Vyacheslav Lopatin
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lopatin is a Russian principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet.
Vyacheslav Lopatin was born in Voronezh, Russia, and studied at the Voronezh Choreographic College, after which he apprenticed at the Moscow Choreographic Academy. In 2003 he joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where he presently works under the tutelage of Boris Akimov. He was promoted to the rank of first soloist in October 2009, to leading soloist in September 2011 and appointed to the rank of principal dancer in July 2017.
In 2009 Lopatin and Natalia Osipova received a special prize from the jury of the Golden Mask award for their partnership in the Bolshoi's production of La Sylphide.
Repertoire
- La Sylphide : James
- Giselle : Albrecht, pas d'action
- Giselle : peasant pas de deux
- Coppélia : Frantz
- Swan Lake : Jester
- The Sleeping Beauty : Prince Désiré, Bluebird
- La Bayadère : Bronze Idol
- Don Quixote : Basilio
- Le Corsaire : pas d'esclaves
- Esmeralda : Acteon
- Paquita, grand pas : pas de trois
- La Fille mal gardée : Colas, Alain
- Marco Spada : Groom
- The Pharaoh's Daughter : Lord Wilson/Taor,
- The Nutcracker : Nutcracker Prince, Harlequin
- Romeo and Juliet : Mercutio
- The Golden Age : Compere
- Anyuta : Modest Alexeyevich
- Cipollino : Cipollino
- The Lady of the Camellias : Count N.
- The Bright Stream : Pyotr, Accordionist
- Flames of Paris : Philippe, Jerome
- Lost Illusions : Lucien
- Romeo and Juliet : Romeo
- The Taming of the Shrew : Gremio
- Hamlet : Yorick
- A Hero of Our Time : Old Woman/Yanko in "Taman", Pechorin, in "Princess Mary"
- Nureyev : Pupil/Letter to Rudi
- Ondine : the Fugitive
- The Winter's Tale : Florizel
- Petrushka : Petrushka
- Études
- Glinka Pas de Trois
- Tarantella
- Jewels : Emeralds, Rubies
- In the Upper Room
- Herman Schmerman
- Forgotten Land : Couple in Red
- Class Concert
- Jeu de cartes
- Russian Seasons : Couple in Yellow, Couple in Claret
- Misericordes
- Classical Symphony
- Remanso
- Chroma
- ''Faun''