Buddy wrote:
I said above that Zhanna Ayupova is on the Altynai Asylmuratova "Sleeping Beauty" video. She isn't. I just looked at it.
Apparently she is the Lilac Fairy on the Larissa Lezhnina version, according to a post I found..........
Buddy, the Lilac Fairy on the Lezhnina video is Yulia Makhalina.
The Lilacs on all current or recent commercial videos or DVDs of Kirov
Beauties are:
1965 Sizova version - Irina Bazhenova
1981 Kolpakova - Lubov Kunakova
1989 Assylmuratova - Kunakova (again)
1989 Lezhnina - Yulia Makhalina
ca 2007 'New Year's Eve Gala' DVD includes the Final Act with Osmolkina as Aurora - Ekaterina Kondaurova as Lilac
The ca-2003 documentary
Sacred Stage includes a bit of the Nereid Scene of Act II, starring Ayupova as Aurora -- as you've noted, Buddy -- and a very young Kondaurova as Lilac.
[Corrected from earlier guess of Pavlenko as Lilac.]
Other commercially-released films with Ayupova include:
* ca 1977
Bayadere starring Komleva - Ayupova is one of the two little girls accompanying Manu (the water-jug dance); look closely - Ayupova's face in unmistakeable.
* ca 2000 "Kirov Dances Nijinsky" - Ayupova stars in
Spectre de la Rose
* ca-1989 documentaty "The Leningrad Legend" tracing Makarova's return to Leningrad - the closing minutes show Makarova coaching Ayupova in
Swan Lake Black pdd.