The Pharaoh's Daughter
Skvortsov made his debut as the soloist of the Fourth Movement of George Balanchine's "Symphony in C" in 1999 and danced his first leading role in an evening-length ballet, Little Count Cherry in "Cipollino", in 2000, followed by the Poet in Michel Fokine's "Chopiniana" in 2001. He first danced Prince Siegfried in "Swan Lake" in 2002, followed by debuts as Count Albrecht in "Giselle", Lord Wilson/Ta-Hor in "The Pharaoh's Daughter", Claude Frollo in Roland Petit's "Notre-Dame de Paris" and the Ballet Dancer in Alexei Ratmansky's "The Bright Stream" in 2003. In 2004 Skvortsov first danced Jean de Brienne in "Raymonda" and Balanchine's "Agon", and in 2005 he performed the Miller in Léonide Massine's The Three-Cornered Hat, the Hero in Massine's "Les Présages" and Demetrius in John Neumeier's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Further debuts followed as Boris in Yuri Grigorovich's "The Golden Age" (2006), Don José in "Carmen Suite" (2007), James in "La Sylphide" (2008), Prince Désiré in "The Sleeping Beauty" (2008), Conrad in "Le Corsaire" (2009), Romeo in Grigorovich's production of "Romeo and Juliet" (2010), the title role in John Cranko's "Onegin" (2013) and Des Grieux in Neumeier's "The Lady of the Camellias" (2014). At the Bolshoi Ballet he was the first to perform the roles of Antoine Mistral in Ratmansky's "Flames of Paris" (2008), Lucien d'Hervilly in Yuri Burlaka's staging of the grand pas from "Paquita" (2008), Frantz in Sergei Vikharev's reconstruction of "Coppélia" (2009), Phoebus in "Esmeralda" (2009), staged by Burlaka and Vasily Medvedev, and My Father, My Hero in Maurice Béjart's "Gaîté Parisienne" (2019). In 2015 he danced the part of Pechorin ("Princess Mary" section) in the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov's "A Hero of Our Time". In 2019 he made his debut as Crassus in Grigorovich's "Spartacus".