Background
GEL’TSER, Yekaterina was born on November 14, 1876 in Moscow. Daughter of a ballet dancer.
GEL’TSER, Yekaterina was born on November 14, 1876 in Moscow. Daughter of a ballet dancer.
1894 graduate Moscow Theater College.
1894-1896 and 1898-1934 at Moscow Bol’shoy Theater. 1896-1898 at Saint St. Petersburg Mariinskiy Theater. 1910 on tour abroad (Brussels, Berlin, Paris, London, United States of America) propagandizing Russian ballet art
Also taught ballet; from 1934 tours of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Roles: Odetta in Tchaikovsky’s Lebedinoye ozero (Swan Lake). Aurora in Tchaikovsky's Spyashchaya krasavitsa (Sleeping Beaty).
Esmeralda in Puni’s ’’Esmeralda”. Mcdora in Puni and Adan’s "The Corsair”. The Fisherwoman in Grieg’s ’’Fast is Love”.
Tao Hoa in Glier’s Krasnyy mak (Red Poppy). Raymonda in Glazunov’s Raymonda.