in July, Oscar Frame found himself in a difficult, albeit enviable, position. The young Brit received job offers from both the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi – a happy predicament very few Vaganova graduates, let alone foreign trainees, ever find themselves facing. After some deliberation, Frame settled on the Bolshoi, […]

Q&A with Laura Fernandez-Gromova

February 11, 2017December 26, 2019

melmoth.co is an online archive of some of my more substantial articles and reviews. For daily updates, please follow my blog: melmoth.blog For those of you who follow ballet news closely, Laura Fernandez-Gromova should hardly need an introduction. In 2016, the eighteen-year-old Swiss took the Prix de Lausanne ballet competition by storm. Laura bagged three awards: a coveted Apprenticeship […]

Q&A with Lawrence Lambert

September 16, 2016December 26, 2019

Lawrence Lambert was an international trainee at Vaganova Ballet Academy for four years, graduating in 2016. He is about to embark on his first season with the Yacobson Ballet Company.

Q&A with Alisa Uzunova

August 12, 2016December 26, 2019

I’ve started conducting Q&A with Vaganova Ballet Academy students for my ballet blog. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time, and I’d like to thank Alisa for agreeing to answer my questions and being my first ever interviewee!